Cosmological phase transitions: From perturbative particle physics to gravitational waves

P Athron, C Balázs, A Fowlie, L Morris, L Wu - Progress in Particle and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Gravitational waves (GWs) were recently detected for the first time. This revolutionary
discovery opens a new way of learning about particle physics through GWs from first-order …

Quantum gravity phenomenology at the dawn of the multi-messenger era—A review

A Addazi, J Alvarez-Muniz, RA Batista… - Progress in Particle and …, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

Gravitational-wave physics and astronomy in the 2020s and 2030s

M Bailes, BK Berger, PR Brady, M Branchesi… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The 100 years since the publication of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity saw
significant development of the understanding of the theory, the identification of potential …

Gravitational waves from extreme-mass-ratio systems in astrophysical environments

V Cardoso, K Destounis, F Duque, RP Macedo… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We establish a generic, fully relativistic formalism to study gravitational-wave emission by
extreme-mass-ratio systems in spherically symmetric, nonvacuum black hole spacetimes …

New physics from the polarized light of the cosmic microwave background

E Komatsu - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
The current cosmological model requires new physics beyond the standard model of
elementary particles and fields, such as dark matter and dark energy. Their nature is …

Black holes in galaxies: Environmental impact on gravitational-wave generation and propagation

V Cardoso, K Destounis, F Duque, RP Macedo… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We introduce a family of solutions of Einstein's gravity minimally coupled to an anisotropic
fluid, describing asymptotically flat black holes with “hair” and a regular horizon. These …

The missing link in gravitational-wave astronomy: discoveries waiting in the decihertz range

MA Sedda, CPL Berry, K Jani… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The gravitational-wave astronomical revolution began in 2015 with LIGO's observation of the
coalescence of two stellar-mass black holes. Over the coming decades, ground-based …

Measuring the spectrum of primordial gravitational waves with CMB, PTA and Laser Interferometers

P Campeti, E Komatsu, D Poletti… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the possibility of measuring the primordial gravitational wave (GW) signal
across 21 decades in frequencies, using the cosmic microwave background (CMB), pulsar …

Asteroids for gravitational-wave detection

MA Fedderke, PW Graham, S Rajendran - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
A major challenge for gravitational-wave (GW) detection in the μ Hz band is engineering a
test mass (TM) with sufficiently low acceleration noise. We propose a GW detection concept …

How does a dark compact object ringdown?

E Maggio, L Buoninfante, A Mazumdar, P Pani - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
A generic feature of nearly out-of-equilibrium dissipative systems is that they resonate
through a set of quasinormal modes. Black holes—the absorbing objects par excellence …