An exact analytic spectrum of relic gravitational waves in an accelerating universe

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/23/11/007zbMATH Open1104.83022arXivastro-ph/0604456OpenAlexW2951691091MaRDI QIDQ5481081FDOQ5481081

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Publication date: 7 August 2006

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: An exact analytic calculation is presented for the spectrum of relic gravitational waves in the scenario of accelerating Universe $Omeg{a}_{Lambda}+Omeg{a}_m=1$. The spectrum formula contains explicitly the parameters of acceleration, inflation, reheating, and the (tensor/scalar) ratio, so that it can be employed for a variety of cosmological models. We find that the spectrum depends on the behavior of the present accelerating expansion. The amplitude of gravitational waves for the model $Omeg{a}_{Lambda}=0.65$ is about $sim50\mathrm{\%}$ greater than that of the model $Omeg{a}_{Lambda}=0.7$, an effect accessible to the designed sensitivities of LIGO and LISA. The spectrum sensitively depends on the inflationary models with $$, and a larger $$ yields a flatter spectrum, producing more power. The current LIGO results rule out the inflationary models of $$. The LIGO with its design sensitivity and the LISA will also be able to test the model of $$. We also examine the constraints on the spectral energy density of relic gravitational waves. Both the LIGO bound and the nucleosynthesis bound point out that the model $$ is ruled out, but the model $$ is still alive. The exact analytic results also confirm the approximate spectrum and the numerical one in our previous work.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0604456

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zbMATH Keywords

cosmological modelsgravitational waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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