Gravitational Waves: The Theorist’s Swiss Knife

Mairi Sakellariadou

doi:10.3390/universe8020132

Gravitational Waves: The Theorist’s Swiss Knife

Mairi Sakellariadou^*

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King's College London

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Abstract

Gravitational waves provide a novel and powerful way to test astrophysical models of compact objects, early universe processes, beyond the Standard Model particle physics, dark matter candidates, Einstein’s theory of General Relativity and extended gravity models, and even quantum gravity candidate theories. A short introduction to the gravitational-wave background and the method we are using to detect it will be presented. Constraints on various astrophysical/cosmological models from the non-detectability of the gravitational-wave background will be discussed. Gravitational waves from transients will be highlighted and their physical implications will be summarised.

Original language	English
Article number	132
Journal	Universe
Volume	8
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/universe8020132
Publication status	Published - Feb 2022

Keywords

Axion-like particles
Compact binaries
Cosmic strings
Gravitational waves
Gravitational-wave transients
Modified gravity
Parity violation
Phase transitions
Primordial black holes
Quantum gravity
Stochastic gravitational-wave background

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