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Popcorn in the sky: Identifying primordial black holes in the gravitational-wave background
Eleni Bagui, Sébastien Clesse, Federico De Lillo +2
Primordial black holes (PBHs) are possible sources of a gravitational-wave background (GWB), detectable with the next observing runs of LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA. In case of a detection,…
Probing Cosmic Expansion and Early Universe with Einstein Telescope
Angelo Ricciardone, Mairi Sakellariadou, Archisman Ghosh +52
Over the next two decades, gravitational-wave (GW) observations are expected to evolve from a discovery-driven endeavour into a precision tool for astrophysics, cosmology, and fund…
The Science of the Einstein Telescope
Adrian Abac, Raul Abramo, Simone Albanesi +485
Einstein Telescope (ET) is the European project for a gravitational-wave (GW) observatory of third-generation. In this paper we present a comprehensive discussion of its science ob…
Bridging the micro-Hz gravitational wave gap via Doppler tracking with the Uranus Orbiter and Probe Mission: Massive black hole binaries, early universe signals and ultra-light dark matter
Lorenz Zwick, Deniz Soyuer, Daniel J. D'Orazio +6
With the recent announcement by NASA's \textit{Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032}, a priority flagship mission to the planet Uranus is anticipated. Here,…
Unbiased estimation of gravitational-wave anisotropies from noisy data
Nikolaos Kouvatsos, Alexander C. Jenkins, Arianna I. Renzini +2
One of the most exciting targets of current and future gravitational-wave observations is the angular power spectrum of the astrophysical GW background. This cumulative signal enco…
Analog vacuum decay from vacuum initial conditions
Alexander C. Jenkins, Jonathan Braden, Hiranya V. Peiris +3
Ultracold atomic gases can undergo phase transitions that mimic relativistic vacuum decay, allowing us to empirically test early-Universe physics in tabletop experiments. We invest…
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…
Can gravitational-wave memory help constrain binary black-hole parameters? A LISA case study
Silvia Gasparotto, Rodrigo Vicente, Diego Blas +2
Besides the transient effect, the passage of a gravitational wave also causes a persistent displacement in the relative position of an interferometer's test masses through the \emp…
Targeted search for the kinematic dipole of the gravitational-wave background
Adrian Ka-Wai Chung, Alexander C. Jenkins, Joseph D. Romano +1
There is growing interest in using current and future gravitational-wave interferometers to search for anisotropies in the gravitational-wave background. One guaranteed anisotropic…
Gravitational-wave event rates as a new probe for dark matter microphysics
Markus R. Mosbech, Alexander C. Jenkins, Sownak Bose +3
We show that gravitational waves have the potential to unravel the microphysical properties of dark matter due to the dependence of the binary black hole merger rate on cosmic stru…
New Horizons for Fundamental Physics with LISA
K. G. Arun, Enis Belgacem, Robert Benkel +138
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) has the potential to reveal wonders about the fundamental theory of nature at play in the extreme gravity regime, where the gravitatio…
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…
Cosmology and Fundamental Physics in the Era of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy
Alexander C. Jenkins
The advent of gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy has presented us with a completely new means for observing the Universe, allowing us to probe its structure and evolution like never…
Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Backgrounds: Current Detection Efforts and Future Prospects
Arianna I. Renzini, Boris Goncharov, Alexander C. Jenkins +1
The collection of individually resolvable gravitational wave (GW) events makes up a tiny fraction of all GW signals which reach our detectors, while most lie below the confusion li…
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…
CLASS_GWB: robust modeling of the astrophysical gravitational wave background anisotropies
Nicola Bellomo, Daniele Bertacca, Alexander C. Jenkins +5
Gravitational radiation offers a unique possibility to study the large-scale structure of the Universe, gravitational wave sources and propagation in a completely novel way. Given…
Ability of LISA to detect a gravitational-wave background of cosmological origin: the cosmic string case
Guillaume Boileau, Alexander C. Jenkins, Mairi Sakellariadou +2
We investigate the ability of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) to detect a stochastic gravitational-wave background (GWB) produced by cosmic strings, and to subsequent…
Bridging the Hz gap in the gravitational-wave landscape with binary resonance
Diego Blas, Alexander C. Jenkins
Gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy is transforming our understanding of the Universe by probing phenomena invisible to electromagnetic observatories. A comprehensive exploration of…
Detecting stochastic gravitational waves with binary resonance
Diego Blas, Alexander C. Jenkins
LIGO and Virgo have initiated the era of gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy; but in order to fully explore GW frequency spectrum, we must turn our attention to innovative techniques…
Nonlinear gravitational-wave memory from cusps and kinks on cosmic strings
Alexander C. Jenkins, Mairi Sakellariadou
The nonlinear memory effect is a fascinating prediction of general relativity (GR), in which oscillatory gravitational-wave (GW) signals are generically accompanied by a monotonica…
Primordial black holes from cusp collapse on cosmic strings
Alexander C. Jenkins, Mairi Sakellariadou
Primordial black holes (PBHs) are of fundamental interest in cosmology and astrophysics, and have received much attention as a dark matter candidate and as a potential source of gr…
Prospects for Fundamental Physics with LISA
Enrico Barausse, Emanuele Berti, Thomas Hertog +318
In this paper, which is of programmatic rather than quantitative nature, we aim to further delineate and sharpen the future potential of the LISA mission in the area of fundamental…
Probing the gravitational wave background from cosmic strings with LISA
Pierre Auclair, Jose J. Blanco-Pillado, Daniel G. Figueroa +8
Cosmic string networks offer one of the best prospects for detection of cosmological gravitational waves (GWs). The combined incoherent GW emission of a large number of string loop…
Projection effects on the observed angular spectrum of the astrophysical stochastic gravitational wave background
Daniele Bertacca, Angelo Ricciardone, Nicola Bellomo +5
The detection and characterization of the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB) is one of the main goals of Gravitational Wave (GW) experiments. The observed SGWB will be…