Probing cosmic strings with gravitational-wave fringe

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/07/068MaRDI QIDQ5070306zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tae Hun Kim, Sunghoon Jung

Publication date 11 April 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04172

zbMATH Keywords

cosmic stringsdomain wallsgravitational lensinggravitational waves/theorymonopoles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surgery obstructions, Wall groups (57R67) Two-body problems (70F05) Diffraction, scattering (78A45) Mono-, di- and multipole moments (EM and other), gyromagnetic relations (81V60) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05) Gravitational waves (83C35) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) Black holes (83C57) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: Cosmic strings are important remnants of early-Universe phase transitions. We show that they can be probed by Gravitational Waves (GWs) from compact binary mergers. If such chirping GW passes by a cosmic string, it is gravitationally lensed and left with a characteristic signal of the lensing -- the GW fringe. It is observable naturally through the frequency chirping of GWs. This allows to probe cosmic strings with small tension $Delta=8piGmu=10^{-6}ext--10^{-10}$, just below the current constraint, at high-frequency LIGO-band and mid-band detectors. Although its detection rates are estimated to be small, even a single detection can be used to identify a cosmic string. Contrary to the stochastic GW produced from loop decays only in local $U(1)$ models, the GW fringe can directly probe straight strings model independently. This is also complementary to the existing probes with the strong lensing of light.

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