Cosmological backgrounds of gravitational waves and eLISA/NGO: phase transitions, cosmic strings and other sources

By P. Bin'etruy, A. Boh'e, C. Caprini, J. Dufaux. 2012

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We review several cosmological backgrounds of gravitational waves accessible to direct-detection experiments, with a special emphasis on those backgrounds due to first-order phase transitions and networks of cosmic (super-)strings. For these two particular sources, we revisit in detail the computation of the gravitational wave background and improve the results of previous works in the literature. We apply our results to identify the scientific potential of the NGO/eLISA mission of ESA regarding the detectability of cosmological backgrounds.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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• Stochastic gravitational wave background from smoothed cosmic string loops (2017, background): “[33] Pierre Binetruy, Alejandro Bohe, Chiara Caprini, and Jean-Francois Dufaux, “Cosmological Backgrounds of Gravitational Waves and eLISA/NGO: Phase Transitions, Cosmic Strings and Other Sources,” JCAP 1206, 027 (2012), arXiv:1201.”
• New limits on cosmic strings from gravitational wave observation (2017, background): “[13] Pierre Binetruy, Alejandro Bohe, Chiara Caprini, and Jean-Francois Dufaux, “Cosmological Backgrounds of Gravitational Waves and eLISA/NGO: Phase Transitions, Cosmic Strings and Other Sources,” JCAP 1206, 027 (2012), arXiv:1201.”
• Science with the space-based interferometer eLISA. II: gravitational waves from cosmological phase transitions (2015, background): “See [6] for a very similar analysis in the 2012 eLISA configuration (also called NGO at the time).”
• Cosmological Magnetic Fields: Their Generation, Evolution and Observation (2013, background): “Interestingly, for the electroweak symmetry breaking scale, T∗ ∼ 100 GeV, this corresponds to mili-Hertz frequencies which are in the optimal sensitivity range of the planned space antenna eLISA (european Laser Interferometric Space Antenna) (Binetruy et al 2012).”
• Science with the space-based interferometer eLISA. III: probing the expansion of the universe using gravitational wave standard sirens (2016, background): “This frequency band is unexplored so far, and very rich with both astrophysical and cosmological sources (for a summary, see [12, 13]).”
• Doing Science with eLISA: Astrophysics and Cosmology in the Millihertz Regime (2012, background): “Various sources of gravitational wave background of cosmological origin are presented in detail in Binétruy et al. (2012).”