Pub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2024/10/010
Raphaël Picard and Karim A. Malik
Scalar induced gravitational waves contribute to the cosmological gravitational wave background. They can be related to the primordial density power spectrum produced towards the end of inflation and therefore are a convenient new tool to constrain models of inflation. These waves are sourced by terms quadratic in perturbations and hence appear at second order in cosmological perturbation theory. While the focus of research so far was on purely scalar source terms we also study the effect of including first order tensor perturbations as an additional source. This gives rise to two additional source terms: a term quadratic in the tensor perturbations and a cross term involving mixed scalar and tensor perturbations. We present full analytical expressions for the spectral density of these new source terms and discuss their general behaviour. To illustrate the generation mechanism we study two toy models containing a peak on small scales. For these models we show that the scalar-tensor contribution becomes non-negligible compared to the scalar-scalar contribution on smaller scales. We also consider implications for future gravitational wave surveys.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2024/10/008
Gideon Ilani, Kuan-Chou Hou and Uri Keshet
We detect a highly significant excess of X-ray (2RXS) and radio (NVSS, GMRT, VLSSr) catalog sources when stacked around MCXC galaxy clusters and groups, narrowly confined within ≲ 100 kpc of the ∼ 2.4 R500 virial shock radius (inferred from previous continuum stacking), with similar X-ray (∼ 4σ for 443 clusters) and radio (∼ 4σ for 485 clusters) characteristics (> 5σ joint). The excess sources show 10–100 kpc scales, LX(0.1 – 2.4 keV)≃ 1042-43 erg s-1 or νLν(ν = 1.4 GHz) ≃ 1040-41 erg s-1 luminosities, and a preferentially radial radio-polarization. The narrow localization and properties of the excess identify these sources not as AGN, often invoked speculatively for excess X-ray sources at cluster outskirts, but rather as infalling gaseous clumps interacting with the virial shock, probably galactic halos and possibly outflow remnants. The local excess of such discrete, radio-to-γ-ray sources around an object can probe its virial shock also at high redshifts and sub-cluster scales.
{"title":"Excess cataloged X-ray and radio sources at galaxy-cluster virial shocks","authors":"Gideon Ilani, Kuan-Chou Hou and Uri Keshet","doi":"10.1088/1475-7516/2024/10/008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2024/10/008","url":null,"abstract":"We detect a highly significant excess of X-ray (2RXS) and radio (NVSS, GMRT, VLSSr) catalog sources when stacked around MCXC galaxy clusters and groups, narrowly confined within ≲ 100 kpc of the ∼ 2.4 R500 virial shock radius (inferred from previous continuum stacking), with similar X-ray (∼ 4σ for 443 clusters) and radio (∼ 4σ for 485 clusters) characteristics (> 5σ joint). The excess sources show 10–100 kpc scales, LX(0.1 – 2.4 keV)≃ 1042-43 erg s-1 or νLν(ν = 1.4 GHz) ≃ 1040-41 erg s-1 luminosities, and a preferentially radial radio-polarization. The narrow localization and properties of the excess identify these sources not as AGN, often invoked speculatively for excess X-ray sources at cluster outskirts, but rather as infalling gaseous clumps interacting with the virial shock, probably galactic halos and possibly outflow remnants. The local excess of such discrete, radio-to-γ-ray sources around an object can probe its virial shock also at high redshifts and sub-cluster scales.","PeriodicalId":15445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142363035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2024/10/007
Stefan Antusch, Kevin Hinze and Shaikh Saad
In a recent paper (Phys. Rev. D 108 (2023) 095053), we have demonstrated that the 2023 PTA results, which hint at a stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background at nanohertz frequencies, point towards a promising model-building route for realizing SO(10) Grand Unification with embedded inflation. The proposed supersymmetric scenario solves the doublet-triplet splitting without fine-tuning, accounts for charged fermion and neutrino masses, avoids conflicts with current proton decay bounds, and includes only representations no larger than the adjoint. It features multi-step breaking of SO(10) to the Standard Model gauge symmetry, with inflation embedded such that metastable cosmic strings are produced at the end of inflation. This cosmic string network generates a stochastic GW background that can explain the PTA results. In this paper, we provide a detailed analysis of the singled out GUT model class, focusing on how the gauge coupling unification condition affects the scales of multi-step SO(10) breaking and the preferred GW spectra. The lowest breaking scale, linked to inflation, the generation of right-handed neutrino masses for the seesaw mechanism, and metastable cosmic string production, coincides with the range suggested by the PTA results.
{"title":"Explaining PTA results by metastable cosmic strings from SO(10) GUT","authors":"Stefan Antusch, Kevin Hinze and Shaikh Saad","doi":"10.1088/1475-7516/2024/10/007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2024/10/007","url":null,"abstract":"In a recent paper (Phys. Rev. D 108 (2023) 095053), we have demonstrated that the 2023 PTA results, which hint at a stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background at nanohertz frequencies, point towards a promising model-building route for realizing SO(10) Grand Unification with embedded inflation. The proposed supersymmetric scenario solves the doublet-triplet splitting without fine-tuning, accounts for charged fermion and neutrino masses, avoids conflicts with current proton decay bounds, and includes only representations no larger than the adjoint. It features multi-step breaking of SO(10) to the Standard Model gauge symmetry, with inflation embedded such that metastable cosmic strings are produced at the end of inflation. This cosmic string network generates a stochastic GW background that can explain the PTA results. In this paper, we provide a detailed analysis of the singled out GUT model class, focusing on how the gauge coupling unification condition affects the scales of multi-step SO(10) breaking and the preferred GW spectra. The lowest breaking scale, linked to inflation, the generation of right-handed neutrino masses for the seesaw mechanism, and metastable cosmic string production, coincides with the range suggested by the PTA results.","PeriodicalId":15445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142363034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-09-30DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2024/10/002
Benito A. Juárez-Aubry, Bernard S. Kay, Tonatiuh Miramontes and Daniel Sudarsky
Given a Cauchy surface in a curved spacetime and a suitably defined quantum state on the CCR algebra of the Klein-Gordon quantum field on that surface, we show, by expanding the squared spacetime geodesic distance and the 'U' and 'V' Hadamard coefficients (and suitable derivatives thereof) in sufficiently accurate covariant Taylor expansions on the surface that the renormalized expectation value of the quantum stress-energy tensor on the surface is determined by the geometry of the surface and the first 4 time derivatives of the metric off the surface, in addition to the Cauchy data for the field's two-point function. This result has been anticipated in and is motivated by a previous investigation by the authors on the initial value problem in semiclassical gravity, for which the geometric initial data corresponds, a priori, to the spatial metric on the surface and up to 3 time derivatives off the surface, but where it was argued that the fourth derivative can be obtained with aid of the field equations on the initial surface.
{"title":"The Hadamard condition on a Cauchy surface and the renormalized stress-energy tensor","authors":"Benito A. Juárez-Aubry, Bernard S. Kay, Tonatiuh Miramontes and Daniel Sudarsky","doi":"10.1088/1475-7516/2024/10/002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2024/10/002","url":null,"abstract":"Given a Cauchy surface in a curved spacetime and a suitably defined quantum state on the CCR algebra of the Klein-Gordon quantum field on that surface, we show, by expanding the squared spacetime geodesic distance and the 'U' and 'V' Hadamard coefficients (and suitable derivatives thereof) in sufficiently accurate covariant Taylor expansions on the surface that the renormalized expectation value of the quantum stress-energy tensor on the surface is determined by the geometry of the surface and the first 4 time derivatives of the metric off the surface, in addition to the Cauchy data for the field's two-point function. This result has been anticipated in and is motivated by a previous investigation by the authors on the initial value problem in semiclassical gravity, for which the geometric initial data corresponds, a priori, to the spatial metric on the surface and up to 3 time derivatives off the surface, but where it was argued that the fourth derivative can be obtained with aid of the field equations on the initial surface.","PeriodicalId":15445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142363041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-09-30DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2024/10/003
Leon Noble, Mohd Kamran, Suman Majumdar, Chandra Shekhar Murmu, Raghunath Ghara, Garrelt Mellema, Ilian T. Iliev and Jonathan R. Pritchard
The morphology of the 21-cm signal emitted by the neutral hydrogen present in the intergalactic medium (IGM) during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) depends both on the properties of the sources of ionizing radiation and on the underlying physical processes within the IGM. Variation in the morphology of the IGM 21-cm signal due to the different sources of the EoR is expected to have a significant impact on the 21-cm bispectrum, which is one of the crucial observable statistics that can evaluate the non-Gaussianity present in the signal and which can be estimated from radio interferometric observations of the EoR. Here we present the 21-cm bispectrum for different reionization scenarios assuming different simulated models for the sources of reionization. We also demonstrate how well the 21-cm bispectrum can distinguish between different IGM 21-cm signal morphologies, arising due to the differences in the reionization scenarios, which will help us shed light on the nature of the sources of ionizing photons. Our estimated large-scale bispectrum for all unique k-triangle shapes shows a significant difference in the magnitude and sign across different reionization scenarios. Additionally, our focused analysis of bispectrum for a few specific k-triangle shapes (e.g. squeezed-limit, linear, and shapes in the vicinity of the squeezed-limit) shows that the large scale 21-cm bispectrum can distinguish between reionization scenarios that show inside-out, outside-in and a combination of inside-out and outside-in morphologies. These results highlight the potential of using the 21-cm bispectrum for constraining different reionization scenarios.
{"title":"Impact of the Epoch of Reionization sources on the 21-cm bispectrum","authors":"Leon Noble, Mohd Kamran, Suman Majumdar, Chandra Shekhar Murmu, Raghunath Ghara, Garrelt Mellema, Ilian T. Iliev and Jonathan R. Pritchard","doi":"10.1088/1475-7516/2024/10/003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2024/10/003","url":null,"abstract":"The morphology of the 21-cm signal emitted by the neutral hydrogen present in the intergalactic medium (IGM) during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) depends both on the properties of the sources of ionizing radiation and on the underlying physical processes within the IGM. Variation in the morphology of the IGM 21-cm signal due to the different sources of the EoR is expected to have a significant impact on the 21-cm bispectrum, which is one of the crucial observable statistics that can evaluate the non-Gaussianity present in the signal and which can be estimated from radio interferometric observations of the EoR. Here we present the 21-cm bispectrum for different reionization scenarios assuming different simulated models for the sources of reionization. We also demonstrate how well the 21-cm bispectrum can distinguish between different IGM 21-cm signal morphologies, arising due to the differences in the reionization scenarios, which will help us shed light on the nature of the sources of ionizing photons. Our estimated large-scale bispectrum for all unique k-triangle shapes shows a significant difference in the magnitude and sign across different reionization scenarios. Additionally, our focused analysis of bispectrum for a few specific k-triangle shapes (e.g. squeezed-limit, linear, and shapes in the vicinity of the squeezed-limit) shows that the large scale 21-cm bispectrum can distinguish between reionization scenarios that show inside-out, outside-in and a combination of inside-out and outside-in morphologies. These results highlight the potential of using the 21-cm bispectrum for constraining different reionization scenarios.","PeriodicalId":15445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142363042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-09-30DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2024/10/005
Jiajun Chen and Hong-Yi Zhang
Ultralight dark matter simulations predict condensates with short-range correlation, known as solitons or boson stars, at the centers of dark matter halos. This paper investigates the formation and collapse of dark matter solitons influenced by nonminimal gravitational effects, characterized by gradient-dependent self-interactions of dark matter and an additional source in Poisson's equation for gravity. Our simulations suggest that the initial evolution of dark matter resembles that without nonminimal gravitational effects. However, regions with negative potential curvature may develop, and solitons will collapse when their densities reach certain critical values for both positive and negative coupling constants. With strong nonminimal gravitational effects, we verify that linear density perturbations could grow on both large and small scales, potentially enhancing structure formation.
{"title":"Novel structures and collapse of solitons in nonminimally gravitating dark matter halos","authors":"Jiajun Chen and Hong-Yi Zhang","doi":"10.1088/1475-7516/2024/10/005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2024/10/005","url":null,"abstract":"Ultralight dark matter simulations predict condensates with short-range correlation, known as solitons or boson stars, at the centers of dark matter halos. This paper investigates the formation and collapse of dark matter solitons influenced by nonminimal gravitational effects, characterized by gradient-dependent self-interactions of dark matter and an additional source in Poisson's equation for gravity. Our simulations suggest that the initial evolution of dark matter resembles that without nonminimal gravitational effects. However, regions with negative potential curvature may develop, and solitons will collapse when their densities reach certain critical values for both positive and negative coupling constants. With strong nonminimal gravitational effects, we verify that linear density perturbations could grow on both large and small scales, potentially enhancing structure formation.","PeriodicalId":15445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142363044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-09-29DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2024/09/077
Pedro da Silveira Ferreira and Valerio Marra
The cosmological principle posits that the universe is statistically homogeneous and isotropic on large scales, implying all matter shares the same rest frame. This principle suggests that velocity estimates of our motion from various sources should agree with the cosmic microwave background (CMB) dipole's inferred velocity of 370 km/s. Yet, for over two decades, analyses of radio galaxy and quasar catalogs have found velocities at odds with the CMB dipole, with tensions up to 5σ. In a blind analysis of BOSS and eBOSS spectroscopic data from galaxies and quasars across 0.2 < z < 2.2, we applied a novel dipole estimator for a tomographic approach, robustly correcting biases and quantifying uncertainties with realistic mock catalogs. Our findings with eBOSS data (0.6 < z < 2.2), indicating a velocity of 196+92-79-79 km/s, demonstrate a 2σ agreement with the CMB dipole when considering the full 3D vector distribution and a 3-to-6σ tension with previous number count studies. This result supports the cosmological principle, emphasizing the consistency of our motion with the CMB across vast cosmic distances. On the other hand, the BOSS data revealed potential unmodeled systematics; the estimator could not be minimized using the LOWZ set (0.2 < z < 0.4), and the CMASS set (0.4 < z < 0.6) presented results that pointed towards the southern hemisphere, conflicting with the CMB dipole. Addressing the disparities with earlier number count analyses and understanding possible systematics in spectroscopic measurements will be essential to further validate the cosmological principle.
宇宙学原理认为,宇宙在大尺度上是统计均匀和各向同性的,这意味着所有物质共享同一个静止框架。根据这一原理,各种来源对我们运动速度的估计应该与宇宙微波背景(CMB)偶极子推断的 370 千米/秒的速度一致。然而,二十多年来,对射电星系和类星体目录的分析发现,我们的运动速度与 CMB 偶极子的速度不一致,张力高达 5σ。在对来自0.2 < z < 2.2的星系和类星体的BOSS和eBOSS光谱数据的盲分析中,我们应用了一种新的层析方法偶极子估计器,利用现实的模拟星表稳健地校正了偏差并量化了不确定性。我们对 eBOSS 数据(0.6 < z < 2.2)的研究结果表明速度为 196+92-79-79 km/s,当考虑到完整的三维矢量分布时,与 CMB 偶极子的吻合度为 2σ,与之前的数量计数研究的吻合度为 3-6σ。这一结果支持宇宙学原理,强调了我们的运动在广阔的宇宙距离上与 CMB 的一致性。另一方面,BOSS数据揭示了潜在的未建模系统性;使用LOWZ集(0.2 < z < 0.4)无法最小化估计值,而CMASS集(0.4 < z < 0.6)的结果指向南半球,与CMB偶极相冲突。要进一步验证宇宙学原理,就必须解决与早期计数分析之间的差异,并了解光谱测量中可能存在的系统性。
{"title":"Tomographic redshift dipole: testing the cosmological principle","authors":"Pedro da Silveira Ferreira and Valerio Marra","doi":"10.1088/1475-7516/2024/09/077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2024/09/077","url":null,"abstract":"The cosmological principle posits that the universe is statistically homogeneous and isotropic on large scales, implying all matter shares the same rest frame. This principle suggests that velocity estimates of our motion from various sources should agree with the cosmic microwave background (CMB) dipole's inferred velocity of 370 km/s. Yet, for over two decades, analyses of radio galaxy and quasar catalogs have found velocities at odds with the CMB dipole, with tensions up to 5σ. In a blind analysis of BOSS and eBOSS spectroscopic data from galaxies and quasars across 0.2 < z < 2.2, we applied a novel dipole estimator for a tomographic approach, robustly correcting biases and quantifying uncertainties with realistic mock catalogs. Our findings with eBOSS data (0.6 < z < 2.2), indicating a velocity of 196+92-79-79 km/s, demonstrate a 2σ agreement with the CMB dipole when considering the full 3D vector distribution and a 3-to-6σ tension with previous number count studies. This result supports the cosmological principle, emphasizing the consistency of our motion with the CMB across vast cosmic distances. On the other hand, the BOSS data revealed potential unmodeled systematics; the estimator could not be minimized using the LOWZ set (0.2 < z < 0.4), and the CMASS set (0.4 < z < 0.6) presented results that pointed towards the southern hemisphere, conflicting with the CMB dipole. Addressing the disparities with earlier number count analyses and understanding possible systematics in spectroscopic measurements will be essential to further validate the cosmological principle.","PeriodicalId":15445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142360095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-09-26DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2024/09/075
Antonio Ambrosone
The IceCube Collaboration has recently reported compelling evidence of high-energy neutrino emission from NGC 1068, and also mild excesses for NGC 4151 and CGCG420-015, local Seyfert galaxies. This has increased the interest along neutrino emission from hot-corona surrounding the super massive black holes of Seyfert Galaxies. In this paper, we revisit phenomenological constraints on the neutrino emission from hot-coronae of Seyfert galaxies, using an assumption of sub-equipartition between cosmic-rays and magnetic energy densities. We show that not only these sources are consistent with such an assumption but also that the data point towards low values for the ratio between thermal and magnetic pressure, the so called beta plasma parameters inside Seyfert galaxies. We exploit this finding to constrain the Seyfert diffuse neutrino flux and we obtain that, in order not to overproduce neutrinos, not all the sources can be efficient neutrino emitters. In our approach (along with previous findings), Seyfert galaxies provide a negligible contribution to the diffuse neutrino spectrum above ∼ 100 TeV, allowing space for other astrophysical sources. However, future data from high-energy neutrino telescopes will be crucial to shed more light onto the contribution of this source class to the cosmic neutrino background.
冰立方合作组织最近报告了来自 NGC 1068 的高能中微子发射的有力证据,以及 NGC 4151 和 CGCG420-015 这两个本地赛弗星系的轻微过量。这增加了人们对塞弗星系超大质量黑洞周围热日冕中微子发射的兴趣。在本文中,我们利用宇宙射线和磁能密度之间的次等分假设,重新审视了塞弗特星系热冕中微子发射的现象学约束。我们的研究表明,不仅这些来源符合这一假设,而且数据还表明热压和磁压的比值很低,也就是塞弗星系内部所谓的β等离子体参数。我们利用这一发现来约束塞弗特漫射中微子通量,结果发现,为了避免产生过多的中微子,并非所有的中微子源都能成为有效的中微子发射器。根据我们的方法(以及之前的发现),赛弗星系对100 TeV以上的漫射中微子谱的贡献可以忽略不计,这就为其他天体物理源留出了空间。然而,未来来自高能中微子望远镜的数据对于揭示该类源对宇宙中微子背景的贡献至关重要。
{"title":"Berezinsky hidden sources: an emergent tension in the high-energy neutrino sky?","authors":"Antonio Ambrosone","doi":"10.1088/1475-7516/2024/09/075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2024/09/075","url":null,"abstract":"The IceCube Collaboration has recently reported compelling evidence of high-energy neutrino emission from NGC 1068, and also mild excesses for NGC 4151 and CGCG420-015, local Seyfert galaxies. This has increased the interest along neutrino emission from hot-corona surrounding the super massive black holes of Seyfert Galaxies. In this paper, we revisit phenomenological constraints on the neutrino emission from hot-coronae of Seyfert galaxies, using an assumption of sub-equipartition between cosmic-rays and magnetic energy densities. We show that not only these sources are consistent with such an assumption but also that the data point towards low values for the ratio between thermal and magnetic pressure, the so called beta plasma parameters inside Seyfert galaxies. We exploit this finding to constrain the Seyfert diffuse neutrino flux and we obtain that, in order not to overproduce neutrinos, not all the sources can be efficient neutrino emitters. In our approach (along with previous findings), Seyfert galaxies provide a negligible contribution to the diffuse neutrino spectrum above ∼ 100 TeV, allowing space for other astrophysical sources. However, future data from high-energy neutrino telescopes will be crucial to shed more light onto the contribution of this source class to the cosmic neutrino background.","PeriodicalId":15445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142325438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dynamical dark energy has gained renewed interest due to recent theoretical and observational developments. In the present paper, we focus on a string-motivated dark energy set-up, and perform a detailed cosmological analysis of exponential quintessence with potential V = V0 eλϕ-, allowing for non-zero spatial curvature. We first gain some physical intuition into the full evolution of such a scenario by analysing the corresponding dynamical system. Then, we test the model using a combination of Planck CMB data, DESI BAO data, as well as recent supernovae datasets. For the model parameter λ, we obtain a preference for nonzero values: λ = 0.48+0.28-0.21, 0.68+0.31-0.20, 0.77+0.18-0.15 at 68% C.L. when combining CMB+DESI with Pantheon+, Union3 and DES-Y5 supernovae datasets respectively. We find no significant hint for spatial curvature. We discuss the implications of current cosmological results for the exponential quintessence model, and more generally for dark energy in string theory.
由于最近的理论和观测发展,动态暗能量再次引起了人们的兴趣。在本文中,我们将重点放在弦动机暗能量的设置上,并对具有势 V = V0 eλj- 的指数五能进行了详细的宇宙学分析,同时允许非零空间曲率。我们首先通过分析相应的动力系统,对这种情况的全面演化获得一些物理直觉。然后,我们结合普朗克 CMB 数据、DESI BAO 数据以及最近的超新星数据集对该模型进行检验。对于模型参数λ,我们得到了非零值的偏好:当结合CMB+DESI与Pantheon+、Union3和DES-Y5超新星数据集时,λ = 0.48+0.28-0.21、0.68+0.31-0.20、0.77+0.18-0.15(68% C.L.)。我们没有发现空间曲率的重要提示。我们讨论了当前的宇宙学结果对指数五重模型的影响,以及更普遍的对弦理论中暗能量的影响。
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Pub Date : 2024-09-26DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2024/09/070
Roy Maartens, Jessica Santiago, Chris Clarkson, Basheer Kalbouneh and Christian Marinoni
The disagreement between low- and high-redshift measurements of the Hubble parameter is emerging as a serious challenge to the standard model of cosmology. We develop a covariant cosmographic analysis of the Hubble parameter in a general spacetime, which is fully model-independent and can thus be used as part of a robust assessment of the tension. Here our focus is not on the tension but on understanding the relation between the physical expansion rate and its measurement by observers — which is critical for model-independent measurements and tests. We define the physical Hubble parameter and its multipoles in a general spacetime and derive for the first time the covariant boost transformation of the multipoles measured by a heliocentric observer. The analysis is extended to the covariant deceleration parameter. Current cosmographic measurements of the expansion anisotropy contain discrepancies and disagreements, some of which may arise because the correct transformations for a moving observer are not applied. A heliocentric observer will detect a dipole, generated not only by a Doppler effect, but also by an aberration effect due to shear. In principle, the observer can measure both the intrinsic shear anisotropy and the velocity of the observer relative to the matter — without any knowledge of peculiar velocities, which are gauge dependent and do not arise in a covariant approach. The practical implementation of these results is investigated in a follow-up paper. We further show that the standard cosmographic relation between the Hubble parameter, the redshift and the luminosity distance (or magnitude) is not invariant under boosts and holds only in the matter frame. A moving observer who applies the standard cosmographic relation should correct the luminosity distance by a redshift factor — otherwise an incorrect dipole and a spurious octupole are predicted.
{"title":"Covariant cosmography: the observer-dependence of the Hubble parameter","authors":"Roy Maartens, Jessica Santiago, Chris Clarkson, Basheer Kalbouneh and Christian Marinoni","doi":"10.1088/1475-7516/2024/09/070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2024/09/070","url":null,"abstract":"The disagreement between low- and high-redshift measurements of the Hubble parameter is emerging as a serious challenge to the standard model of cosmology. We develop a covariant cosmographic analysis of the Hubble parameter in a general spacetime, which is fully model-independent and can thus be used as part of a robust assessment of the tension. Here our focus is not on the tension but on understanding the relation between the physical expansion rate and its measurement by observers — which is critical for model-independent measurements and tests. We define the physical Hubble parameter and its multipoles in a general spacetime and derive for the first time the covariant boost transformation of the multipoles measured by a heliocentric observer. The analysis is extended to the covariant deceleration parameter. Current cosmographic measurements of the expansion anisotropy contain discrepancies and disagreements, some of which may arise because the correct transformations for a moving observer are not applied. A heliocentric observer will detect a dipole, generated not only by a Doppler effect, but also by an aberration effect due to shear. In principle, the observer can measure both the intrinsic shear anisotropy and the velocity of the observer relative to the matter — without any knowledge of peculiar velocities, which are gauge dependent and do not arise in a covariant approach. The practical implementation of these results is investigated in a follow-up paper. We further show that the standard cosmographic relation between the Hubble parameter, the redshift and the luminosity distance (or magnitude) is not invariant under boosts and holds only in the matter frame. A moving observer who applies the standard cosmographic relation should correct the luminosity distance by a redshift factor — otherwise an incorrect dipole and a spurious octupole are predicted.","PeriodicalId":15445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142325434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}