Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-05-29
Phys.Rev.D76:061302,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
4 pages, laTeX; added a clarifying comment in the conclusions, version matches publication in PRD, Rapid Communications
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.061302
The curvaton scenario for the generation of the cosmological curvature perturbation on large scales represents an alternative to the standard slow-roll scenario of inflation in which the observed density perturbations are due to fluctuations of the inflaton field itself. Its basic assumption is that the initial curvature perturbation due to the inflaton field is negligible. This is attained by lowering the energy scale of inflation, thereby highly suppressing the amount of gravitational waves produced during inflation. We compute the power-spectrum of the gravitational waves generated at second order in perturbation theory by the curvaton (isocurvature) perturbations between the end of inflation and the curvaton decay. An interesting property of this contribution to the tensor perturbations is that it is directly proportional to the amount of non-Gaussianity predicted within the curvaton scenario. We show that the spectrum of gravitational waves may be in the range of future gravitational wave detectors.
Bartolo Nicola
Matarrese Sabino
Riotto Antonio
Vaihkonen Antti
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