Speaker
Description
I will first define the gravitational-wave background (GWB) and highlight the method we are using to detect it in the presence of correlated magnetic noise. I will then discuss astrophysical (compact binary coalescences) and cosmological (cosmic strings, first-order phase transitions) sources and report on the current constraints imposed from a non-detection during the last observing run of the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA collaboration. I will also address the question of a simultaneous estimation of astrophysical and cosmological stochastic GWB. Then I will present a search for circularly polarised stochastic GWB and its relation to early universe cosmology. Finally, I will discuss how the GWB can provide tests for gravity theories, including quantum gravity proposals.
