Detecting relic gravitational radiation from string cosmology with LIGO
- 15 March 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 55 (6) , 3260-3264
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.55.3260
Abstract
A characteristic spectrum of relic gravitational radiation is produced by a period of “stringy inflation” in the early Universe. This spectrum is unusual, because the energy density rises rapidly with frequency. We show that correlation experiments with the two gravitational-wave detectors being built for the Laser Interferometric Gravitational Wave Observatory could detect this relic radiation for certain ranges of the parameters that characterize the underlying string cosmology model.Keywords
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