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We consider the production of secondary gravity waves in Galileon inflation with an ultra-slow roll (USR) phase and show that the spectrum of scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) in this case is consistent with the recent NANOGrav…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-23 Sayantan Choudhury , Ahaskar Karde , Sudhakar Panda , M. Sami

We study the production of scalar-induced gravitational waves and primordial black holes in a single-field inflation model with a localized bump or dip feature in the potential. Introducing such a localized feature temporarily decelerates…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-13 Xiang Zhang , Zhao-Huan Yu

In this paper, we propose a novel mechanism in $\mathbb{T}^2$-inflation to enhance the power spectrum large enough to seed primordial black holes (PBHs) formation. To accomplish this, we consider the coupling function between the inflaton…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-21 Seyed Ali Hosseini Mansoori , Fereshteh Felegray , Alireza Talebian , Mohammad Sami

We investigate the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) generated by primordial black holes (PBHs) in the dense cores of dwarf galaxies (DGs), considering both hierarchical binary black hole (BBH) mergers and close hyperbolic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-02 Tadeo D. Gòmez-Aguilar , Encieh Erfani , N. M. Jimènez Cruz

We study the properties of the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) resulting from the mergers of primordial black holes (PBH) that formed from the collapse of sub-horizon regions in the early universe. We adopt a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 Stefano Profumo , Fengwei Yang

Recent pulsar timing array (PTA) experiments have reported strong evidence of the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB). If interpreted as primordial Gravitational Waves (pGWs), the signal favors a strongly blue-tilted spectrum.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-12 Taotao Qiu , Mian Zhu

Upcoming searches for the stochastic background of inflationary gravitational waves (GWs) offer the exciting possibility to probe the evolution of our Universe prior to Big Bang nucleosynthesis. In this spirit, we explore the sensitivity of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-20 Francesco D'Eramo , Kai Schmitz

We investigate the effects of gravitational waves (GWs) from a simulated population of binary super-massive black holes (SMBHs) on pulsar timing array datasets. We construct a distribution describing the binary SMBH population from an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 V. Ravi , J. S. B. Wyithe , G. Hobbs , R. M. Shannon , R. N. Manchester , D. R. B. Yardley , M. J. Keith

Gravity theories that modify General Relativity in the slow-motion regime can introduce nonperturbative corrections to the stochastic gravitational-wave background~(SGWB) from supermassive black-hole binaries in the nano-Hertz band, while…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-08 Enrico Cannizzaro , Gabriele Franciolini , Paolo Pani

The circular polarization of the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) is a key observable for characterising the origin of the signal detected by Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) collaborations. Both the astrophysical and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-10 N. M. Jiménez Cruz , Ameek Malhotra , Gianmassimo Tasinato , Ivonne Zavala

Gravitational wave (GW) astrophysics is entering a multi-band era with upcoming GW detectors, enabling detailed mapping of the stochastic GW background across vast frequencies. We highlight this potential via a new physics scenario: hybrid…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-26 Yunjia Bao , Tore Boybeyi , Vuk Mandic , Lian-Tao Wang

With strong evidence of a common-spectrum stochastic process in the most recent datasets from the NANOGrav Collaboration, the European Pulsar Timing Array (PTA), Parkes PTA, and the International PTA, it is crucial to assess the effects of…

Stochastic gravitational waves can be induced from the primordial curvature perturbations generated during inflation, through scalar-tensor mode coupling at the second order of cosmological perturbation theory. Here we discuss a model of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-07 Richa Arya , Arvind Kumar Mishra

Recent pulsar timing array collaborations have reported evidence of the stochastic gravitational wave background. The gravitational waves induced by primordial curvature perturbations, referred to as scalar-induced gravitational waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-18 Qing-Hua Zhu

Several Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) collaborations have recently found evidence for a gravitational wave background (GWB) permeating our galaxy. The origin of this background is still unknown. Indeed, while the gravitational wave emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-12 Anna-Malin Lemke , Andrea Mitridate , Kyle A. Gersbach

The stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) can be observed in the nanohertz band using a pulsar timing array (PTA). Here a computationally efficient state-space framework is developed for analysing SGWB data, in which the…

Recently the international pulsar timing array collaboration has announced the first strong evidence for an isotropic gravitational wave background (GWB). We propose that rapid small oscillations (wiggles) in the Hubble parameter would…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-23 Gen Ye , Alessandra Silvestri

We demonstrate that the recently announced signal for a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) from pulsar timing array (PTA) observations, if attributed to new physics, is compatible with primordial GW production due to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-19 Caner Unal , Alexandros Papageorgiou , Ippei Obata

We search for a stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) originating from scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) with the sound speed resonance (SSR) effect using data from Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo's first three observing…

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