Published October 15, 2004
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Journal article
Relic gravitational waves and present accelerated expansion
Creators
- 1. Departamento de Fisica, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona (Spain)
Description
We calculate the current power spectrum of the gravitational waves created at the big bang (and later amplified by the different transitions during the Universe expansion) taking into account the present stage of accelerated expansion. Likewise, we determine the power spectrum in a hypothetical second dust era that would follow the present one if at some future time the dark energy, that supposedly drives the current accelerated expansion, evolved in such a way that it became dynamically equivalent to cold dark matter. The calculated power spectrums as well as the evolution of the density parameter of the waves may serve to discriminate between different phases of expansion and may help ascertain the nature of dark energy
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.70.084034;
- arXiv
- arXiv:astro-ph/0409364v1;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
- Journal Volume
- 70
- Journal Issue
- 8
- Journal Page Range
- p. 084034-084034.10
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDAQ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 37020696
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- COSMOLOGY; DENSITY; ENERGY SPECTRA; EXPANSION; GRAVITATIONAL WAVES; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; UNIVERSE
- Descriptors DEC
- MATTER; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; SPECTRA
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2004 The American Physical Society