Scalar induced gravitational waves review

G Domènech - Universe, 2021 - mdpi.com
We provide a review on the state-of-the-art of gravitational waves induced by primordial
fluctuations, so-called induced gravitational waves. We present the intuitive physics behind …

Explaining pulsar timing array observations with primordial gravitational waves in parity-violating gravity

C Fu, J Liu, XY Yang, WW Yu, Y Zhang - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
The pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations have recently suggested the presence of a
gravitational wave background at nano-Hertz frequencies. In this paper, we explore potential …

Probing the equation of state of the early Universe with pulsar timing arrays

L Liu, ZC Chen, QG Huang - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The recently released data by pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations have amassed
substantial evidence corroborating the existence of a stochastic signal consistent with a …

Scalar induced gravitational waves in light of Pulsar Timing Array data

Z Yi, Q Gao, Y Gong, Y Wang, F Zhang - Science China Physics …, 2023 - Springer
The power-law parametrization for the energy density spectrum of gravitational wave (GW)
background is a useful tool to study its physics and origin. While scalar induced secondary …

Constraints on primordial curvature power spectrum with pulsar timing arrays

ZQ You, Z Yi, Y Wu - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The stochastic signal detected by NANOGrav, PPTA, EPTA, and CPTA can be explained by
the scalar-induced gravitational waves. In order to determine the scalar-induced …

Primordial black holes from Gauss-Bonnet-corrected single field inflation

S Kawai, J Kim - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
Primordial black holes formed in the early Universe via gravitational collapse of over-dense
regions may contribute a significant amount to the present dark matter relic density. Inflation …

Simultaneously probing the sound speed and equation of state of the early Universe with pulsar timing arrays

L Liu, Y Wu, ZC Chen - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently, several major pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations have assembled strong
evidence for the existence of a gravitational-wave background at frequencies around the …

Exploring the NANOGrav signal and planet-mass primordial black holes through Higgs inflation

Z Yi, ZQ You, Y Wu, ZC Chen, L Liu - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The data recently released by the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational
Waves (NANOGrav) provides compelling evidence supporting the existence of a stochastic …

Model-independent reconstruction of the primordial curvature power spectrum from PTA data

Z Yi, ZQ You, Y Wu - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently released data from pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations provide strong
evidence for a stochastic signal consistent with a gravitational-wave background, potentially …

Primordial black holes generated by the non-minimal spectator field

DS Meng, C Yuan, QG Huang - Science China Physics, Mechanics & …, 2023 - Springer
We improve and generalize the non-minimal curvaton model originally proposed in arxiv:
2112.12680 to a model in which a spectator field non-minimally couples to an inflaton field …