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Search for a Scalar Induced Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background in the Third LIGO-Virgo Observing Run

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Alba Romero-Rodríguez, Mario Martínez, Oriol Pujolàs, Mairi Sakellariadou, Ville Vaskonen

Original languageEnglish
Article number051301
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume128
Issue number5
DOIs
Published4 Feb 2022
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Funding Information: The authors would like to thank T. Callister for his assistance with the Bayesian search code. The authors are grateful for computational resources provided by the LIGO Laboratory and supported by National Science Foundation Grants No. PHY-0757058 and No. PHY-0823459. This paper has been given LIGO DCC No. LIGO-P2100271 and Virgo TDS No. VIR-0886A-21. This work is partially supported by the Spanish MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 under Grants No. SEV-2016-0588, No. PGC2018-101858-B-I00, No. PID2020–113701 GB-I00, and No. FPA2017-88915-P, some of which include ERDF funds from the European Union, as well as Grant No. 2017-SGR-1069 from Generalitat de Catalunya. IFAE is partially funded by the CERCA program of the Generalitat de Catalunya. M. S. is supported in part by the Science and Technology Facility Council (STFC), United Kingdom, under the research Grant No. ST/P000258/1. Funding Information: The authors would like to thank T. Callister for his assistance with the Bayesian search code. The authors are grateful for computational resources provided by the LIGO Laboratory and supported by National Science Foundation Grants No. PHY-0757058 and No. PHY-0823459. This paper has been given LIGO DCC No. LIGO-P2100271 and Virgo TDS No. VIR-0886A-21. This work is partially supported by the Spanish MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 under Grants No. SEV-2016-0588, No. PGC2018-101858-B-I00, No. PID2020-113701 GB-I00, and No. FPA2017-88915-P, some of which include ERDF funds from the European Union, as well as Grant No. 2017-SGR-1069 from Generalitat de Catalunya. IFAE is partially funded by the CERCA program of the Generalitat de Catalunya. M. S. is supported in part by the Science and Technology Facility Council (STFC), United Kingdom, under the research Grant No. ST/P000258/1. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 American Physical Society

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Abstract

The formation of primordial black holes from inflationary fluctuations is accompanied by a scalar induced gravitational wave background. We perform a Bayesian search of such background in the data from Advanced LIGO and Virgo’s first, second, and third observing runs, parametrizing the peak in the curvature power spectrum by a log-normal distribution. The search shows no evidence for such a background. We place 95% confidence level upper limits on the integrated power of the curvature power spectrum peak which, for a narrow width, reaches down to 0.02 at Formula Presented. The resulting constraints are stronger than those arising from big bang nucleosynthesis or cosmic microwave background observations. In addition, we find that the constraints from LIGO and Virgo, at their design sensitivity, and from the Einstein Telescope can compete with those related to the abundance of the formed primordial black holes.

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