Quest for CMB spectral distortions to probe the scalar-induced gravitational wave background interpretation of pulsar timing array data
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| author | Tagliazucchi, Matteo Braglia, Matteo Finelli, Fabio Pieroni, Mauro |
| author_facet | Tagliazucchi, Matteo Braglia, Matteo Finelli, Fabio Pieroni, Mauro |
| contents | Gravitational Waves (GW) sourced by second-order primordial curvature fluctuations are among the favored models fitting the recent pulsar timing array (PTA) measurement of a stochastic GW background (SGWB). We study how spectral distortions (SDs) and anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) can constrain such scalar fluctuations. Whereas COBE FIRAS data have no sufficient sensitivity to probe the PTA log-normal hypothesis, we show how future PIXIE-like experiments can detect the CMB SDs from the scalar-induced interpretation of the SGWB in PTA data. We finally show how the transformative synergy between PTA data and future CMB SD measurements is important for reconstructing primordial fluctuations at these small scales. |
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| spellingShingle | Quest for CMB spectral distortions to probe the scalar-induced gravitational wave background interpretation of pulsar timing array data Tagliazucchi, Matteo Braglia, Matteo Finelli, Fabio Pieroni, Mauro Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Gravitational Waves (GW) sourced by second-order primordial curvature fluctuations are among the favored models fitting the recent pulsar timing array (PTA) measurement of a stochastic GW background (SGWB). We study how spectral distortions (SDs) and anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) can constrain such scalar fluctuations. Whereas COBE FIRAS data have no sufficient sensitivity to probe the PTA log-normal hypothesis, we show how future PIXIE-like experiments can detect the CMB SDs from the scalar-induced interpretation of the SGWB in PTA data. We finally show how the transformative synergy between PTA data and future CMB SD measurements is important for reconstructing primordial fluctuations at these small scales. |
| title | Quest for CMB spectral distortions to probe the scalar-induced gravitational wave background interpretation of pulsar timing array data |
| topic | Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.08527 |