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Constraints on primordial curvature power spectrum with pulsar timing arrays

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2025-03-31 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

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 gravitational waves model that best fits the stochastic signal, we employ both single- and double-peak parameterizations for the power spectrum of the primordial curvature perturbations, where the single-peak scenarios include the δ\delta-function, box, lognormal, and broken power law model, and the double-peak scenario is described by the double lognormal form. Using Bayesian inference, we find that there is no significant evidence for or against the single-peak scenario over the double-peak model, with log\log (Bayes factors) among these models lnB<1\ln \mathcal{B} < 1. Therefore, we cannot distinguish the different shapes of the power spectrum of the primordial curvature perturbation with the current sensitivity of pulsar timing arrays.

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@article{arxiv.2307.04419,
  title  = {Constraints on primordial curvature power spectrum with pulsar timing arrays},
  author = {Zhi-Qiang You and Zhu Yi and You Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.04419},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

21 pages, 1 table, 7 figures, version accepted by JCAP