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Astrophysical Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2020-01-28 v1

Abstract

The stochastic gravitational wave background produced by supernovas, magnetars and merger of binaries constituted by a pair of compact objects is reviewed and updated. The merger of systems composed by two black holes dominates by far the background signal, whose amplitude in the range 10-100 Hz is above the sensitivity of the planned Einstein laser interferometer (ET). The background signal at 25 Hz estimated by the LIGO-VIRGO collaboration, based on the available merger detection data, is in good agreement with the present theoretical predictions.

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@article{arxiv.2001.09663,
  title  = {Astrophysical Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background},
  author = {José Antonio de Freitas Pacheco},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.09663},
  year   = {2020}
}

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Article to appear in Astronomische Nachrichten special issue (10 pages, 5 figures)

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