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Weak gravitational lensing has several important effects on the cosmic microwave background (CMB): it changes the CMB power spectra, induces non-Gaussianities, and generates a B-mode polarization signal that is an important source of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Antony Lewis , Anthony Challinor

Gravitational lensing, caused by matter perturbations along the line-of-sight to the last scattering surface, can modify the shape of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy power spectrum. We discuss the detectability of lensing…

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We introduce a novel approach for detecting gravitational waves through their influence on the shape of resolved astronomical objects. This method, complementary to pulsar timing arrays and astrometric techniques, explores the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-22 Giorgio Mentasti , Carlo R. Contaldi

There is a growing expectation that the gravitational wave detectors will start probing the stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds in the following years. We explore the spectral shapes of gravitational waves induced to second order by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Ioannis Dalianis , Konstantinos Kritos

In standard inflationary cosmology, scalar and tensor perturbations grew as the Universe expanded and froze when their wavelengths exceeded the Hubble horizon, producing a tell-tale signature in the fluctuation spectrum and amplitude of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-21 Fulvio Melia

We review current observational constraints on the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), with a particular emphasis on detecting the signature of primordial gravitational waves. We present an analytic solution to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Brian G. Keating , Alexander G. Polnarev , Nathan J. Miller , Deepak Baskaran

Primordial gravitational waves are a crucial prediction of inflation theory, and their detection through their imprints on the cosmic microwave background is actively being pursued. However, these attempts have not yet been successful. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-06 Yan-Heng Yu , Sai Wang

Since the gravitational waves were detected by LIGO and Virgo, it has been promising that lots of information about the primordial Universe could be learned by further observations on stochastic gravitational waves background. The studies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 Jing-Zhi Zhou , Xukun Zhang , Qing-Hua Zhu , Zhe Chang

We use the induced geometry on the two dimensional transverse cross section of a photon beam propagating on a perturbed Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) spacetime to find the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) photon distribution over a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 Ali Kaya

We investigate the non-Gaussianity of second-order matter density perturbations induced by primordial gravitational waves (GWs). These tensor-induced scalar modes arise from local fluctuations in the GWs energy density, which is quadratic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Mariam Abdelaziz , Pritha Bari , Sabino Matarrese , Angelo Ricciardone

We study cosmological tensor perturbations induced by second-order scalar perturbations in the presence of anisotropic non-Gaussianity. This class of induced tensor modes arises on superhorizon scales through the intrinsic quadrupole…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-13 Atsuhisa Ota

This paper details a description of the pattern of galaxy image distortion over the entire sky caused by the gravitational lensing which is the result of large scale inhomogeneities in our universe. We present a tensor spherical harmonic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Albert Stebbins

Probing primordial curvature perturbations on small scales, beyond those accessible using cosmic microwave background (CMB) primary anisotropies and Lyman-$\alpha$ forest data, remains a major open challenge. Current constraints on the…

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Gravitational waves from inspiraling compact binaries provide direct measurements of luminosity distances and serve as a powerful probe of the high-redshift Universe. In addition to their role as standard sirens, they offer an opportunity…

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Vector perturbations sourced by topological defects can generate rotations in the lensing of background galaxies. This is a potential smoking gun for the existence of defects since rotation generates a curl-like component in the weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-05 Daniel B. Thomas , Carlo R. Contaldi , Joao Magueijo

The primordial B-modes component of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization is a promising experimental dataset to probe the inflationary paradigm. B-modes are indeed a direct consequence of the presence of gravitational waves in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 Alessandro Manzotti

A tensor-type cosmological perturbation, defined as a transverse and traceless spatial fluctuation, is often interpreted as the gravitational waves. While decoupled from the scalar-type perturbations in linear order, the tensor…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Jai-chan Hwang , Donghui Jeong , Hyerim Noh

Curl lensing, also known as lensing field-rotation or shear B-modes, is a distinct post-Born observable caused by two lensing deflections at different redshifts (lens-lens coupling). For the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-28 Mathew Robertson , Giulio Fabbian , Julien Carron , Antony Lewis

In general relativity (GR), gravitational waves (GWs) propagate the well-known plus and cross polarization modes which are the signature of a massless spin-2 field. However, diffraction of GWs caused by intervening objects along the line of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-12 Charles Dalang , Giulia Cusin , Macarena Lagos