Gravitational wave background from quintessential inflation and NANOGrav data
Barnali Das, Nur Jaman, M. Sami
Abstract
We investigate the production process of induced gravity waves due to large scalar fluctuations in the paradigm of quintessential inflation. We numerically solve the Mukhanov-Sasaki equation for different sets of parameters to obtain the power spectra. We demonstrate that the induced gravity wave signal generated in this framework can fall within the region of the NANOGrav data for chosen values of model parameters. We show that there is an allowed region of parameter space where the effect shifts to the high-frequency regime relevant to the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna and other available sensitivities.
Topics & Concepts
Gravitational wavePhysicsInflation (cosmology)Parameter spaceInterferometryScalar (mathematics)Space (punctuation)Spectral densitySpectral lineTheoretical physicsAstrophysicsOpticsAstronomyComputer scienceTelecommunicationsStatisticsMathematicsGeometryOperating systemCosmology and Gravitation TheoriesSolar and Space Plasma DynamicsGeophysics and Gravity Measurements