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Black holes orbiting the Super Massive Black Hole (SMBH) Sgr A* in the Milky-way galaxy center (GC) generate gravitational waves. The spectrum, due to stars and black holes, is continuous below 40 nHz while individual BHs within about 200…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Alak Ray , Bence Kocsis , Simon Portegies Zwart

Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) observations have recently gathered substantial evidence for the existence of a gravitational wave background in the nHz frequency band. Searching for anisotropies in this signal is key to determining its origin,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-02 Paul Frederik Depta , Valerie Domcke , Gabriele Franciolini , Mauro Pieroni

We investigate the prospects of detecting a stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background from the primordial black hole (PBH) reheating epoch. If PBHs form during a non-standard cosmological phase prior to the radiation-dominated era, they…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-03 Debarun Paul , Md Riajul Haque , Supratik Pal

The primordial black hole (PBH) productions from the inflationary potential with an inflection point usually rely heavily on the fine-tuning of the model parameters. We propose in this work a new kind of the $\alpha$-attractor inflation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-09 Chengjie Fu , Shao-Jiang Wang

The possible existence of primordial black holes (PBHs) is an open question in modern cosmology. Among the probes to test it, gravitational waves (GW) coming from their mergers constitute a powerful tool. In this work, we study how stellar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-22 Sarah Libanore , Michele Liguori , Alvise Raccanelli

Close hyperbolic encounters of black holes (BHs) generate certain Burst With Memory (BWM) events in the frequency windows of the operational, planned, and proposed gravitational wave (GW) observatories. We present detailed explorations of…

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are placing increasingly stringent constraints on the strain amplitude of continuous gravitational waves emitted by supermassive black hole binaries on subparsec scales. In this paper, we incorporate independent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-08 Katelin Schutz , Chung-Pei Ma

We investigate the formation of primordial black hole (PBH) based on numerical relativity simulations and peak theory as well as the corresponding scalar induced gravitational wave (SIGW) signals in the presence of \emph{logarithmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-10 Ryoto Inui , Cristian Joana , Hayato Motohashi , Shi Pi , Yuichiro Tada , Shuichiro Yokoyama

The observational data of primordial black holes and scalar-induced gravitational waves can constrain the primordial curvature perturbation at small scales. We parameterize the primordial curvature perturbation by a broken power law form…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-31 Zhu Yi , Qin Fei

The two recent gravitational-wave events GW190425 and GW190814 from the third observing run of LIGO/Virgo have both a companion which is unexpected if originated from a neutron star or a stellar black hole, with masses $[1.6-2.5]~M_\odot$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-28 Sebastien Clesse , Juan Garcia-Bellido

Pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations in North America, Australia, and Europe, have been exploiting the exquisite timing precision of millisecond pulsars over decades of observations to search for correlated timing deviations induced by…

The International Pulsar Timing Array 2nd data release is the combination of datasets from worldwide collaborations. In this study, we search for continuous waves: gravitational wave signals produced by individual supermassive black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-29 M. Falxa , S. Babak , P. T. Baker , B. Bécsy , A. Chalumeau , S. Chen , Z. Chen , N. J. Cornish , L. Guillemot , J. S. Hazboun , C. M. F. Mingarelli , A. Parthasarathy , A. Petiteau , N. S. Pol , A. Sesana , S. B. Spolaor , S. R. Taylor , G. Theureau , M. Vallisneri , S. J. Vigeland , C. A. Witt , X. Zhu , J. Antoniadis , Z. Arzoumanian , M. Bailes , N. D. R. Bhat , L. Blecha , A. Brazier , P. R. Brook , N. Caballero , A. D. Cameron , J. A. Casey-Clyde , D. Champion , M. Charisi , S. Chatterjee , I. Cognard , J. M. Cordes , F. Crawford , H. T. Cromartie , K. Crowter , S. Dai , M. E. DeCesar , P. B. Demorest , G. Desvignes , T. Dolch , B. Drachler , Y. Feng , E. C. Ferrara , W. Fiore , E. Fonseca , N. Garver-Daniels , J. Glaser , B. Goncharov , D. C. Good , J. Griessmeier , Y. J. Guo , K. Gültekin , G. Hobbs , H. Hu , K. Islo , J. Jang , R. J. Jennings , A. D. Johnson , M. L. Jones , J. Kaczmarek , A. R. Kaiser , D. L. Kaplan , M. Keith , L. Z. Kelley , M. Kerr , J. S. Key , N. Laal , M. T. Lam , W. G. Lamb , T. J. W. Lazio , K. Liu , T. Liu , J. Luo , R. S. Lynch , D. R. Madison , R. Main , R. Manchester , A. McEwen , J. McKee , M. A. McLaughlin , C. Ng , D. J. Nice , S. Ocker , K. D. Olum , S. Osłowski , T. T. Pennucci , B. B. P. Perera , D. Perrodin , N. Porayko , A. Possenti , H. Quelquejay-Leclere , S. M. Ransom , P. S. Ray , D. J. Reardon , C. J. Russell , A. Samajdar , J. Sarkissian , L. Schult , G. Shaifullah , R. M. Shannon , B. J. Shapiro-Albert , X. Siemens , J. J. Simon , M. Siwek , T. L. Smith , L. Speri , R. Spiewak , I. H. Stairs , B. Stappers , D. R. Stinebring , J. K. Swiggum , C. Tiburzi , J. Turner , A. Vecchio , J. P. W. Verbiest , H. Wahl , S. Q. Wang , J. Wang , J. Wang , Z. Wu , L. Zhang , S. Zhang

Pulsar timing arrays are sensitive to gravitational wave perturbations produced by individual supermassive black hole binaries during their early inspiral phase. Modified gravity theories allow for the emission of gravitational dipole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-03 Logan O'Beirne , Neil J. Cornish , Sarah J. Vigeland , Stephen R. Taylor

Massive black-hole binaries, formed when galaxies merge, are among the primary sources of gravitational waves targeted by ongoing Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) experiments and the upcoming space-based LISA interferometer. However, their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-26 Irina Dvorkin , Enrico Barausse

Pulsar timing arrays gathered evidence of the presence of a gravitational wave background around nHz frequencies. If the gravitational wave background was induced by large and Gaussian primordial fluctuations, they would then produce too…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-18 Shyam Balaji , Guillem Domènech , Gabriele Franciolini

Gravitational waves are a radically new way to peer into the darkest depths of the cosmos. Pulsars can be used to make direct detections of gravitational waves through precision timing. When a gravitational wave passes between a pulsar and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-28 Stephen R. Taylor

Here, we explore the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) within a scalar field inflationary model coupled to the Gauss-Bonnet (GB) term, incorporating the low-scale spontaneously broken supersymmetric (SB SUSY) potential. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-07 A. Ashrafzadeh , M. Solbi , S. Heydari , K. Karami

We calculate the gravitational waves (GWs) produced by primordial black holes (PBHs) in the presence of the inflaton condensate in the early Universe. Combining the GW production from the evaporation process, the gravitational scattering of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-08 Mathieu Gross , Essodjolo Kpatcha , Yann Mambrini , Maria Olalla Olea-Romacho , Rishav Roshan

Recently, the NANOGrav, PPTA, EPTA, and CPTA collaborations independently reported their evidence of the Stochastic Gravitational Waves Background (SGWB). While the inferred gravitational-wave background amplitude and spectrum are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-21 Yi-Fu Cai , Xin-Chen He , Xiao-Han Ma , Sheng-Feng Yan , Guan-Wen Yuan

Recent observations have granted to us two unique insights into the early universe: the presence of a low-frequency stochastic gravitational wave background detected by the NANOGrav and Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) experiments and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-03 Yann Gouttenoire , Sokratis Trifinopoulos , Georgios Valogiannis , Miguel Vanvlasselaer