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+1 New constraints on primordial gravitational waves from Planck 2015.

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  • New constraints on primordial gravitational waves from Planck 2015.- [PDF] - [Article]

    Luca Pagano, Laura Salvati, Alessandro Melchiorri
     

    We show that the new precise measurements of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarization anisotropies made by the Planck satellite significantly improves previous constraints on the cosmic gravitational waves background (CGWB) at frequencies $f>10^{-15}$ Hz. On scales smaller than the comoving horizon at the time of decoupling, primordial gravitational waves contribute to the total radiation content of the Universe. Considering adiabatic perturbations, CGWB affects temperature and polarization CMB power spectra and matter power spectrum in a manner identical to relativistic particles. Considering the latest Planck results we constrain the CGWB energy density to $\Omega_{\rm gw} h^2 <2.5\times 10^{-6} $ at 95\% c.l. Combining CMB power spectra with lensing, BAO and primordial Deuterium abundance observations, we obtain $\Omega_{\rm gw} h^2 <1.7\times 10^{-6} $ at 95\% c.l., improving previous cosmological bounds by a factor 5 and the recent direct upper limit from the LIGO and VIRGO experiments by 50\%. A combined analysis of future satellite missions as CORE and EUCLID could improve current bound by a factor $\sim20$.

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