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Weak gravitational lensing by foreground density perturbations generates a gradient mode in the shear of background images. In contrast, cosmological tensor perturbations induce a non-zero curl mode associated with image rotations. In this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Devdeep Sarkar , Paolo Serra , Asantha Cooray , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Daniel Baumann

We identify analytically a multiple-peak structure in the energy-density spectrum of induced gravitational waves (GWs) generated at second-order from a primordial scalar perturbations also with multiple($n$) peaks at small scales $k_{*i}$.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-13 Rong-Gen Cai , Shi Pi , Shao-Jiang Wang , Xing-Yu Yang

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

Induced gravitational waves provide a powerful probe of primordial perturbations in the early universe through their distinctive spectral properties. We analyze the spectral energy density $\Omega_{\text{GW}}$ of gravitational waves induced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-20 Chang Han , Zu-Cheng Chen , Hongwei Yu , Puxun Wu

Investigation of primordial non-Gaussianity holds immense importance in testing the inflation paradigm and shedding light on the physics of the early Universe. In this study, we conduct the complete analysis of scalar-induced gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-21 Jun-Peng Li , Sai Wang , Zhi-Chao Zhao , Kazunori Kohri

Whether or not the primordial gravitational wave (GW) produced during inflation is sufficiently strong to be observable, GWs are necessarily produced from the primordial curvature perturbations in the second order of perturbation. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-02 Kazunori Kohri , Takahiro Terada

In this paper we consider how non-Gaussianity of the primordial density perturbation and the amplitude of gravitational waves from inflation can be used to determine parameters of the curvaton scenario for the origin of structure. We show…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-22 José Fonseca , David Wands

We apply the time-renormalization group approach to study the effect of primordial non-Gaussianities in the non-linear evolution of cosmological dark matter density perturbations. This method improves the standard perturbation approach by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Nicola Bartolo , J. P. Beltran Almeida , Sabino Matarrese , Massimo Pietroni , Antonio Riotto

We investigate the generation of gravitational waves due to the gravitational instability of primordial density perturbations in an early matter-dominated era which could be detectable by experiments such as LIGO and LISA. We use…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 Hooshyar Assadullahi , David Wands

We consider gravitational clustering from primoridal non-Gaussian fluctuations provided by a $\chi^2$ model, as motivated by some models of inflation. The emphasis is in signatures that can be used to constrain this type of models from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Roman Scoccimarro

We approximately compute the bispectrum induced on the CMB temperature by fluctuations in the standard recombination epoch. Of all the second order sources that can induce non-Gaussianity during recombination, we concentrate on those…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-02 Leonardo Senatore , Svetlin Tassev , Matias Zaldarriaga

It has been shown that both scalar and tensor modes with non-Bunch-Davies initial states can enhance the amplitudes of the primordial bispectra compared to those with the Bunch-Davies state, especially for wavenumber modes in a flattened…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-13 Shingo Akama , Hiroaki W. H. Tahara

Next-generation galaxy and 21cm intensity mapping surveys will rely on a combination of the power spectrum and bispectrum for high-precision measurements of primordial non-Gaussianity. In turn, these measurements will allow us to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-08 Roy Maartens , Sheean Jolicoeur , Obinna Umeh , Eline M. De Weerd , Chris Clarkson

We investigate in detail the spectrum of gravitational waves induced by a peaked primordial curvature power spectrum generated in single field inflationary models. We argue that the $f_{\rm NL}$ parameter can be inferred by measuring the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-15 Vicente Atal , Guillem Domènech

Gravitational waves are propagating undulations in the spacetime fabric, which interact very weakly with their environment. In cosmology, gravitational-wave distortions are produced by most of the inflationary scenarios and their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-30 Despoina Pazouli , Christos G. Tsagas

The detection of a stochastic signal by recent pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations, including NANOGrav, PPTA, EPTA+InPTA, CPTA and MPTA, has opened a new window to explore gravitational waves (GWs) at nanohertz frequencies. Motivated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-17 Zhi-Zhang Peng , You Wu , Lang Liu

At the linear level, the gravitational wave (GW) spectrum predicted by inflation, and many of its alternatives, can have arbitrarily small amplitude and consequently an unconstrained tilt. However, at second order, tensor fluctuations are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-10 Ido Ben-Dayan , Brian Keating , David Leon , Ira Wolfson

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 develop a possibility of generating tensor non-Gaussianity in a kind of anisotropic inflation, where a $U(1)$ gauge field is kinetically coupled to a spectator scalar field. Owing to this coupling, the coherent mode of the electric field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Takashi Hiramatsu , Kai Murai , Ippei Obata , Shuichiro Yokoyama

We completely clarify the feature of primordial non-Gaussianities of tensor perturbations in generalized G-inflation, i.e., the most general single-field inflation model with second order field equations. It is shown that the most general…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Xian Gao , Tsutomu Kobayashi , Masahide Yamaguchi , Jun'ichi Yokoyama