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Gravitational-wave astronomy will soon become a new tool for observing the Universe. Detecting and interpreting gravitational waves will require deep theoretical insights into astronomical sources. The past three decades have seen…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-03 Alessandra Buonanno , B. S. Sathyaprakash

The article is a translation of authors paper printed earlier in the inaccessible edition and summarizing the results of research of gravitational waves damping problem in the cosmologic plasma due to the different interactions of…

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Galaxy evolution reveals itself not only through the evolving properties of galaxies themselves but also through its impact on the surrounding environment. The intergalactic medium in particular holds a fossil record of past galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-25 Jesper Rasmussen , Trevor J. Ponman

It is shown here that a cloud of charged particles could in principle absorb energy from gravitational waves (GWs) incident upon it, resulting in wave attenuation. This could in turn have implications for the interpretation of future data…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-04 Thulsi Wickramasinghe , Will Rhodes , Mitchell Revalski

On the viewpoint of corpuscular model an electromagnetic radiation can be regarded as a system composed of photons with different energies and momenta, which provides us a method being different from the Maxwell wave theory to describe the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-02-27 Zhigang Bu , Yuee Luo , Hehe Li , Wenbo Chen , Peiyong Ji

Cosmic strings are generic cosmological predictions of many extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics, such as a $U(1)^\prime$ symmetry breaking phase transition in the early universe or remnants of superstring theory. Unlike…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-13 Yanou Cui , Marek Lewicki , David E. Morrissey , James D. Wells

We explore the potential of gravitational waves (GWs) to probe the pre-BBN era of the early universe, focusing on the effects of energy injection. Specifically, we examine a hidden sector alongside the Standard Model that undergoes a strong…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-12 James B. Dent , Bhaskar Dutta , Mudit Rai

Long-wavelength gravitational waves can induce significant temperature anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background. Distinguishing this from anisotropy induced by energy density fluctuations is critical for testing inflationary cosmology…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 R. Crittenden , J. R. Bond , R. L. Davis , G. Efstathiou , P. J. Steinhardt

In Chapter 1 I present the current picture of the universe and briefly review the cosmological constant problem and some of the theories proposed to solve it. The following Chapters essentially contain the published papers with some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-10 Lorenzo Reverberi

We study the interaction between gravitational waves and a quantum two-level system consisting of a spin 1/2 particle using the formalism of the proper detector frame. This approach highlights the effects of gravitational waves on both the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-28 Matteo Luca Ruggiero

We study the evolution of an inflation-generated magnetic field, due to its coupling to fluid motions, during cosmological phase transitions. We find that the magnetic field stays almost unchanged on large scales, while on small scales the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Tina Kahniashvili , Axel Brandenburg , Leonardo Campanelli , Bharat Ratra , Alexander G. Tevzadze

We propose a method to probe the equation of state of the early universe and its evolution, using the stochastic gravitational wave background from inflation. A small deviation from purely radiation dominated universe ($w= 1/3$) would be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Naoki Seto , Jun'Ichi Yokoyama

We show that the fluctuations of quantum fields as seen by late comoving observers are significantly influenced by the history of the early Universe, and therefore they transmit information about the nature of spacetime in timescales when…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-13 Ana Blasco , Luis J. Garay , Mercedes Martin-Benito , Eduardo Martin-Martinez

We numerically investigate the propagation of plane gravitational waves in the form of an initial boundary value problem with de Sitter initial data. The full non-linear Einstein equations with positive cosmological constant $\lambda$ are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-06 Jörg Frauendiener , Jonathan Hakata , Chris Stevens

We describe main ideas of method of many-particle quantum hydrodynamics allows to derive equations for description of quantum plasma evolution. We also present definitions of collective quantum variables suitable for quantum plasmas. We…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-07-02 P. A. Andreev , L. S. Kuz'menkov

We study the propagation of cosmological gravitational wave (GW) backgrounds from the early radiation era until the present day in modified theories of gravity. Comparing to general relativity (GR), we study the effects that modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-21 Yutong He , Alberto Roper Pol , Axel Brandenburg

We consider the cosmological amplification of a metric perturbation propagating in a higher-dimensional Brans-Dicke background, including a non trivial dilaton evolution. We discuss the properties of the spectral energy density of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 M. Gasperini , M. Giovannini

With the detection of gravitational waves (GW) in recent years, many papers that use simulated GW datasets to constrain dark energy models have been published. However, these works generally consider GW generated by massive astrophysical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-25 Sandro M. R. Micheletti

We report on the first 3-dimensional numerical simulations of first-order phase transitions in the early universe to include the cosmic fluid as well as the scalar field order parameter. We calculate the gravitational wave (GW) spectrum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-30 Mark Hindmarsh , Stephan J. Huber , Kari Rummukainen , David J. Weir

A primordial spectrum of gravitational waves serves as a backlight to the relativistic degrees of freedom of the cosmological fluid. Any change in the particle physics content, due to a change of phase or freeze-out of a species, will leave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Robert R. Caldwell , Tristan L. Smith , Devin G. E. Walker