Polarized gravitational waves from cosmological phase transitions

被引:48
作者
Kisslinger, Leonard [1 ,2 ]
Kahniashvili, Tina [1 ,2 ,3 ,4 ]
机构
[1] Carnegie Mellon Univ, McWilliams Ctr Cosmol, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[2] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Dept Phys, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[3] Laurentian Univ, Dept Phys, Sudbury, ON P3E 2C, Canada
[4] Ilia State Univ, Abastumani Astrophys Observ, GE-0194 Tbilisi, Georgia
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2015年 / 92卷 / 04期
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
MAGNETIC-FIELDS; RADIATION; GENERATION; BUBBLES; STATE;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.92.043006
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We estimate the degree of circular polarization for the gravitational waves generated during the electroweak and QCD phase transitions from the kinetic and magnetic helicity generated by bubble collisions during those cosmological phase transitions.
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