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The NANOGrav Collaboration has recently published a strong evidence for a stochastic common-spectrum process that may be interpreted as a stochastic gravitational wave background. We show that such a signal can be explained by second-order…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 V. De Luca , G. Franciolini , A. Riotto

The NANOGrav collaboration for the pulsar timing array (PTA) observation recently announced evidence of an isotropic stochastic process, which may be the first detection of the stochastic gravitational-wave (GW) background. We discuss the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-18 Kazunori Kohri , Takahiro Terada

We give an explanation for the signal detected by NANOGrav as the stochastic gravitational wave background from binary mergers of primordial "Stupendously Large Black Holes" (SLABs) of mass $M\sim(10^{11}-10^{12})M_{\odot}$, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 Vicente Atal , Albert Sanglas , Nikolaos Triantafyllou

Assuming that the common-spectrum process in the NANOGrav 12.5-year dataset has an origin of scalar-induced gravitational waves, we study the enhancement of primordial curvature perturbations and the mass function of primordial black holes,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-04 Zhi-Chao Zhao , Sai Wang

We investigate a new mechanism to create large curvature perturbations on small scales due to parameter resonance in a single-field inflationary model with a small periodic structure upon the potential. After reentering the horizon, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 Rong-Gen Cai , Zong-Kuan Guo , Jing Liu , Lang Liu , Xing-Yu Yang

Primordial black holes, if considered to constitute a significant fraction of cold dark matter, trace the inhomogeneous large-scale structure of the Universe. Consequently, the stochastic gravitational-wave background, originating from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-22 Sai Wang , Valeri Vardanyan , Kazunori Kohri

We show that the NANOGrav signal can come from the Higgs field with a noncanonical kinetic term in terms of the scalar induced gravitational waves. The scalar induced gravitational waves generated in our model are also detectable by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-03 Zhu Yi , Zong-Hong Zhu

An observable stochastic background of gravitational waves is generated whenever primordial black holes are created in the early universe thanks to a small-scale enhancement of the curvature perturbation. We calculate the anisotropies and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-10 N. Bartolo , D. Bertacca , V. De Luca , G. Franciolini , S. Matarrese , M. Peloso , A. Ricciardone , A. Riotto , G. Tasinato

Recently, the NANOGrav collaboration has reported evidence for a common-spectrum stochastic process, which might be interpreted as the first ever detection of stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background. We discuss the possibility of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-30 Sukannya Bhattacharya , Subhendra Mohanty , Priyank Parashari

The data recently released by the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) provides compelling evidence supporting the existence of a stochastic signal that aligns with a gravitational-wave background. We show…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-28 Zhu Yi , Zhi-Qiang You , You Wu , Zu-Cheng Chen , Lang Liu

Recently, the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) claimed the detection of a stochastic common-spectrum process of the pulsar timing array (PTA) time residuals from their 12.5 year data, which might be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-15 Guillem Domènech , Shi Pi

The NANOGrav Collaboration recently reported a strong evidence for a stochastic common-spectrum process in the pulsar-timing data. We evaluate the evidence of interpreting this process as mergers of super massive black hole binaries and/or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-21 Ligong Bian , Rong-Gen Cai , Jing Liu , Xing-Yu Yang , Ruiyu Zhou

In this article we investigate the cumulative stochastic gravitational wave spectra as a tool to gain insight on the creation mechanism of primordial black holes. We consider gravitational waves from the production mechanism of primordial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-14 Indra Kumar Banerjee , Ujjal Kumar Dey

The collapse of large-amplitude primordial curvature perturbations into planetary-mass primordial black holes generates a scalar-induced gravitational wave background in the $\mu $Hz frequency range that may be detectable by future Lunar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-16 D. Blas , J. W. Foster , Y. Gouttenoire , A. J. Iovino , I. Musco , S. Trifinopoulos , M. Vanvlasselaer

We demonstrate that the leptogenesis mechanisms, which are associated with B-L symmetry breaking mechanism has notable effects on the production of gravitational waves. These gravitational waves align well with the recent observations of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-21 K. El Bourakadi , H. Chakir , M. Yu. Khlopov

The recent report of NANOGrav is gathering attention since its signal can be explained by the stochastic gravitational waves (GWs) with $\Omega_{\rm GW}\sim 10^{-9}$ at $f\sim 10^{-8}$Hz. The PBH formation scenario is one of the candidates…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-19 Masahiro Kawasaki , Hiromasa Nakatsuka

In this article we have used stochastic gravitational wave background as a unique probe to gain insight regarding the creation mechanism of primordial black holes. We have considered the cumulative gravitational wave background which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-19 Indra Kumar Banerjee , Ujjal Kumar Dey

In this paper, we explain the recently reported a nHz-band gravitational-wave background from NANOGrav 15-year through the merger of binary super-massive black holes with masses of $10^9 M_{\odot}$ formed by the growth of primordial black…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-11 Mikage U. Kobayashi , Kazunori Kohri

The evidence of the nano-Hertz stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background is reported by multiple pulsar timing array collaborations. While a prominent candidate of the origin is astrophysical from supermassive black hole binaries,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-06 Katsuya T. Abe , Yuichiro Tada

The measurement of gravitational waves produced by binary black-hole mergers at the Advanced LIGO has encouraged extensive studies on the stochastic gravitational wave background. Recent studies have focused on gravitational wave sources…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-18 Wenfeng Cui , Fei Huang , Jing Shu , Yue Zhao
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