Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Stellar Core-Collapse Events

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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 more than one hundred times below the sensitivity of third-generation terrestrial gravitational-wave detectors and likely weaker than cosmological contributions to the stochastic gravitational-wave background.