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Inflationary Particle Production and the Swampland
Dieter Lüst, Joaquin Masias, Mauro Pieroni +1
We investigate the impact of particle production during inflation in scenarios where an infinite tower of states features a mass scale that decreases exponentially along the inflat…
Constraining primordial curvature perturbations with present and future GW detectors
Mauro Pieroni
Primordial scalar curvature perturbations (), typically probed on large cosmological scales via CMB and LSS observations, can be significantly enhanced on smaller scales by vari…
Gravitational waves from cosmic strings in LISA: reconstruction pipeline and physics interpretation
Jose J. Blanco-Pillado, Yanou Cui, Sachiko Kuroyanagi +6
We initiate the LISA template databank for stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds sourced by cosmic strings. We include two templates, an analytical template, which enables more…
Gravitational waves from first-order phase transitions in LISA: reconstruction pipeline and physics interpretation
Chiara Caprini, Ryusuke Jinno, Marek Lewicki +6
We develop a tool for the analysis of stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds from cosmological first-order phase transitions with LISA: we initiate a template databank for these…
LISA Definition Study Report
Monica Colpi, Karsten Danzmann, Martin Hewitson +108
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is the first scientific endeavour to detect and study gravitational waves from space. LISA will survey the sky for Gravitational Waves…
Probing primordial black holes at high redshift with future gravitational wave detector
Paolo Marcoccia, Germano Nardini, Mauro Pieroni
We analyze the detection prospects for potential Primordial Black Hole Binary (PBHB) populations buried in the Stellar-Origin Black Hole Binary (SOBHB) population inferred by the L…
Simulation-based inference for stochastic gravitational wave background data analysis
James Alvey, Uddipta Bhardwaj, Valerie Domcke +2
The next generation of space- and ground-based facilities promise to reveal an entirely new picture of the gravitational wave sky: thousands of galactic and extragalactic binary si…
Cosmological Background Interpretation of Pulsar Timing Array Data
Daniel G. Figueroa, Mauro Pieroni, Angelo Ricciardone +1
We discuss the interpretation of the detected signal by Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) observations as a gravitational wave background (GWB) of cosmological origin. We combine NANOGrav…
Stochastic gravitational wave background from stellar origin binary black holes in LISA
Stanislav Babak, Chiara Caprini, Daniel G. Figueroa +7
We use the latest constraints on the population of stellar origin binary black holes (SOBBH) from LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA (LVK) observations, to estimate the stochastic gravitational wave…
Stochastic gravitational wave background reconstruction for a non-equilateral and unequal-noise LISA constellation
Olaf Hartwig, Marc Lilley, Martina Muratore +1
We explore the impact of choosing different sets of Time-Delay Interferometry (TDI) variables for detecting and reconstructing Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB) signa…
Science with the Einstein Telescope: a comparison of different designs
Marica Branchesi, Michele Maggiore, David Alonso +73
The Einstein Telescope (ET), the European project for a third-generation gravitational-wave detector, has a reference configuration based on a triangular shape consisting of three…
Testing gravitational wave propagation with multiband detections
Tessa Baker, Enrico Barausse, Anson Chen +3
Effective field theories (EFT) of dark energy (DE) -- built to parameterise the properties of DE in an agnostic manner -- are severely constrained by measurements of the propagatio…
Cosmology with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
Pierre Auclair, David Bacon, Tessa Baker +177
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) has two scientific objectives of cosmological focus: to probe the expansion rate of the universe, and to understand stochastic gravita…
Gravitational Waves from Double White Dwarfs as probes of the Milky Way
Maria Georgousi, Nikolaos Karnesis, Valeriya Korol +2
Future gravitational wave detectors, such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (\textit{LISA}), will be able to resolve a significant number of the ultra compact stellar-mass…
Detectability and parameter estimation of stellar origin black hole binaries with next generation gravitational wave detectors
Mauro Pieroni, Angelo Ricciardone, Enrico Barausse
We consider stellar-origin black hole binaries, which are among the main astrophysical sources for next generation gravitational wave (GW) detectors such as the Einstein Telescope…
Measuring the propagation speed of gravitational waves with LISA
Tessa Baker, Gianluca Calcagni, Anson Chen +8
The propagation speed of gravitational waves, , has been tightly constrained by the binary neutron star merger GW170817 and its electromagnetic counterpart, under the assumpti…
"Stairway to Heaven" -- Spectroscopy of Particle Couplings with Gravitational Waves
Daniel G. Figueroa, Adrien Florio, Nicolas Loayza +1
We discuss the possibility to measure particle couplings with stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds (SGWBs). Under certain circumstances a sequence of peaks of different amplit…
Probing Anisotropies of the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background with LISA
Nicola Bartolo, Daniele Bertacca, Robert Caldwell +19
We investigate the sensitivity of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) to the anisotropies of the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB). We first discuss the mai…
Detecting primordial features with LISA
Jacopo Fumagalli, Mauro Pieroni, Sébastien Renaux-Petel +1
Oscillations in the frequency profile of the stochastic gravitational wave background are a characteristic prediction of small-scale features during inflation. In this paper we pre…
Quantum gravity phenomenology at the dawn of the multi-messenger era -- A review
A. Addazi, J. Alvarez-Muniz, R. Alves Batista +157
The exploration of the universe has recently entered a new era thanks to the multi-messenger paradigm, characterized by a continuous increase in the quantity and quality of experim…
Hamilton-Jacobi formalism for Generalized Chaplygin Gas models
Yordan Ignatov, Mauro Pieroni
In this work we discuss the application of the Hamilton-Jacobi formalism on the scalar field implementation of Generalized Chaplygin Gas models. This corresponds to a Generalised B…
The Effect of Mission Duration on LISA Science Objectives
Pau Amaro Seoane, Manuel Arca Sedda, Stanislav Babak +38
The science objectives of the LISA mission have been defined under the implicit assumption of a 4 yr continuous data stream. Based on the performance of LISA Pathfinder, it is now…
Characterization of the stochastic signal originating from compact binaries populations as measured by LISA
Nikolaos Karnesis, Stanislav Babak, Mauro Pieroni +2
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, scheduled for launch in the early 2030s, is a gravitational wave observatory in space designed to detect sources emitting in…
Measuring Parity Violation in the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background with the LISA-Taiji network
Giorgio Orlando, Mauro Pieroni, Angelo Ricciardone
Parity violation is a powerful observable to distinguish a cosmological background of Gravitational Waves (GWs) from an astrophysical one. Planar single GW interferometers, both on…