Journal
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2015/02/003
Keywords
primordial gravitational waves (theory); physics of the early universe; gravitational waves and CMBR polarization
Funding
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Japan [24-2775, 23740195]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23740195] Funding Source: KAKEN
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We investigate constraints on the spectral index of primordial gravitational waves (GWs), paying particular attention to a blue-tilted spectrum. Such constraints can be used to test a certain class of models of the early Universe. We investigate observational bounds from LIGO+Virgo, pulsar timing and big bang nucleosynthesis, taking into account the suppression of the amplitude at high frequencies due to reheating after inflation and also late-time entropy production. Constraints on the spectral index are presented by changing values of parameters such as reheating temperatures and the amount of entropy produced at late time. We also consider constraints under the general modeling approach which can approximately describe various scenarios of the early Universe. We show that the constraints on the blue spectral tilt strongly depend on the underlying assumption and, in some cases, a highly blue-tilted spectrum can still be allowed.
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