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Gravitational waves (GWs) provide a powerful probe of the early universe due to their ability to free-stream across cosmic history. We study GW production in a compelling scenario where a rotating axion(-like) field becomes relevant for a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-12 Arushi Bodas , Keisuke Harigaya , Keisuke Inomata , Takahiro Terada , Lian-Tao Wang

Although Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure probe the largest scales of our universe with ever increasing precision, our knowledge about the smaller scales is still very limited other than the bounds on Primordial Black…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Caner Unal

Scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) open a unique window into early-universe physics. While their generation from adiabatic perturbations has been extensively studied, the contribution from isocurvature perturbations remains largely…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 Xiang-Xi Zeng

We revisit and clarify the gauge dependence of gravitational waves generated at second order from scalar perturbations. In a universe dominated by a perfect fluid with a constant equation-of-state parameter $w$, we compute the energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-29 Keitaro Tomikawa , Tsutomu Kobayashi

Gravitational waves (GWs) from merging black holes allow for unprecedented probes of strong-field gravity. Testing gravity in this regime requires accurate predictions of gravitational waveform templates in viable extensions of General…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-30 Banafsheh Shiralilou , Tanja Hinderer , Samaya Nissanke , Néstor Ortiz , Helvi Witek

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

We discuss gravitational waves (GWs) induced by a heavy spectator field that starts to oscillate during inflation. During the oscillation of the spectator field, its effective mass can also oscillate in some potentials. This mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Keisuke Inomata

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

We study both primordial gravitational waves (GWs) and scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) in a class of the parity-violating scalar-tensor (PVST) theory, of which the Lagrangian is the linear combination of seven ghost-free…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Jia-Xi Feng , Jia-Yuan Fang , Xian Gao

Given that gravitational waves are the future probes of the universe, it is important to test various physical effects of these on matter. This article explores the first-order perturbation, caused by a planar gravitational wave, on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-22 Siddhartha E. Morales G. , Arundhati Dasgupta

In dark-energy models where a scalar field is nonminimally coupled to the spacetime geometry, gravitational waves are expected to be supplemented with a scalar mode. Such scalar waves may interact with the standard tensor waves, thereby…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-12 Charles Dalang , Pierre Fleury , Lucas Lombriser

Pulsar timing arrays gathered evidence of the presence of a gravitational wave background around nHz frequencies. If the gravitational wave background was induced by large and Gaussian primordial fluctuations, they would then produce too…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-18 Shyam Balaji , Guillem Domènech , Gabriele Franciolini

We investigate scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) in the framework of spatially covariant gravity (SCG), a broad class of Lorentz-violating modified gravity theories respecting only spatial diffeomorphism invariance. Extending…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-13 Jiehao Jiang , Jieming Lin , Xian Gao

We consider a simple extension of Standard Model by adding two complex singlet scalars with a $\rm{U}\left(1\right)$ symmetry. A discrete $\mathcal{Z}_2 \times \mathcal{Z}^{\prime}_2$ symmetry is imposed in the model and the added scalars…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-11 Avik Paul , Upala Mukhopadhyay , Debasish Majumdar

We hereby propose an alternative and additional angle on the nature of gravitational waves (GWs), postulating the theoretical and experimental possibility that GWs carry a deformation of the time component of spacetime, other than the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-06 Stefano Bondani , Sergio Luigi Cacciatori

We offer a physical interpretation of the origin of the scalar-induced gravitational wave background, showing that it is mainly produced around the peaks of the scalar perturbations. We also provide a compact expression to estimate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-30 A. J. Iovino , G. Perna , D. Perrone , D. Racco , A. Riotto

Stochastic background of gravitational waves (GW) generated by the interactions between primordial black holes (PBH) in the early universe and by PBH evaporation is considered. If PBHs dominated in the cosmological energy density prior to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-02 A. D. Dolgov

Unlike general relativity, the scalar gravitational waves can be excited due to the radial oscillations in scalar-tensor gravity. To examine the scalar gravitational waves in scalar-tensor gravity, we derive the evolution equations of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Hajime Sotani

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

The direct detection of gravitational wave by Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory indicates the coming of the era of gravitational-wave astronomy and gravitational-wave cosmology. It is expected that more and more…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-27 Rong-Gen Cai , Zhoujian Cao , Zong-Kuan Guo , Shao-Jiang Wang , Tao Yang