Deformation of the gravitational wave spectrum by density perturbations

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/06/046MaRDI QIDQ5069175zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ryusuke Jinno, Henrique Rubira, V. Domcke

Publication date 8 April 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11083, https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/442681

zbMATH Keywords

CMBR theorygravitational waves/theoryintegrated Sachs-Wolfe effectprimordial gravitational waves (theory)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Traveling wave solutions (35C07) Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Measures of association (correlation, canonical correlation, etc.) (62H20) Gravitational waves (83C35) Black holes (83C57) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We study the effect of primordial scalar curvature perturbations on the propagation of gravitational waves over cosmic distances. We point out that such curvature perturbations deform the isotropic spectrum of any stochastic background of gravitational waves of primordial origin through the (integrated) Sachs-Wolfe effect. Computing the changes in the amplitude and frequency of the propagating gravitational wave induced at linear order by scalar curvature perturbations, we show that the resulting deformation of each frequency bin of the gravitational wave spectrum is described by a linearly biased Gaussian with the variance $sigm{a}^{2}simeqintdlnkDelt{a}_{mathcalR}^2$, where $Delt{a}_{mathcalR}^2(k)$ denotes the amplitude of the primordial curvature perturbations. The linear bias encodes the correlations between the changes induced in the frequency and amplitude of the gravitational waves. Taking into account the latest bounds on $Delt{a}_{mathcalR}^2$ from primordial black hole and gravitational wave searches, we demonstrate that the resulting $mathcalO(sigma)$ deformation can be significant for extremely peaked gravitational wave spectra. We further provide an order of magnitude estimate for broad spectra, for which the net distortion is $mathcalO(sigm{a}^2)$.

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