Wednesday, September 19, 2012

1209.4024 (Jean-Francois Dufaux)

Cosmological Backgrounds of Gravitational Waves and eLISA    [PDF]

Jean-Francois Dufaux
We review cosmological backgrounds of gravitational waves with a particular attention to the scientific potential of the eLISA/NGO mission. After an overview of cosmological backgrounds and detectors, we consider different cosmological sources that could lead to an observable signal. We then study the backgrounds produced by first-order phase transitions and networks of cosmic strings, assessing the prospects for their detection.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.4024

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