Thursday, January 5, 2012

1201.0983 (Pierre Binétruy et al.)

Cosmological Backgrounds of Gravitational Waves and eLISA/NGO: Phase Transitions, Cosmic Strings and Other Sources    [PDF]

Pierre Binétruy, Alejandro Bohé, Chiara Caprini, Jean-François Dufaux
We review the main cosmological backgrounds of gravitational waves accessible to detectors in space sensitive to the range $10^{-4}$ to $10^{-1}$ Hz, with a special emphasis on those backgrounds due to phase transitions or networks of cosmic strings. We apply this to identify the scientific potential of the NGO/eLISA mission of ESA, regarding the detectability of such cosmological backgrounds.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.0983

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