Cosmology and the Early Universe

B.S. Sathyaprakash , Enis Belgacem , Daniele Bertacca , Chiara Caprini (1) , Giulia Cusin , Yves Dirian , Xilong Fan , Daniel Figueroa , Stefano Foffa , Evan Hall , Jan Harms , Michele Maggiore , Vuk Mandic , Andrew Matas , Tania Regimbau (2) , Mairi Sakellariadou , Nicola Tamanini , Eric Thrane

1 UPD7 - Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7
2 UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes

This Astro-2020 White Paper deals with what we might learn from future gravitational wave observations about the early universe phase transitions and their energy scales, primordial black holes, Hubble parameter, dark matter and dark energy, modified theories of gravity and extra dimensions.

Mots clés: black hole: primordial; gravitational radiation; critical phenomena; higher-dimensional; cosmological model: parameter space; Hubble constant; gravitation; dark matter; dark energy

Domaines: Astrophysique [astro-ph]; Relativité Générale et Cosmologie Quantique [gr-qc]; Physique des Hautes Energies - Théorie [hep-th]

B.S. Sathyaprakash, Enis Belgacem, Daniele Bertacca, Chiara Caprini, Giulia Cusin, et al.. Cosmology and the Early Universe. 2019. ⟨hal-02097257⟩