Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Stellar Core-Collapse Events

Abstract

We estimate the stochastic gravitational-wave background arising from all stellar core-collapse events in the universe based on the gravitational-wave signal predictions of recent numerical simulations. We focus on waveforms from slowly or non-rotating stars and include rapidly rotating, highly massive progenitors as extreme case limits. Our most realistic estimates are > 100× below the sensitivity of third-generation terrestrial gravitational-wave detectors and likely weaker than cosmological contributions to the stochastic gravitational-wave background.