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Gravitational waves from defect-driven phase transitions: domain walls
Simone Blasi, Ryusuke Jinno, Thomas Konstandin +2
We discuss the gravitational wave spectrum produced by first-order phase transitions seeded by domain wall networks. This setup is important for many two-step phase transitions as…
Gravitational Waves from Current-Carrying Cosmic Strings
Pierre Auclair, Simone Blasi, Vedran Brdar +1
Cosmic strings are predicted by many Standard Model extensions involving the cosmological breaking of a symmetry with nontrivial first homotopy group and represent a potential sour…
Has NANOGrav found first evidence for cosmic strings?
Simone Blasi, Vedran Brdar, Kai Schmitz
The North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) has recently reported strong evidence for a stochastic common-spectrum process affecting the pulsar timi…