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The stochastic gravitational-wave background produced by non-linear cosmological perturbations

arXiv:astro-ph/9705168

Abstract

The cosmological stochastic gravitational-wave background produced by the mildly non-linear evolution of density fluctuations is analyzed, in the frame of an Einstein-de Sitter model, by means of a fully relativistic perturbation expansion up to second order. The form of these gravitational-instability-induced gravitational waves is gauge-dependent. In the synchronous gauge, where the second-order expansion is most easily carried out, the transverse and traceless tensor modes which are produced also contain a Newtonian and post-Newtonian piece, whose interpretation as gravitational waves is non-trivial. A more direct physical understanding of this background is obtained in the so-called Poisson gauge, where it is seen to consist of a constant term plus an oscillating piece whose amplitude decays inside the Hubble radius.

14 pages, in Latex using ere96.sty (included). Invited talk at the Spanish Relativity Meeting (ERE-96), Valencia 1996, J.A. Miralles, J.A. Morales & D. Saez eds

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