Speaker
Mr
Alex Jenkins
(King's College London)
Description
With gravitational-wave interferometry firmly established as a new field of astronomy, one of the most exciting targets for future observations is the *stochastic gravitational-wave background* (SGWB). Comprised of a large number of distant, unresolved sources, this background carries much information about the early universe, and will soon become a powerful cosmological probe.
While the SGWB is commonly treated as isotropic, we relax this assumption and, by analogy with the CMB, develop a framework for computing analytical predictions of the full anisotropic background. As a concrete example, we consider the SGWB generated by a network of cosmic strings.
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Primary author
Mr
Alex Jenkins
(King's College London)
