Axion cosmology

DJE Marsh - Physics Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
Axions comprise a broad class of particles that can play a major role in explaining the
unknown aspects of cosmology. They are also well-motivated within high energy physics …

Stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds

N Christensen - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
A stochastic background of gravitational waves could be created by the superposition of a
large number of independent sources. The physical processes occurring at the earliest …

The James Webb space telescope mission

JP Gardner, JC Mather, R Abbott, JS Abell… - Publications of the …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We summarize the history, concept, scientific program, and technical performance of the
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST, Webb; Gardner et al. 2006). This paper points to and …

Primordial gravitational waves in the nano-Hertz regime and PTA data—towards solving the GW inverse problem

E Madge, E Morgante, C Puchades-Ibáñez… - Journal of High Energy …, 2023 - Springer
A bstract In recent years, several pulsar timing array collaborations have reported first hints
for a stochastic gravitational wave background at nano-Hertz frequencies. Here we …

A repeating fast radio burst source in a globular cluster

F Kirsten, B Marcote, K Nimmo, JWT Hessels… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are flashes of unknown physical origin. The majority of FRBs have
been seen only once, although some are known to generate multiple flashes,. Many models …

Primordial Black Holes as a dark matter candidate

AM Green, BJ Kavanagh - Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The detection of gravitational waves from mergers of tens of Solar mass black hole binaries
has led to a surge in interest in primordial black holes (PBHs) as a dark matter candidate …

Steepest growth of the power spectrum and primordial black holes

CT Byrnes, PS Cole, SP Patil - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We derive analytic bounds on the shape of the primordial power spectrum in the context of
single-field inflation. In particular, the steepest possible growth has a spectral index of ns …

Search for scalar induced gravitational waves in the international pulsar timing array data release 2 and NANOgrav 12.5 years datasets

V Dandoy, V Domcke, F Rompineve - SciPost Physics Core, 2023 - scipost.org
We perform a Bayesian search in the latest Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) datasets for a
stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background sourced by curvature perturbations at scales …

Nine-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) observations: final maps and results

CL Bennett, D Larson, JL Weiland… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the final nine-year maps and basic results from the Wilkinson Microwave
Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) mission. The full nine-year analysis of the time-ordered data …

[BOK][B] Modern classical physics: optics, fluids, plasmas, elasticity, relativity, and statistical physics

KS Thorne, RD Blandford - 2017 - books.google.com
A groundbreaking text and reference book on twenty-first-century classical physics and its
applications This first-year graduate-level text and reference book covers the fundamental …