Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-01-23
Phys.Rev.D79:124003,2009
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Published in Physical Review D, Conclusions changed - signal not detectable - cosmic variance dominated
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.79.124003
A gravitational wave traversing the line of sight to a distant source produces a frequency shift which contributes to redshift space distortion. As a consequence, gravitational waves are imprinted as density fluctuations in redshift space. The gravitational wave contribution to the redshift space power spectrum. has a different \mu dependence as compared to the dominant contribution from peculiar velocities. This allows the two signals to be separated. The prospect of a detection is most favourable at the highest observable redshift z. Observations of redshifted 21-cm radiation from neutral hydrogen (HI) hold the possibility of probing very high redshifts. We consider the possibility of detecting primordial gravitational waves using the redshift space HI power spectrum. However, we find that the gravitational wave signal, though present, will not be detectable on super-horizon scales because of cosmic variance and on sub-horizon scales where the signal is highly suppressed.
Bharadwaj Somnath
Sarkar Tapomoy Guha
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