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Gravity is a non-linear theory, and hence, barring cancellations, the initial super-horizon perturbations produced by inflation must contain some minimum amount of mode coupling, or primordial non-Gaussianity. In single-field slow-roll…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-11 Giovanni Cabass , Enrico Pajer , Fabian Schmidt

We present the first predictions for the angular power spectrum of the astrophysical gravitational wave background constituted of the radiation emitted by all resolved and unresolved astrophysical sources. Its shape and amplitude depend on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Giulia Cusin , Irina Dvorkin , Cyril Pitrou , Jean-Philippe Uzan

Galaxy clusters are sources of gravitational radiation. The main aim of this paper is to give numerical estimates and theoretical description of the relevant features of the gravitational radiation coming from an appropriate spatial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Vicent Quilis , Jose M. Ibanez , Diego Saez

This paper explores the physics of second-order gravitational waves (GWs) induced by scalar-tensor perturbation interactions in the radiation-dominated Universe. We investigate the distinctive signatures of these GWs and their detectability…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-04 Pritha Bari , Nicola Bartolo , Guillem Domènech , Sabino Matarrese

The stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) recently detected by the PTA collaborations could be the gravitational waves (GWs) induced by curvature perturbations. However, primordial black holes (PBHs) might be overproduced if the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-13 Keisuke Inomata , Masahiro Kawasaki , Kyohei Mukaida , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

The nonlinear turbulent interactions between acoustic gravity waves are investigated using two dimensional nonlinear fluid simulations. The acoustic gravity waves consist of velocity and density perturbations and propagate across the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dastgeer Shaikh , Padma K Shukla , Lennart Stenflo

In this paper, we systematically study gravitational waves (GWs) produced by remote compact astrophysical sources. To describe such GWs properly, we introduce three scales, $\lambda, \; L_c$ and $L$, denoting, respectively, the typical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Jared Fier , Xiongjun Fang , Bowen Li , Shinji Mukohyama , Anzhong Wang , Tao Zhu

We investigate the scalar induced gravitational waves which propagate with a speed different from the speed of light. First, we analytically calculate the expression of the power spectrum of the scalar induced gravitational waves which is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-28 Jun Li , Guang-Hai Guo

We investigate the non-Gaussianity of second-order matter density perturbations induced by primordial gravitational waves (GWs). These tensor-induced scalar modes arise from local fluctuations in the GWs energy density, which is quadratic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Mariam Abdelaziz , Pritha Bari , Sabino Matarrese , Angelo Ricciardone

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 identify a characteristic pattern in the scalar-induced stochastic gravitational wave background from particle production during inflation. If particle production is sufficiently efficient, the scalar power spectrum exhibits…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-24 Jacopo Fumagalli , Sébastien Renaux-Petel , Lukas T. Witkowski

A population of compact object binaries emitting gravitational waves that are not individually resolvable will form a stochastic gravitational wave signal. While the expected spectrum over population realizations is well known from Phinney…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-06 William G. Lamb , Stephen R. Taylor

We study the stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background induced by the primordial scalar perturbation with the spectrum having a lognormal peak of width $\Delta$ at $k=k_*$. We derive an analytical formula for the GW spectrum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-30 Shi Pi , Misao Sasaki

We investigate the correlation between the distribution of galaxies and the predicted gravitational-wave background of astrophysical origin. We show that the large angular scale anisotropies of this background are dominated by nearby…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-19 Guadalupe Cañas-Herrera , Omar Contigiani , Valeri Vardanyan

We study stochastic gravitational waves generated in a post-inflationary magnetogenesis scenario with time-dependent gauge couplings during inflation and reheating. In this setup, magnetic anisotropic stress directly sources gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-26 Subhasis Maiti

General relativity and its cosmological solution predicts the existence of tensor modes of perturbations evolving on top of our Friedman-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker expanding Universe. Being gauge invariant and not necessarily coupled to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-20 Amaury Micheli , Patrick Peter

Cosmic-rays are charged particles moving in magnetic fields. They not only emit well-known synchrotron photons but also gravitational radiation. We clarify the characteristics of the gravitational wave signal in this specific situation and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-17 Aurélien Barrau , Juan García-Bellido , Killian Martineau , Daryna Yushchenko

The high-frequency gravitational-wave band is often discussed primarily in the context of new physics, but realistic Standard-Model foregrounds remain incompletely characterized. We investigate pulsar polar caps as a physically motivated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-21 Anne S. Freise , Jamie I. McDonald , Kirill Riabtsev , Samuel J. Witte

We consider the effects of the quantum stress tensor fluctuations of a conformal field in generating gravity waves in inflationary models. We find a non-scale invariant, non-Gaussian contribution which depends upon the total expansion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-12-08 Chun-Hsien Wu , Jen-Tsung Hsiang , L. H. Ford , Kin-Wang Ng

Scalar-tensor gravity theories with a nonminimal Gauss-Bonnet coupling typically lead to an anomalous propagation speed for gravitational waves, and have therefore been tightly constrained by multimessenger observations such as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-18 José Barrientos , Fabrizio Cordonier-Tello , Cristóbal Corral , Fernando Izaurieta , Perla Medina , Eduardo Rodríguez , Omar Valdivia