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A detection of the primordial gravitational wave background is considered to be the ``smoking-gun '' evidence for inflation. While super-horizon waves are probed with cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization, the relic background will…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Tristan L. Smith , Hiranya V. Peiris , Asantha Cooray

Strongly lensed gravitational waves (GWs) from binary coalescence manifest as repeated chirps from the original merger. At the detectors, the phase of the lensed GWs and its arrival time differences will be consistent modulo a fixed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-17 Jose María Ezquiaga , Wayne Hu , Rico K. L. Lo

Compensated isocurvature perturbations are opposite spatial fluctuations in the baryon and dark matter (DM) densities. They arise in the curvaton model and some models of baryogenesis. While the gravitational effects of baryon fluctuations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 Chen Heinrich

It is accepted that quasars are powered by supermassive black holes (SMBH) with masses in the range 10^6 - 10^9 solar masses in their cores. Occasionally, compact stars can plunge into SMBH. In addition, there may be a number of such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 T. Wickramasinghe , M. Benacquista

We consider a novel contribution to the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background induced by vector and tensor modes generated by the non-linear evolution of primordial scalar perturbations. Our calculation is based on relativistic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Silvia Mollerach , Diego Harari , Sabino Matarrese

We examine gravitational wave memory in the case where sources and detector are in a $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. We consider the case where the universe can be highly inhomogeneous, but the gravitatational radiation is treated in the short…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-25 Lydia Bieri , David Garfinkle , Nicolas Yunes

We present a new estimation method for mapping the gravitational lensing potential from observed CMB intensity and polarization fields. Our method uses Bayesian techniques to estimate the average curvature of the potential over small local…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-23 Ethan Anderes , Lloyd Knox , Alexander van Engelen

We present a method to measure the small-scale matter power spectrum using high-resolution measurements of the gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). To determine whether small-scale structure today is suppressed on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-16 Ho Nam Nguyen , Neelima Sehgal , Mathew Madhavacheril

Future Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments will deliver extremely accurate measurements of the E-modes pattern of the CMB polarization field. Given the sharpness of the E-modes transfer functions, such surveys make for a powerful…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 Matteo Braglia , Xingang Chen , Dhiraj Kumar Hazra , Lucas Pinol

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation B mode polarization signal contains the unique signature of primordial metric perturbations produced during the inflation. The separation of the weak CMB B-mode signal from strong foreground…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-24 Sarvesh Kumar Yadav , Rajib Saha

This article deals with the gravitational lensing (GL) of gravitational waves (GW). We compute the increase in the number of detected GW events due to GL. First, we check that geometrical optics is valid for the GW frequency range on which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Arnaud-Varvella , M. -C. Angonin , Ph. Tourrenc

The space-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors are expected to observe lensed GW events, offering new opportunities for cosmology and fundamental physics.Across the millihertz band, lensing effects transition from the wave-optics regime…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-06 Tianlong Wang , Tianyu Zhao , Minghui Du , Ziren Luo , Peng Dong , Peng Xu

Lensed gravitational wave (GW) events are expected to be powerful new probes of cosmology, contingent on redshift measurement by electromagnetic observations. Host galaxy identification is thus crucial but challenging due to poor…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-15 Zhiwei Chen , Qingjuan Yu , Youjun Lu , Xiao Guo

The B-mode of polarization of the CMB is a uniquely powerful probe of gravitational waves produced in the very early Universe. But searches for primordial B-mode anisotropies must contend with gravitational lensing, which induces late-time…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-27 Shengzhu Wang , Antón Baleato Lizancos , José Luis Bernal

Wave-optics phenomena in gravitational lensing occur when the signal's wavelength is commensurate to the gravitational radius of the lens. Although potentially detectable in lensed gravitational waves, fast radio bursts and pulsars,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-20 Hector Villarrubia-Rojo , Stefano Savastano , Miguel Zumalacárregui , Lyla Choi , Srashti Goyal , Liang Dai , Giovanni Tambalo

Weak gravitational lensing from large-scale structure enhances and reduces the fluxes from extragalactic point sources with an rms amplitude of order 15%. In cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments, sources exceeding some flux…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Max Tegmark , Jens Villumsen

The effect of weak gravitational lensing on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies and polarization will provide access to cosmological information that cannot be obtained from the primary anisotropies alone. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sarah Smith , Anthony Challinor , Graca Rocha

Discovery of strongly-lensed gravitational wave (GW) sources will unveil binary compact objects at higher redshifts and lower intrinsic luminosities than is possible without lensing. Such systems will yield unprecedented constraints on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-07 G. P. Smith , C. P. L. Berry , M. Bianconi , W. M. Farr , M. Jauzac , R. J. Massey , J. Richard , A. Robertson , K. Sharon , A. Vecchio , J. Veitch

Next-generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments will have lower noise and therefore increased sensitivity, enabling improved constraints on fundamental physics parameters such as the sum of neutrino masses and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-16 João Caldeira , W. L. Kimmy Wu , Brian Nord , Camille Avestruz , Shubhendu Trivedi , Kyle T. Story

We measure the scalar induced gravitational waves from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations and the gravitational wave observations. In the $\Lambda$CDM+$r$ model, we constrain the cosmological parameters within the evolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-28 Jun Li , Guang-Hai Guo