Clustering of cosmic string loops

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/09/043MaRDI QIDQ5070955zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mudit Jain, A. Vilenkin

Publication date 14 April 2022

Published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.15358

zbMATH Keywords

cosmic stringscosmological perturbation theorydomain wallsgalaxy clusteringmonopoles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cluster sets, prime ends, boundary behavior (30D40) Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Surgery obstructions, Wall groups (57R67) Gravitational waves (83C35) Black holes (83C57) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15)

Abstract: Observational effects of cosmic string loops depend on how loops are distributed in space. Chernoff cite{Chernoff} has argued that loops can be gravitationally captured in galaxies and that for sufficiently small values of $Gmu$ their distribution follows that of dark matter, independently of the loop's length. We re-analyze this issue using the spherical model of galaxy formation with full account taken of the gravitational rocket effect -- loop accelerated motion due to asymmetric emission of gravitational waves. We find that only loops greater than a certain size are captured and that the number of captured loops is orders of magnitude smaller than estimated by Chernoff.

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• Cosmic-string loops are straight
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