Physical Review DPub Date : 2024-11-08DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.110.103506
Felix Brümmer, Giacomo Ferrante, Michele Frigerio
{"title":"Hybrid inflation and gravitational waves from accidentally light scalars","authors":"Felix Brümmer, Giacomo Ferrante, Michele Frigerio","doi":"10.1103/physrevd.110.103506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.110.103506","url":null,"abstract":"We construct a hybrid-inflation model where the inflaton potential is generated radiatively, as gauge symmetries guarantee it to be accidentally flat at tree level. The model can be regarded as a small-field version of natural inflation, with inflation ending when the mass of a second scalar, the waterfall field, turns tachyonic. This provides a minimal, robust realization of hybrid inflation, which predicts specific correlations among cosmic microwave background observables. Tachyonic preheating leads to the production of gravitational waves which, for a low inflationary scale, might be detected by upcoming experiments. Simple variations of the model can give rise to topological defects, such as unstable domain walls. Their dynamics produces a stochastic gravitational-wave background, which can be compatible with the recent detection by pulsar timing arrays.","PeriodicalId":20167,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review D","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142598155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physical Review DPub Date : 2024-11-08DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.110.103008
Zi-Chang Zhang, Yong Tang
{"title":"Velocity distribution of dark matter in spikes around Schwarzschild black holes and effects on gravitational waves from extreme-mass-ratio inspirals","authors":"Zi-Chang Zhang, Yong Tang","doi":"10.1103/physrevd.110.103008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.110.103008","url":null,"abstract":"Dark matter (DM) constitutes the predominant portion of matter in our Universe. Despite compelling evidence, the precise characteristics of DM remain elusive. Among the leading DM candidates are weakly interacting massive particles, which may clump into steep concentrations around the central black holes of galaxies. However, DM profiles of the resulting dense spikes remain uncertain. Here we employ the relativistic dynamics in Schwarzschild geometry and first evaluate the velocity distributions of DM within such spikes. Through variations in black hole masses and dark halo parameters, we identify universal features in DM profiles and fit them with Gaussian distributions. Additionally, we illustrate the impact of dynamical friction on gravitational waves generated by extreme-mass-ratio inspirals within DM spikes, taking into account the velocity distribution of DM in the relativistic regime. Our findings demonstrate the phase shifts in the time-domain waveform, potentially providing useful insights for probing DM in galactic centers by gravitational-wave experiments.","PeriodicalId":20167,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review D","volume":"70 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142597259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physical Review DPub Date : 2024-11-08DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.110.104018
Alan Tsz-Lok Lam, Hao-Jui Kuan, Masaru Shibata, Karim Van Aelst, Kenta Kiuchi
{"title":"Binary neutron star mergers in massive scalar-tensor theory: Properties of postmerger remnants","authors":"Alan Tsz-Lok Lam, Hao-Jui Kuan, Masaru Shibata, Karim Van Aelst, Kenta Kiuchi","doi":"10.1103/physrevd.110.104018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.110.104018","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate the properties of postmerger remnants of binary neutron star mergers in the framework of Damour–Esposito-Farese-type scalar-tensor theory of gravity with a massive scalar field by numerical relativity simulation. It is found that the threshold mass for prompt collapse is raised in the presence of the excited scalar field. Our simulation results also suggest the existence of a long-lived <mjx-container ctxtmenu_counter=\"75\" ctxtmenu_oldtabindex=\"1\" jax=\"CHTML\" overflow=\"linebreak\" role=\"tree\" sre-explorer- style=\"font-size: 100.7%;\" tabindex=\"0\"><mjx-math data-semantic-structure=\"0\"><mjx-mi data-semantic-annotation=\"clearspeak:simple\" data-semantic-font=\"italic\" data-semantic- data-semantic-role=\"greekletter\" data-semantic-speech=\"phi\" data-semantic-type=\"identifier\"><mjx-c>𝜙</mjx-c></mjx-mi></mjx-math></mjx-container> mode in hypermassive neutron stars due to the presence of the massive scalar field that enhances the quasiradial oscillation in the remnant. We investigate the descalarization condition in hypermassive neutron stars and discover a distinctive signature in postmerger gravitational waves.","PeriodicalId":20167,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review D","volume":"95 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142597254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physical Review DPub Date : 2024-11-08DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.110.103006
Masato Shirasaki, Cristóbal Sifón, Hironao Miyatake, Erwin Lau, Zhuowen Zhang, Neta Bahcall, Nicholas Battaglia, Mark Devlin, Jo Dunkley, Arya Farahi, Matt Hilton, Yen-Ting Lin, Daisuke Nagai, Suzanne T. Staggs, Tomomi Sunayama, David Spergel, Edward J. Wollack
{"title":"Masses of Sunyaev-Zel’dovich galaxy clusters detected by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Stacked lensing measurements with Subaru HSC year 3 data","authors":"Masato Shirasaki, Cristóbal Sifón, Hironao Miyatake, Erwin Lau, Zhuowen Zhang, Neta Bahcall, Nicholas Battaglia, Mark Devlin, Jo Dunkley, Arya Farahi, Matt Hilton, Yen-Ting Lin, Daisuke Nagai, Suzanne T. Staggs, Tomomi Sunayama, David Spergel, Edward J. Wollack","doi":"10.1103/physrevd.110.103006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.110.103006","url":null,"abstract":"We present a stacked lensing analysis of 96 galaxy clusters selected by the thermal Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (SZ) effect in maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We select foreground galaxy clusters with a <mjx-container ctxtmenu_counter=\"96\" ctxtmenu_oldtabindex=\"1\" jax=\"CHTML\" overflow=\"linebreak\" role=\"tree\" sre-explorer- style=\"font-size: 100.7%;\" tabindex=\"0\"><mjx-math data-semantic-structure=\"(3 0 2 1)\"><mjx-mrow data-semantic-annotation=\"clearspeak:simple;clearspeak:unit\" data-semantic-children=\"0,1\" data-semantic-content=\"2\" data-semantic- data-semantic-owns=\"0 2 1\" data-semantic-role=\"implicit\" data-semantic-speech=\"5 sigma\" data-semantic-type=\"infixop\"><mjx-mn data-semantic-annotation=\"clearspeak:simple\" data-semantic-font=\"normal\" data-semantic- data-semantic-parent=\"3\" data-semantic-role=\"integer\" data-semantic-type=\"number\"><mjx-c>5</mjx-c></mjx-mn><mjx-mo data-semantic-added=\"true\" data-semantic- data-semantic-operator=\"infixop,\" data-semantic-parent=\"3\" data-semantic-role=\"multiplication\" data-semantic-type=\"operator\"><mjx-c></mjx-c></mjx-mo><mjx-mi data-semantic-annotation=\"clearspeak:simple\" data-semantic-font=\"italic\" data-semantic- data-semantic-parent=\"3\" data-semantic-role=\"greekletter\" data-semantic-type=\"identifier\"><mjx-c>𝜎</mjx-c></mjx-mi></mjx-mrow></mjx-math></mjx-container>-level SZ threshold in CMB observations from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, while we define background source galaxies for the lensing analysis with secure photometric redshift cuts in Year 3 data of the Subaru Hyper Suprime Cam survey. We detect the stacked lensing signal in the range of <mjx-container ctxtmenu_counter=\"97\" ctxtmenu_oldtabindex=\"1\" jax=\"CHTML\" overflow=\"linebreak\" role=\"tree\" sre-explorer- style=\"font-size: 100.7%;\" tabindex=\"0\"><mjx-math data-semantic-structure=\"(20 0 1 (19 2 18 (17 3 (16 (8 4 (7 5 6)) 9 10) 11)) 12 13)\"><mjx-mrow data-semantic-children=\"0,19,13\" data-semantic-content=\"1,12\" data-semantic- data-semantic-owns=\"0 1 19 12 13\" data-semantic-role=\"inequality\" data-semantic-speech=\"0.1 less than upper R left bracket h Superscript negative 1 Baseline upper M p c right bracket less than 100\" data-semantic-type=\"relseq\"><mjx-mn data-semantic-annotation=\"clearspeak:simple\" data-semantic-font=\"normal\" data-semantic- data-semantic-parent=\"20\" data-semantic-role=\"float\" data-semantic-type=\"number\"><mjx-c noic=\"true\" style=\"padding-top: 0.642em;\">0</mjx-c><mjx-c noic=\"true\" style=\"padding-top: 0.642em;\">.</mjx-c><mjx-c style=\"padding-top: 0.642em;\">1</mjx-c></mjx-mn><mjx-mo data-semantic- data-semantic-operator=\"relseq,<\" data-semantic-parent=\"20\" data-semantic-role=\"inequality\" data-semantic-type=\"relation\" space=\"4\"><mjx-c><</mjx-c></mjx-mo><mjx-mrow data-semantic-added=\"true\" data-semantic-children=\"2,17\" data-semantic-content=\"18,2\" data-semantic- data-semantic-owns=\"2 18 17\" data-semantic-parent=\"20\" data-semantic-role=\"simple function\" data-semantic-type=\"appl\" space=\"4\"><mjx-mi data-semantic-annotation=\"clea","PeriodicalId":20167,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review D","volume":"95 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142597260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physical Review DPub Date : 2024-11-08DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.110.104016
Kristina Giesel, Hongguang Liu, Parampreet Singh, Stefan Andreas Weigl
{"title":"Generalized analysis of a dust collapse in effective loop quantum gravity: Fate of shocks and covariance","authors":"Kristina Giesel, Hongguang Liu, Parampreet Singh, Stefan Andreas Weigl","doi":"10.1103/physrevd.110.104016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.110.104016","url":null,"abstract":"Based on modifications inspired from loop quantum gravity (LQG), spherically symmetric models have recently been explored to understand the resolution of classical singularities and the fate of the spacetime beyond. While such phenomenological studies have provided useful insights, questions remain on whether such models exhibit some of the desired properties such as consistent LTB conditions, covariance, and compatibility with the improved dynamics of loop quantum cosmology in the cosmological and LTB sector. We provide a systematic procedure to construct effective spherically symmetric models encoding LQG modifications as a <mjx-container ctxtmenu_counter=\"18\" ctxtmenu_oldtabindex=\"1\" jax=\"CHTML\" overflow=\"linebreak\" role=\"tree\" sre-explorer- style=\"font-size: 100.7%;\" tabindex=\"0\"><mjx-math breakable=\"true\" data-semantic-children=\"0,2\" data-semantic-content=\"1\" data-semantic- data-semantic-owns=\"0 1 2\" data-semantic-role=\"addition\" data-semantic-speech=\"1 plus 1\" data-semantic-structure=\"(3 0 1 2)\" data-semantic-type=\"infixop\"><mjx-mn data-semantic-annotation=\"clearspeak:simple\" data-semantic-font=\"normal\" data-semantic- data-semantic-parent=\"3\" data-semantic-role=\"integer\" data-semantic-type=\"number\"><mjx-c>1</mjx-c></mjx-mn><mjx-break size=\"3\"></mjx-break><mjx-mo data-semantic- data-semantic-operator=\"infixop,+\" data-semantic-parent=\"3\" data-semantic-role=\"addition\" data-semantic-type=\"operator\"><mjx-c>+</mjx-c></mjx-mo><mjx-mn data-semantic-annotation=\"clearspeak:simple\" data-semantic-font=\"normal\" data-semantic- data-semantic-parent=\"3\" data-semantic-role=\"integer\" data-semantic-type=\"number\" space=\"3\"><mjx-c>1</mjx-c></mjx-mn></mjx-math></mjx-container> field theory models encoding these properties following the analysis in our companion paper [K. Giesel <i>et al.</i>, Embedding generalized LTB models in polymerized spherically symmetric spacetimes, <span>Phys. Rev. D</span> <b>110</b>, 104017 (2024)]. As concrete examples of our generalized strategy, we obtain and compare with different phenomenological models, which have been investigated recently and demonstrate resolution of singularity by quantum geometry effects via a bounce. These include models with areal gauge fixing, a polymerized vacuum solution, polymerized junction conditions, and an Oppenheimer-Snyder dust collapse model. An important insight from our approach is that the dynamical equations care about the <mjx-container ctxtmenu_counter=\"19\" ctxtmenu_oldtabindex=\"1\" jax=\"CHTML\" overflow=\"linebreak\" role=\"tree\" sre-explorer- style=\"font-size: 100.7%;\" tabindex=\"0\"><mjx-math data-semantic-annotation=\"clearspeak:simple\" data-semantic-children=\"0,4\" data-semantic-content=\"5,0\" data-semantic- data-semantic-owns=\"0 5 4\" data-semantic-role=\"prefix function\" data-semantic-speech=\"det left parenthesis e right parenthesis\" data-semantic-structure=\"(6 0 5 (4 1 2 3))\" data-semantic-type=\"appl\"><mjx-mi data-semantic-font=\"normal\" data-semantic- data-semantic-operator=\"appl\" data-semanti","PeriodicalId":20167,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review D","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142597256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physical Review DPub Date : 2024-11-08DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.110.103508
Conghao Zhou, Hao-Yi Wu, Andrés N. Salcedo, Sebastian Grandis, Tesla Jeltema, Alexie Leauthaud, Matteo Costanzi, Tomomi Sunayama, David H. Weinberg, Tianyu Zhang, Eduardo Rozo, Chun-Hao To, Sebastian Bocquet, Tamas Varga, Matthew Kwiecien
{"title":"Forecasting the constraints on optical selection bias and projection effects of galaxy cluster lensing with multiwavelength data","authors":"Conghao Zhou, Hao-Yi Wu, Andrés N. Salcedo, Sebastian Grandis, Tesla Jeltema, Alexie Leauthaud, Matteo Costanzi, Tomomi Sunayama, David H. Weinberg, Tianyu Zhang, Eduardo Rozo, Chun-Hao To, Sebastian Bocquet, Tamas Varga, Matthew Kwiecien","doi":"10.1103/physrevd.110.103508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.110.103508","url":null,"abstract":"Galaxy clusters identified with optical imaging tend to suffer from projection effects, which impact richness (the number of member galaxies in a cluster) and lensing coherently. Physically unassociated galaxies can be mistaken as cluster members due to the significant uncertainties in their line-of-sight distances, thereby changing the observed cluster richness; at the same time, projection effects alter the weak gravitational lensing signals of clusters, leading to a correlated scatter between richness and lensing at a given halo mass. As a result, the lensing signals for optically selected clusters tend to be biased high. This optical selection bias problem of cluster lensing is one of the key challenges in cluster cosmology. Fortunately, recently available multiwavelength observations of clusters provide a solution. We analyze a simulated dataset mimicking the observed lensing of clusters identified by both optical photometry and gas properties, aiming to constrain this selection bias. Assuming a redMaPPer sample from the Dark Energy Survey with South Pole Telescope Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect observations, we find that an overlapping survey of <mjx-container ctxtmenu_counter=\"13\" ctxtmenu_oldtabindex=\"1\" jax=\"CHTML\" overflow=\"linebreak\" role=\"tree\" sre-explorer- style=\"font-size: 100.7%;\" tabindex=\"0\"><mjx-math data-semantic-structure=\"(9 0 1 2 (5 3 4))\"><mjx-mrow data-semantic-children=\"0,1,2,5\" data-semantic-collapsed=\"(9 (c 6 7 8) 0 1 2 5)\" data-semantic- data-semantic-owns=\"0 1 2 5\" data-semantic-role=\"text\" data-semantic-speech=\"1300 degree squared\" data-semantic-type=\"punctuated\"><mjx-mn data-semantic-annotation=\"clearspeak:simple\" data-semantic-font=\"normal\" data-semantic- data-semantic-parent=\"9\" data-semantic-role=\"integer\" data-semantic-type=\"number\"><mjx-c noic=\"true\" style=\"padding-top: 0.644em;\">1</mjx-c><mjx-c noic=\"true\" style=\"padding-top: 0.644em;\">3</mjx-c><mjx-c noic=\"true\" style=\"padding-top: 0.644em;\">0</mjx-c><mjx-c style=\"padding-top: 0.644em;\">0</mjx-c></mjx-mn><mjx-mtext data-semantic-annotation=\"clearspeak:unit\" data-semantic- data-semantic-parent=\"9\" data-semantic-role=\"space\" data-semantic-type=\"text\" style='font-family: MJX-STX-ZERO, \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;'><mjx-utext style=\"font-size: 90.6%; padding: 0.828em 0px 0.221em; width: 3px;\" variant=\"-explicitFont\"> </mjx-utext></mjx-mtext><mjx-mtext data-semantic-annotation=\"clearspeak:unit\" data-semantic- data-semantic-parent=\"9\" data-semantic-role=\"space\" data-semantic-type=\"text\" style='font-family: MJX-STX-ZERO, \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;'><mjx-utext style=\"font-size: 90.6%; padding: 0.828em 0px 0.221em; width: 3px;\" variant=\"-explicitFont\"> </mjx-utext></mjx-mtext><mjx-mrow><mjx-msup data-semantic-children=\"3,4\" data-semantic- data-semantic-owns=\"3 4\" data-semantic-parent=\"9\" data-semantic-role=\"prefix function\" data-semantic-type=\"superscript\"><mjx-mrow><mjx-mi data-semantic-font=\"normal\" data-semantic- d","PeriodicalId":20167,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review D","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142597258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}