Orateur
Jose Juan Blanco-Pillado
(IKERBASQUE and UPV/EHU)
Description
I will give a brief introduction to the theory of cosmic strings in the early universe and discuss recent progress in our understanding of the evolution of a cosmic string network using Nambu-Goto simulations. I will then discuss the production of gravitational waves from this network and how this leads to a prediction of an stochastic background of gravitational waves covering a wide range of frequencies. Finally, I will also discuss the implications of these predictions for the gravitational wave observations at the PTA range as well as the LIGO and LISA observatories.
Author
Jose Juan Blanco-Pillado
(IKERBASQUE and UPV/EHU)
