Large-Scale Structure with Gravitational Waves II: Shear
arXiv:1205.1514 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.86.083513
Abstract
The B-(curl-)mode of the correlation of galaxy ellipticities (shear) can be used to detect a stochastic gravitational wave background, such as that predicted by inflation. In this paper, we derive the tensor mode contributions to shear from both gravitational lensing and intrinsic alignments, using the gauge-invariant, full-sky results of arXiv:1204.3625. We find that the intrinsic alignment contribution, calculated using the linear alignment model, is larger than the lensing contribution by an order of magnitude or more, if the alignment strength for tensor modes is of the same order as for scalar modes. This contribution also extends to higher multipoles. These results make the prospects for probing tensor modes using galaxy surveys less pessimistic than previously thought, though still very challenging.
21 pages, 7 figures; v2: reflects PRD version, added section on second-order scalar B modes; v3: fixed typo in Eq. (A44)
References in corpus (6)
- Gravitational Wave Spectrum Induced by Primordial Scalar Perturbations
- Constraints on intrinsic alignment contamination of weak lensing surveys using the MegaZ-LRG sample
- Primordial gravity wave fossils and their use in testing inflation
- Lensing Bias in Cosmic Shear
- Large-Scale Structure with Gravitational Waves I: Galaxy Clustering
- Cosmic Shear from Scalar-Induced Gravitational Waves
Cited by in corpus (81)
- Large-Scale Galaxy Bias
- The Quest for B Modes from Inflationary Gravitational Waves
- Galaxy alignments: An overview
- The Intrinsic Alignment of Galaxies and its Impact on Weak Gravitational Lensing in an Era of Precision Cosmology
- The Observed Squeezed Limit of Cosmological Three-Point Functions
- Primordial Gravitational Waves from Axion-Gauge Fields Dynamics
- Tidal alignment of galaxies
- Imprint of inflation on galaxy shape correlations
- Imprints of Massive Primordial Fields on Large-Scale Structure
- Cosmological Information in the Intrinsic Alignments of Luminous Red Galaxies
- An EFT description of galaxy intrinsic alignments
- Large-Scale Structure and Gravitational Waves III: Tidal Effects
- Inflationary tensor fossils in large-scale structure
- Anisotropic imprint of long-wavelength tensor perturbations on cosmic structure
- Intrinsic alignments of disk and elliptical galaxies in the MassiveBlack-II and Illustris simulations
- Tensor Squeezed Limits and the Higuchi Bound
- Total Angular Momentum Waves for Scalar, Vector, and Tensor Fields
- Inflation and Early Dark Energy with a Stage II Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment
- Probing the imprint of interacting dark energy on very large scales
- Cosmological perturbation effects on gravitational-wave luminosity distance estimates
- Primordial Gravitational Waves from Galaxy Intrinsic Alignments
- Conformal Fermi Coordinates
- Large-Scale Structure with Gravitational Waves I: Galaxy Clustering
- Large-Scale Structure Observables in General Relativity
- Improving geometric and dynamical constraints on cosmology with intrinsic alignments of galaxies
- Galaxy imaging surveys as spin-sensitive detector for cosmological colliders
- Power spectrum of halo intrinsic alignments in simulations
- Can weak lensing surveys confirm BICEP2 ?
- Time evolution of intrinsic alignments of galaxies
- Anisotropies of galaxy ellipticity correlations in real and redshift space: angular dependence in linear tidal alignment model
- Fossilized Gravitational Wave Relic and Primordial Clocks
- Tightening geometric and dynamical constraints on dark energy and gravity: galaxy clustering, intrinsic alignment and kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect
- Galaxy Two-Point Correlation Function in General Relativity
- Cosmological simulation in tides: power spectra and halo shape responses, and shape assembly bias
- Intrinsic galaxy alignment from angular dependent primordial non-Gaussianity
- Intrinsic alignment statistics of density and velocity fields at large scales: Formulation, modeling, and baryon acoustic oscillation features
- Relativistic corrections and non-Gaussianity in radio continuum surveys
- Clustering Fossil from Primordial Gravitational Waves in Anisotropic Inflation
- Testing tidal alignment models for anisotropic correlations of halo ellipticities with N-body simulations
- Constraints on anisotropic primordial non-Gaussianity from intrinsic alignments of SDSS-III BOSS galaxies
- Clustering of quintessence on horizon scales and its imprint on HI intensity mapping
- Full-sky formulae for weak lensing power spectra from total angular momentum method
- Polarized primordial gravitational waves in spatial covariant gravities
- Gravitational wave astronomy with radio galaxy surveys
- Anisotropic separate universe simulations
- Field-level inference of galaxy intrinsic alignment from the SDSS-III BOSS survey
- Gravitational wave fossils in nonlinear regime: halo tidal bias and intrinsic alignments from gravitational wave separate universe simulations
- Gauge-Invariant Formalism of Cosmological Weak Lensing
- Quadratic shape biases in three-dimensional halo intrinsic alignments
- Lensing signals from Spin-2 perturbations
- Second-order gauge-invariant formalism for the cosmological observables: Complete verification of their gauge-invariance
- Lagrangian approach to super-sample effects on biased tracers at field level: galaxy density fields and intrinsic alignments
- Jacobi Mapping Approach for a Precise Cosmological Weak Lensing Formalism
- Cosmological Information Contents on the Light-Cone
- Analysis method for 3D power spectrum of projected tensor field with fast estimator and window convolution modelling: an application to intrinsic alignments
- Detecting relic gravitational waves in the CMB: The contamination caused by the cosmological birefringence
- Dark energy homogeneity in general relativity: Are we applying it correctly?
- Detecting primordial gravitational waves with circular polarization of the redshifted 21 cm line: I. Formalism
- Imprints of primordial magnetic fields on intrinsic alignments of galaxies
- Detecting primordial gravitational waves with circular polarization of the redshifted 21 cm line: II. Forecasts
- Relativistic distortions in galaxy density-ellipticity correlations: gravitational redshift and peculiar velocity effects
- Large-scale imprint of relativistic effects in the cosmic magnification
- Numerical Relativity Investigation of the Effects of Gravitational Waves on the Inhomogeneity of the Universe
- Extracting parity-violating gravitational waves from projected tidal force tensor in three dimensions
- Full-sky weak lensing: a nonlinear post-Friedmann treatment
- An Analytical Study of the Primordial Gravitational-Wave-Induced Contribution to the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe
- A rising tide: Intrinsic alignments since the turn of the millennium
- General Relativistic Effects in Weak Lensing Angular Power Spectra
- Squeezing Full-Shape Dynamical Dark Energy Constraints with Galaxy Alignments
- Establishing the origin of CMB B-mode polarization
- Understanding the relativistic overdensity of galaxy surveys
- Information content in anisotropic cosmological fields: Impact of different multipole expansion scheme for galaxy density and ellipticity correlations
- Novel Cosmological Tests from Combining Galaxy Lensing and the Polarized Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect
- Imprint of primordial gravitational wave with extremely low frequency on gravitational lens system
- Newtonian self-gravitating system in a relativistic huge void universe model
- Non-Gaussianity of Tensor Induced Density Perturbations
- Improving cosmological constraints via galaxy intrinsic alignment in full-shape analysis
- Parity Violation in Galaxy Shapes: Primordial Non-Gaussianity
- Signatures of primordial gravitational waves in matter power spectrum
- Signatures of Primordial Gravitational Waves on the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe
- The gauge invariant cosmological Jacobi map from weak lensing at leading order