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We constrain the primordial gravitational waves from cosmic microwave background (CMB) and stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) observations. SGWB provides the latest way to explore the early universe and the cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 Jun Li , Guang-Hai Guo

We present a follow-up study to the method recently proposed by Namikawa and Sherwin (2023) to probe gravitational waves using cross-correlations between two cosmic microwave background (CMB) $B$-modes and a large-scale structure tracer. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-29 Toshiya Namikawa , Irene Abril-Cabezas , Blake D. Sherwin

Gravitational Waves (GW) sourced by second-order primordial curvature fluctuations are among the favored models fitting the recent pulsar timing array (PTA) measurement of a stochastic GW background (SGWB). We study how spectral distortions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-31 Matteo Tagliazucchi , Matteo Braglia , Fabio Finelli , Mauro Pieroni

We investigate the potential of observations of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and large-scale structure in the Universe to detect possible modifications of standard inflationary models by physics beyond the Planck…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Oystein Elgaroy , Steen Hannestad

In addition to density perturbations, inflationary models of the early universe generally predict a stochastic background of gravitational waves or tensor fluctuations. By making use of the inflationary flow approach for single field models…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Brett C. Friedman , Asantha Cooray , Alessandro Melchiorri

Primordial scalar curvature perturbations ($\zeta$), typically probed on large cosmological scales via CMB and LSS observations, can be significantly enhanced on smaller scales by various early Universe mechanisms, for instance, non-minimal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-30 Mauro Pieroni

We investigate the degree to which the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) can be used to constrain primordial non-Gaussianity coming from the presence of spinning particles coupled to the inflaton. We compute the $\langle TTT \rangle$ and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-09 Lorenzo Bordin , Giovanni Cabass

Global cosmic strings are predicted in many motivated extensions to the Standard Model of particle physics, with close connections to axion dark matter physics. Recent studies suggest that, although subdominant relative to Goldstone…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-13 Chia-Feng Chang , Yanou Cui

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

In this contribution we discuss the possibility of generating an observable gravitational wave (GW) background by coupling a pseudo-scalar inflaton to some Abelian gauge fields. This analysis is performed by dividing inflationary models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-04 Mauro Pieroni

I discuss constraints on the power spectrum of primordial tensor perturbations from a combination of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) measurements and the gravitational wave direct detection experiments LIGO/Virgo and DECIGO. There are two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 William H. Kinney

The observation of primordial gravitational waves could provide a new and unique window on the earliest moments in the history of the universe, and on possible new physics at energies many orders of magnitude beyond those accessible at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-16 Lawrence Krauss , Scott Dodelson , Stephan Meyer

The recent observations from CMB have imposed a very stringent upper-limit on the tensor/scalar ratio $r$ of inflation models, $r < 0.064$, which indicates that the primordial gravitational waves (PGW), even though possible to be detected,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Taotao Qiu , Taishi Katsuragawa , Shulei Ni

Recent measurements of temperature fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) indicate that the Universe is flat and that large-scale structure grew via gravitational infall from primordial adiabatic perturbations. Both of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Marc Kamionkowski , Andrew H. Jaffe

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

The epoch when the Universe had a temperature higher than a GeV is long before any time at which we have reliable observations constraining the cosmological evolution. For example, the occurrence of a second burst of inflation (sometimes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Luis E Mendes , Andrew R Liddle

We perform a multiparameter likelihood analysis to compare measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectra with predictions from models involving cosmic strings. Adding strings to the standard case of a primordial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Neil Bevis , Mark Hindmarsh , Martin Kunz , Jon Urrestilla

CMB (Cosmic Microwave Background) polarization observations test many aspects of cosmological models. Effective pseudoscalar-photon interaction(s) would induce a rotation of linear polarization of electromagnetic wave propagating with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-20 Wei-Tou Ni

One of the most interesting predictions of string-inspired cosmological models is the presence of a stochastic background of relic gravitational waves in the frequency band accessible to Earth-based detectors. Here we consider a ``minimal''…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Ungarelli , A. Vecchio

In this paper, inflationary cosmology is reviewed, paying particular attention to its observational signatures associated with large-scale density perturbations generated from quantum fluctuations. In the most general scalar-tensor theories…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-13 Shinji Tsujikawa