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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

The imprint of gravitational waves (GWs) on large-scale structures (LSS) is a useful and promising way to detect or to constrain them. Tensor fossils have been largely studied in the literature as an indirect way to detect primordial GWs.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 Pritha Bari , Daniele Bertacca , Nicola Bartolo , Angelo Ricciardone , Serena Giardiello , Sabino Matarrese

We present analytic integral solutions for the second-order induced gravitational waves (GWs). After presenting all the possible second-order source terms, we calculate explicitly the solutions for the GWs induced by the linear scalar and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-14 Jinn-Ouk Gong

There is a growing expectation that the gravitational wave detectors will start probing the stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds in the following years. We explore the spectral shapes of gravitational waves induced to second order by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Ioannis Dalianis , Konstantinos Kritos

Searches for primordial gravitational waves have resulted in constraints in a large frequency range from a variety of sources. The standard Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) technique is to parameterise the tensor power spectrum in terms of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Thomas J. Clarke , Edmund J. Copeland , Adam Moss

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

Primordial gravitational waves (PGWs) generate scalar density perturbations at second order. Since the induced density contrast is quadratic in the tensor field, it is intrinsically non-Gaussian. We study the imprint of this tensor-induced…

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

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

Primordial scalar curvature perturbations ($\zeta$), typically probed on large cosmological scales via CMB and LSS observations, can be significantly enhanced on smaller scales by various early Universe mechanisms, for instance, non-minimal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-30 Mauro Pieroni

Primordial density perturbations in the radiation-dominated era of the early Universe are expected to generate stochastic gravitational waves (GWs) due to nonlinear mode coupling. In this \emph{Letter}, we report on a search for such a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-30 Shasvath J. Kapadia , Kanhaiya Lal Pandey , Teruaki Suyama , Shivaraj Kandhasamy , Parameswaran Ajith

We study the gravitational wave (GW) signal sourced by primordial turbulence that is assumed to be present at cosmological phase transitions like the electroweak and quantum chromodynamics phase transitions. We consider various models of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-28 Axel Brandenburg , Grigol Gogoberidze , Tina Kahniashvili , Sayan Mandal , Alberto Roper Pol , Nakul Shenoy

Gravitational waves were copiously produced in the early Universe whenever the processes taking place were sufficiently violent. The spectra of several of these gravitational wave backgrounds on subhorizon scales have been extensively…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-30 Elisa Fenu , Daniel G. Figueroa , Ruth Durrer , Juan Garcia-Bellido

The spectrum of primordial gravitational waves (GWs), especially its tilt $n_T$, carries significant information about the primordial universe. Combining recent aLIGO and Planck2015+BK14 data, we find that the current limit is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-05 Yu-Tong Wang , Yong Cai , Zhi-Guo Liu , Yun-Song Piao

We provide a review on the state-of-the-art of gravitational waves induced by primordial fluctuations, so-called induced gravitational waves. We present the intuitive physics behind induced gravitational waves and we revisit and unify the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-08 Guillem Domènech

We revisit the calculation of third order \acp{SIGW} and extend it from a monochromatic primordial power spectrum to a more general log-normal one. We investigate the impact of third order SIGWs on \ac{SNR} of \ac{LISA} and \ac{PTA}…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-28 Zhe Chang , Yu-Ting Kuang , Di Wu , Jing-Zhi Zhou

We investigate the influence of cosmic magnetic fields on gravitational wave perturbations, and find exact solutions on large scales. We show that a large-scale magnetic field can generate large-scale non-decaying gravitational waves. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Roy Maartens , Christos Tsagas , Carlo Ungarelli

We devise a novel mechanism and for the first time demonstrate that the Higgs model in particle physics can drive the inflation to satisfy the cosmic microwave background observations and simultaneously enhance the curvature perturbations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-07 Zhu Yi , Yungui Gong , Bin Wang , Zong-hong Zhu

Primordial black hole (PBH) mergers have been proposed as an explanation for the gravitational wave events detected by the LIGO collaboration. Such PBHs may be formed in the early Universe as a result of the collapse of extremely rare…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-20 Tomohiro Nakama , Joseph Silk , Marc Kamionkowski

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

It is possible that primordial black holes consitute (or consituted) a significant fraction of the energy budget of our universe. Terrestrial gravitational wave detectors offer the opportunity to test the existence of primordial black holes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-17 Guillem Domènech , Misao Sasaki