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We calculate the gravitational wave background produced from density perturbations in an early matter domination era where primordial black holes form. The formation of black holes requires perturbations out of the linear regime. Space with…

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We investigate the evolution of density perturbations in dark matter, including the new combined effects of finite number density and non-zero velocity dispersion. Using a truncated BBGKY hierarchy, we derive analytical expressions for the…

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This paper studies gravitational waves in a dark matter model composed of three types of particles with distinct spins, along with a scalar field $\phi$ that mediates interactions between Standard Model particles and dark matter. It…

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Matter and dark matter in galaxies represent two main components linked by the gravitational interaction. Collisions of galaxies may create an offset between the centers of mass of these components. Ignoring internal dynamics of particles…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-27 V. V. Flambaum , I. B. Samsonov

The reheating of the universe after hybrid inflation proceeds through the nucleation and subsequent collision of large concentrations of energy density in the form of bubble-like structures moving at relativistic speeds. This generates a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-01-29 Juan Garcia-Bellido , Daniel G. Figueroa

Dark matter fermions interacting via attractive fifth forces mediated by a light mediator can form dark matter halos in the very early universe. We show that bound systems composed of these halos are capable of generating gravitational wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-16 Xinpeng Wang , Yifan Lu , Zachary S. C. Picker , Alexander Kusenko , Misao Sasaki

The longitudinal components of massive vector fields generated during inflation constitute a well-motivated dark matter candidate, with interesting phenomenological implications. During the epoch of radiation domination following inflation,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-20 Alisha Marriott-Best , Marco Peloso , Gianmassimo Tasinato

Stability properties of gravitationally bound condensates composed of ultralight axionic Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) are studied. Previous work has shown that astrophysical collisions could make self-gravitating condensates structurally…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-11 Joshua Eby , Madelyn Leembruggen , Peter Suranyi , L. C. R. Wijewardhana

A dark matter overdensity around a black hole may significantly alter the dynamics of the black hole's merger with another compact object. We consider here intermediate mass-ratio inspirals of stellar-mass compact objects with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-23 Bradley J. Kavanagh , David A. Nichols , Gianfranco Bertone , Daniele Gaggero

We discuss how small-scale density perturbations on the Fresnel scale affect amplitudes and phases of gravitational waves that are magnified by gravitational lensing in geometric optics. We derive equations that connect the small-scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Masamune Oguri , Ryuichi Takahashi

The interaction of gravitational waves (GWs) with matter is normally treated as being insignificant. However, recent work has shown that the interaction with a viscous fluid may be astrophysically important when the distance between the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-26 Nigel T. Bishop , Vishnu Kakkat , Monos Naidoo

Fuzzy (wave) dark matter (FDM), the dynamical model underlying an ultralight bosonic dark matter species, produces a rich set of non-gravitational signatures that distinguishes it markedly from the phenomenologically related warm (particle)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-22 Tim Zimmermann , David J. E. Marsh , Keir K. Rogers , Hans A. Winther , Sijing Shen

Ultralight dark matter exhibits an order-one density fluctuation over the spatial scale of its wavelength. These fluctuations gravitationally interact with gravitational wave interferometers, leading to distinctive signals in detectors. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-22 Hyungjin Kim

The classical dynamics of collisionless cold dark matter, commonly described by fluid variables or a phase-space distribution, can be captured in a single semiclassical wavefunction. We illustrate how classical multi-streaming creates wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Alex Gough , Cora Uhlemann

We study gravitational waves from a particle moving around a system of a point mass with a disk in Newtonian gravitational theory. A particle motion in this system can be chaotic when the gravitational contribution from a surface density of…

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In the quest to unravel the dark sector, feebly interacting freeze-in dark matter presents an intriguing possibility, plausibly explaining the consistent null results from various dark matter experiments. We propose a unique imprint in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-27 Partha Konar , Sudipta Show

On the basis of the competing cubic-quintic nonlinearity model, stability (instability) of continuous waves in nonlocal random non-Kerr nonlinear media is studied analytically and numerically. Fluctuating media parameters are modeled by the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2008-04-24 Maxim A. Molchan

We study fluctuations in a vertically oscillated layer of grains below the critical acceleration for the onset of ordered standing waves. As onset is approached, transient disordered waves with a characteristic length scale emerge and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Daniel I. Goldman , J. B. Swift , Harry L. Swinney

Gravitational waves are perturbations in the spacetime that propagate at the speed of light. The study of such phenomenon is interesting because many cosmological processes and astrophysical objects, such as binary systems, are potential…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-27 E. F. D. Evangelista , J. C. N. de Araujo

We study the effect of density perturbations on the process of first-order phase transitions and gravitational wave production in the early Universe. We are mainly interested in how the distribution of nucleated bubbles is affected by…

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