Observational constraints on light cosmic strings from photometry and pulsar timing

Details Observational constraints on light cosmic strings from photometry and pulsar timing Observational constraints on light cosmic strings from photometry and pulsar timing

2009-11-25

arxiv.org/abs/0911.4955v1

Phys.Rev.D81:083519,2010

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

9 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.81.083519

We constrain the cosmological density of cosmic string loops using two observational signatures -- gravitational microlensing and the Kaiser-Stebbins effect. Photometry from RXTE and CoRoT space missions and pulsar timing from Parkes Pulsar Timing Array, Arecibo and Green Bank radio telescopes allow us to probe cosmic strings in a wide range of tensions $G\mu/c^2=10^{-16}\div10^{-10}$. We find that pulsar timing data provide the most stringent constraints on the abundance of light strings at the level $\Omega_s \sim 10^{-3}$. Future observational facilities such as the Square Kilometer Array will allow one to improve these constraints by orders of magnitude.

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