Thermal Gravitational Waves from Primordial Black Holes

ABSTRACT

Thermal gravitational waves can be generated in various sources such as, in the cores of stars, white dwarfs and neutron stars due to the fermion collisions in the dense degenerate Fermi gas [1-3]. Such high frequency thermal gravitational waves can also be produced during the collisions in a gamma ray burst [3] or during the final stages of the evaporation of primordial black holes [4]. Here we estimate the thermal gravitational waves from primordial black holes and estimate the integrated energy of the gravitational wave emission over the entire volume of the universe and over Hubble time. We also estimate the gravitational wave flux from gamma ray bursts and jets.