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With an energy scale that can be as high as $10^{14}\,{\rm GeV}$, inflation may provide a unique probe of high-energy physics. Both scalar and tensor fluctuations generated during this early accelerated expansion contain crucial information…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-25 Laura Iacconi , Matteo Fasiello , Hooshyar Assadullahi , Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni , David Wands

We propose a new model to generate large anisotropies in the scalar-induced gravitational wave (SIGW) background via sound speed resonance in the inflaton-curvaton mixed scenario. Cosmological curvature perturbations are not only…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-03 Yan-Heng Yu , Sai Wang

The Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB) is expected to be a key observable for Gravitational Wave (GW) interferometry. Its detection will open a new window on early universe cosmology and on the astrophysics of compact objects.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-11 N. Bartolo , D. Bertacca , S. Matarrese , M. Peloso , A. Ricciardone , A. Riotto , G. Tasinato

One of the major predictions of inflation is the existence of a stochastic background of cosmological gravitational waves (GW). These gravitational waves can induce significant temperature anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alessandro Melchiorri , Carolina Odman

The detection of Primordial Gravitational Waves (PGWs) is one of the most important goals of modern cosmology since PGWs can both provide substantial evidence for primordial inflation and shed light on its physical nature. Small scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-17 William Giarè , Alessandro Melchiorri

We quantitatively study how the primordial density fluctuations are imprinted on the anisotropy of the phase transition gravitational wave (PTGW). Generated long before recombination and free from Silk damping, the anisotropic PTGW might…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-28 Yongping Li , Fa Peng Huang , Xiao Wang , Xinmin Zhang

We study primordial anisotropies generated in the model of gauged hybrid inflation in which the complex waterfall field is charged under a $U(1)$ gauge field. Primordial anisotropies are generated either actively during inflation or from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Ali Akbar Abolhasani , Razieh Emami , Hassan Firouzjahi

The measurement of B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background at large angular scales by the BICEP experiment suggests a stochastic gravitational wave background from early-universe inflation with a surprisingly large amplitude.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-21 Jerod Caligiuri , Arthur Kosowsky

We consider the inflationary universe with a spectator scalar field coupled to a $U(1)$ gauge field and calculate curvature perturbation and gravitational waves (GWs). We find that the sourced GWs can be larger than the one from vacuum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Tomohiro Fujita , Ippei Obata , Takahiro Tanaka , Shuichiro Yokoyama

We investigate the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) from cosmic domain walls (DWs) caused by quantum fluctuations of a light scalar field $\phi$ during inflation. Perturbations of $\phi$ remain almost constant after leaving…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-14 Jing Liu , Rong-Gen Cai , Zong-Kuan Guo

A future detection of the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB) with GW experiments is expected to open a new window on early universe cosmology and on the astrophysics of compact objects. In this paper we study SGWB anisotropies,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 N. Bartolo , D. Bertacca , S. Matarrese , M. Peloso , A. Ricciardone , A. Riotto , G. Tasinato

We investigate the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB) produced in models of axion inflation coupled to gauge fields. Achieving a detectable signal at Pulsar Timing Array, astrometry, or interferometer frequencies requires a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-21 Matteo Barbon , Nadir Ijaz , Marco Peloso

Primordial non-Gaussianity encodes vital information of the physics of the early universe, particularly during the inflationary epoch. To explore the local-type primordial non-Gaussianity $f_{\mathrm{NL}}$, we study the anisotropies in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-25 Jun-Peng Li , Sai Wang , Zhi-Chao Zhao , Kazunori Kohri

We examine cosmological perturbations in a dynamical theory of inflation in which an Abelian gauge field couples directly to the inflaton, breaking conformal invariance. When the coupling between the gauge field and the inflaton takes a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-13 Timothy R. Dulaney , Moira I. Gresham

The stochastic gravitational-wave background originating from cosmic sources contains vital information about the early universe. In this work, we comprehensively study the cross-correlations between the energy-density anisotropies in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Zhi-Chao Zhao , Sai Wang , Jun-Peng Li , Kazunori Kohri

We consider the primordial gravitational wave (GW) background in a class of spatially-flat inflationary cosmological models with cold dark matter (CDM), a cosmological constant, and a broken-scale-invariant (BSI) steplike primordial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. Lesgourgues , D. Polarski , A. A. Starobinsky

I will discuss to what degree the cosmic microwave background (CMB) can be used to constrain primordial non-Gaussianity involving one tensor and two scalar fluctuations, focusing on the correlation of one $B$-mode polarization fluctuation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-18 P. Daniel Meerburg

In inflationary models with minimal amount of gravity waves, the primordial power spectrum of density fluctuations, $A_S^2(k)$, together with the basic cosmological parameters, completely specify the predictions for the cosmic microwave…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yun Wang , David N. Spergel , Michael A. Strauss

We point out that tensor consistency relations-i.e. the behavior of primordial correlation functions in the limit a tensor mode has a small momentum-are more universal than scalar consistency relations. They hold in the presence of multiple…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 Lorenzo Bordin , Paolo Creminelli , Mehrdad Mirbabayi , Jorge Noreña

We investigate the impact of statistical inhomogeneity and anisotropy in primordial scalar perturbations on the scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGW). Assuming inflationary quantum fluctuations originate from a coherent state, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-08 Dipayan Mukherjee , H. V. Ragavendra , Shiv K. Sethi