Cosmological and High Energy Physics implications from gravitational-wave background searches in LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA's O1-O4a runs

arXiv:2510.26848 · gr-qc, astro-ph.CO, hep-th · Submitted 2025-10-30 · Read on arXiv

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

Submitted: 2025-10-30

Updated: 2026-10-23

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