LISA Reconstruction Landscape for Metastable Cosmic Strings

arXiv:2607.28592 · hep-ph, astro-ph.CO, gr-qc · Submitted 2026-07-30 · Read on arXiv

Satyabrata Datta, Rome Samanta

hep-ph, astro-ph.CO, gr-qc

Submitted: 2026-07-30

Comments: 40 pages, 11 figures

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Benchmark — 30× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Anisotropy — 16× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Degeneracy — 14× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 12× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Metastability — 12× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Laser Interferometer Space Antenna — 4× in this paper
• Phase Transitions — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Bayesian Inference — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Domain Walls — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Synthetic Data Generation — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Topological Defects — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Anti-correlation — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Gravitational Wave Emission — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• pulsar timing arrays — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
• Upper Limits on the Isotropic Gravitational-Wave Background from Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's Third Observing Run
• The NANOGrav 15-year Data Set: Evidence for a Gravitational-Wave Background
• The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array III. Search for gravitational wave signals
• Search for an isotropic gravitational-wave background with the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array
• Searching for the nano-Hertz stochastic gravitational wave background with the Chinese Pulsar Timing Array Data Release I
• The NANOGrav 15-year Data Set: Search for Signals from New Physics
• Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
• Detecting a Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background in the presence of a Galactic Foreground and Instrument Noise
• Spectral separation of the stochastic gravitational-wave background for LISA: observing both cosmological and astrophysical backgrounds
• Spectral separation of the stochastic gravitational-wave background for LISA in the context of a modulated Galactic foreground
• Observationally driven Galactic double white dwarf population for LISA
• Populations of double white dwarfs in Milky Way satellites and their detectability with LISA
• Confusion noise from Galactic binaries for Taiji
• A Practical Theorem on Gravitational Wave Backgrounds
• The astrophysical gravitational wave stochastic background
• Stochastic gravitational wave background from stellar origin binary black holes in LISA
• Astrophysical Uncertainties in the Gravitational-Wave Background from Stellar-Mass Compact Binary Mergers
• Decay of Metastable Topological Defects
• The spontaneous breaking of a metastable string

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