Probing cosmological fields with gravitational wave oscillations

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/04/027zbMATH Open1491.83023arXiv1912.06104OpenAlexW2996667658MaRDI QIDQ5068458FDOQ5068458

Authors: Jose María Ezquiaga, Lavinia Heisenberg, Jose Beltrán Jiménez 

Publication date: 6 April 2022

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

Abstract: Gravitational wave (GW) oscillations occur whenever there are additional tensor modes interacting with the perturbations of the metric coupled to matter. These extra modes can arise from new spin-2 fields (as in e.g. bigravity theories) or from non-trivial realisations of the cosmological principle induced by background vector fields with internal symmetries (e.g. Yang-Mills, gaugids or multi-Proca). We develop a general cosmological framework to study such novel features due to oscillations. The evolution of the two tensor modes is described by a linear system of coupled second order differential equations exhibiting friction, velocity, chirality and mass mixing. We follow appropriate schemes to obtain approximate solutions for the evolution of both modes and show the corresponding phenomenology for different mixings. Observational signatures include modulations of the wave-form, oscillations of the GW luminosity distance, anomalous GW speed and chirality. We discuss the prospects of observing these effects with present and future GW observatories such as LIGO/VIRGO and LISA.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.06104

zbMATH Keywords

modified gravitydark energy theorygravitational waves/theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Gravitational waves (83C35) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60) Second-order hyperbolic equations (35L10) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56)

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