The Gravitational Wave Background From Coalescing Compact Binaries: A
  New Method
  Gravitational waves are perturbations in the spacetime that propagate at the
speed of light. The study of such phenomenon is interesting because many
cosmological processes and astrophysical objects, such as binary systems, are
potential sources of gravitational radiation and can have their emissions
detected in the near future by the next generation of interferometric
detectors. Concerning the astrophysical objects, an interesting case is when
there are several sources emitting in such a way that there is a superposition
of signals, resulting in a smooth spectrum which spans a wide range of
frequencies, the so-called stochastic background. In this paper, we are
concerned with the stochastic backgrounds generated by compact binaries (i.e.
binary systems formed by neutron stars and black holes) in the coalescing
phase. In particular, we obtain such backgrounds by employing a new method
developed in our previous studies.
