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Primordial gravitational waves generated during inflation lead to the B-mode polarization in the cosmic microwave background and a stochastic gravitational wave background in the Universe. We will explore the current constraint on the tilt…

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Gravitational waves constitute a powerful probe of the underlying theory of gravity. In extensions of general relativity, additional degrees of freedom, such as scalar fields in the gravitational sector, can modify their propagation through…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-16 Igor de O. C. Pedreira , Amara Ilyas , Ziwei Wang , Leila L. Graef , Yi-Fu Cai

Primordial gravitational waves (PGW) produced during inflation span a large range of frequencies, carrying information on the dynamics of the primordial universe. During an early scalar-tensor dominated epoch, the amplitude of the PGW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-17 Debika Chowdhury , Gianmassimo Tasinato , Ivonne Zavala

Cosmological stochastic gravitational waves (GWs) induced by a spectator field are usually expected to have an amplitude very small compared with those generated by the curvature perturbation, or equivalently by a field dominating the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-04 Mohammad Ali Gorji , Misao Sasaki

We investigate density fluctuations and scalar-induced gravitational waves (GWs) arising from the production of long-lived solitons and oscillons, which can dominate the early Universe and drive reheating prior to the standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-22 Xiao-Bin Sui , Jing Liu , Rong-Gen Cai

The collapse of large-amplitude primordial curvature perturbations into planetary-mass primordial black holes generates a scalar-induced gravitational wave background in the $\mu $Hz frequency range that may be detectable by future Lunar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-16 D. Blas , J. W. Foster , Y. Gouttenoire , A. J. Iovino , I. Musco , S. Trifinopoulos , M. Vanvlasselaer

In June 2023, multiple pulsar timing array collaborations provided evidence for the existence of a stochastic gravitational wave background. Scalar induced gravitational waves (SIGWs), as one of the most likely sources of stochastic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-07 Jing-Zhi Zhou , Yu-Ting Kuang , Zhe Chang , H. Lü

In this work, we develop a generic formalism for the study of tensor perturbations induced at second order by first-order vector metric perturbations, dubbing these induced tensor modes $\textit{vector-induced gravitational waves}$ (VIGWs).…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-29 Arko Bhaumik , Theodoros Papanikolaou , Anish Ghoshal

We perform a consistent calculation of primordial black hole (PBH) mass spectrum and second-order induced gravitational wave (GW) background produced from primordial scalar perturbations in radiation era of the early Universe. It is shown…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-26 Edgar Bugaev , Peter Klimai

Gravitational waves offer a potent mean to test the underlying theory of gravity. In general theories of gravity, such as scalar-tensor theories, one expects modifications in the friction term and the sound speed in the gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-17 Yi-Fu Cai , Guillem Domènech , Alexander Ganz , Jie Jiang , Chunshan Lin , Bo Wang

A new effect is described by which primordial gravity waves leave a permanent signature in the large scale structure of the Universe. The effect occurs at second order in perturbation theory and is sensitive to the order in which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-27 Kiyoshi Wesley Masui , Ue-Li Pen

Recently we have proposed a novel method to probe primordial gravitational waves from upper bounds on the abundance of primordial black holes (PBHs). When the amplitude of primordial tensor perturbations generated in the early Universe is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-18 Tomohiro Nakama , Teruaki Suyama

We simulate the evolution of a dust universe from $z=1089$ to $z=0$ by numerically integrating the Einstein's equation for a spatially flat Friedmann-Lemaire-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) background spacetime with scalar perturbations which are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-12 Ke Wang

The existence of a stochastic gravitational wave background is indicated by the recent pulsar timing array (PTA) experiments. We study the enhanced production of second-order gravitational waves from the scalar perturbations when the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-26 Masahiro Kawasaki , Kai Murai

The energy momentum tensor of a magnetic field always contains a spin-2 component in its anisotropic stress and therefore generates gravitational waves. It has been argued in the literature (Caprini & Durrer \cite{CD}) that this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-13 Elisa Fenu , Ruth Durrer

The standard model of particle physics is known to be intriguingly successful. However their rich phenomena represented by the phase transitions (PTs) have not been completely understood yet, including the possibility of the existence of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Katsuya T. Abe , Yuichiro Tada , Ikumi Ueda

We investigate a novel probe of spatial geometry of the Universe through the observation of gravitational waves (GWs) induced by first order curvature perturbations. The existence of spatial curvature leaves imprints on the gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-18 Utkarsh Kumar , Udaykrishna Thattarampilly , Pankaj Chaturvedi

We investigate the gravitational wave background induced by the first order scalar perturbations in the curvaton models. We consider the quadratic and axion-like curvaton potential which can generate the blue-tilted power spectrum of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-09 Masahiro Kawasaki , Naoya Kitajima , Shuichiro Yokoyama

The current observational constraints still leave a substantial mass window $\sim [10^{-16},10^{-14}] \cup [10^{-13},10^{-12}] M_\odot$ for primordial black holes (PBHs) representing all of dark matter (DM) in our Universe. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Chen Yuan , Qing-Guo Huang

The stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background is secondarily and inevitably induced by the primordial curvature perturbations beyond the first order of the cosmological perturbation theory. We analytically calculate the integration…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-15 Takahiro Terada