UK Cosmology Meeting

Session

Morning Session 2

25 Mar 2026, 11:30

Anne-Christine Davis & Edmund Copeland

3. Plenary Talk: Repeated gravitational wave bursts from cosmic strings

Danièle Steer

25/03/2026, 11:30

50 years after Tom Kibble’s seminal paper on cosmic strings, research on strings remains active and their GW signatures are currently being searched for by, for instance, the LVK and PTA collaborations. While much focus is on the stochastic GW background from the ensemble of cosmic strings, cosmic string loops also generate short duration GW bursts with a characteristic waveform. In this talk...