Primordial black holes and their gravitational-wave signatures

E Bagui, S Clesse, V De Luca, JM Ezquiaga… - Living Reviews in …, 2025 - Springer
In the recent years, primordial black holes (PBHs) have emerged as one of the most
interesting and hotly debated topics in cosmology. Among other possibilities, PBHs could …

Near-field cosmology with extremely metal-poor stars

A Frebel, JE Norris - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The oldest, most metal-poor stars in the Galactic halo and satellite dwarf galaxies present an
opportunity to explore the chemical and physical conditions of the earliest star-forming …

Science with the Einstein Telescope: a comparison of different designs

M Branchesi, M Maggiore, D Alonso… - … of Cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Einstein Telescope (ET), the European project for a third-generation
gravitational-wave detector, has a reference configuration based on a triangular shape …

Primordial black holes

A Escrivà, F Kühnel, Y Tada - Black Holes in the Era of Gravitational-Wave …, 2024 - Elsevier
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Searching for a subpopulation of primordial black holes in LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave data

G Franciolini, V Baibhav, V De Luca, KKY Ng… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
With several dozen binary black hole events detected by LIGO-Virgo to date and many more
expected in the next few years, gravitational-wave astronomy is shifting from individual …

Bayesian evidence for both astrophysical and primordial black holes: map** the GWTC-2 catalog to third-generation detectors

V De Luca, G Franciolini, P Pani… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We perform a hierarchical Bayesian analysis of the GWTC-2 catalog to investigate the mixed
scenario in which the merger events are explained by black holes of both astrophysical and …

Cosmology at low frequencies: The 21 cm transition and the high-redshift Universe

SR Furlanetto, SP Oh, FH Briggs - Physics reports, 2006 - Elsevier
Observations of the high-redshift Universe with the 21cm hyperfine line of neutral hydrogen
promise to open an entirely new window onto the early phases of cosmic structure formation …

Monoenergetic beams of relativistic electrons from intense laser–plasma interactions

SPD Mangles, CD Murphy, Z Najmudin, AGR Thomas… - Nature, 2004 - nature.com
High-power lasers that fit into a university-scale laboratory can now reach focused
intensities of more than 1019 W cm-2 at high repetition rates. Such lasers are capable of …

The discovery and analysis of very metal-poor stars in the galaxy

TC Beers, N Christlieb - Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys., 2005 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract We discuss the importance of very metal-poor stars to develop an understanding
of the nature of the first stars that formed in the Universe and the nucleosynthesis events …

The first stars

V Bromm, RB Larson - Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys., 2004 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract We review recent theoretical results on the formation of the first stars in the
universe, and emphasize related open questions. In particular, we discuss the initial …