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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…
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…
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…
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…
"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…
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…
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…
Improved reconstruction of a stochastic gravitational wave background with LISA
Raphael Flauger, Nikolaos Karnesis, Germano Nardini +3
We present a data analysis methodology for a model-independent reconstruction of the spectral shape of a stochastic gravitational wave background with LISA. We improve a previously…
Maximum likelihood map-making with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
Carlo R. Contaldi, Mauro Pieroni, Arianna I. Renzini +5
Given the recent advances in gravitational-wave detection technologies, the detection and characterisation of gravitational-wave backgrounds (GWBs) with the Laser Interferometer Sp…
Phase decoherence of gravitational wave backgrounds
Aoibheann Margalit, Carlo R. Contaldi, Mauro Pieroni
Metric perturbations affect the phase of gravitational waves as they propagate through the inhomogeneous universe. This effect causes Stochastic Gravitational Wave Backgrounds (SGW…
Foreground cleaning and template-free stochastic background extraction for LISA
Mauro Pieroni, Enrico Barausse
Based on the rate of resolved stellar origin black hole and neutron star mergers measured by LIGO and Virgo, it is expected that these detectors will also observe an unresolved Sto…
Measuring the net circular polarization of the stochastic gravitational wave background with interferometers
Valerie Domcke, Juan Garcia-Bellido, Marco Peloso +4
Parity violating interactions in the early Universe can source a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) with a net circular polarization. In this paper, we study possible…
Constraining axion inflation with gravitational waves across 29 decades in frequency
Peter Adshead, John T. Giblin, Mauro Pieroni +1
We demonstrate that gravitational waves generated by efficient gauge preheating after axion inflation generically contribute significantly to the effective number of relativistic d…
Constraining axion inflation with gravitational waves from preheating
Peter Adshead, John T. Giblin, Mauro Pieroni +1
We study gravitational wave production from gauge preheating in a variety of inflationary models, detailing its dependence on both the energy scale and the shape of the potential.…
Reconstructing the spectral shape of a stochastic gravitational wave background with LISA
Chiara Caprini, Daniel G. Figueroa, Raphael Flauger +5
We present a set of tools to assess the capabilities of LISA to detect and reconstruct the spectral shape and amplitude of a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB). We fir…
An Hamilton-Jacobi formulation of anisotropic inflation
Francesco Cicciarella, Joel Mabillard, Mauro Pieroni +1
Classifying inflationary scenarios according to their scaling properties is a powerful way to connect theory with observations. A useful tool to make such a classification is the b…
Black hole formation from a general quadratic action for inflationary primordial fluctuations
Guillermo Ballesteros, Jose Beltran Jimenez, Mauro Pieroni
The most up to date femto- and micro-lensing constraints indicate that primordial black holes of and , respectively, may constitute a…