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The recent stochastic signal observed jointly by NANOGrav, PPTA, EPTA, and CPTA can be accounted for by scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs). The source of the SIGWs is from the primordial curvature perturbations, and the main…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-11 Qin Fei

Recently, several regional pulsar timing array collaborations, including CPTA, EPTA, PPTA, and NANOGrav, have individually reported compelling evidence for a stochastic signal at nanohertz frequencies. This signal originates potentially…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-13 Zu-Cheng Chen , Jun Li , Lang Liu , Zhu Yi

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 recently released data by pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations present strong evidence for a stochastic signal consistent with a gravitational-wave background. Assuming this signal originates from scalar-induced gravitational waves,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-27 Lang Liu , Zu-Cheng Chen , Qing-Guo Huang

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

In this study, we investigate the scenario in which the stochastic signal arises from primordial gravitational waves. Within this framework, we consider two distinct possibilities: one in which the pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) signal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 Jun Li , Guanghai Guo , Pengfei Yan

We perform a Bayesian search in the latest Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) datasets for a stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background sourced by curvature perturbations at scales $10^5~\text{Mpc}^{-1}\lesssim k\lesssim 10^8~\text{Mpc}^{-1}$.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-06 Virgile Dandoy , Valerie Domcke , Fabrizio Rompineve

The stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) provides a unique opportunity to probe the early Universe, potentially encoding information about the primordial curvature power spectrum and the energy scale of reheating. Recent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-23 Lele Fan , Jie Zheng , Fengge Zhang , Zhi-Qiang You

Recently released data from pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations provide strong evidence for a stochastic signal consistent with a gravitational-wave background, potentially originating from scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs).…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-31 Zhu Yi , Zhi-Qiang You , You Wu

The scalar induced gravitational waves are produced from primordial curvature perturbations in the second order of perturbations. We constrain the fractional energy density of scalar induced gravitational waves from gravitational waves…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-07 Jun Li , Guang-Hai Guo

The recent detection of a stochastic gravitational wave background by pulsar timing arrays has opened a new window in understanding supermassive black hole binaries and in probing the universe at the early time. Recently, pulsar timing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-24 Fengting Xie , Zhi-Chao Zhao , Qing-Hua Zhu , Xin Li

We study the stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background induced by the primordial scalar perturbation with the spectrum having a lognormal peak of width $\Delta$ at $k=k_*$. We derive an analytical formula for the GW spectrum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-30 Shi Pi , Misao Sasaki

In recent years, several pulsar timing array collaborations have reported first hints for a stochastic gravitational wave background at nano-Hertz frequencies. Here we elaborate on the possibility that this signal comes from new physics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-02 Eric Madge , Enrico Morgante , Cristina Puchades-Ibáñez , Nicklas Ramberg , Wolfram Ratzinger , Sebastian Schenk , Pedro Schwaller

The detection of a stochastic gravitational-wave signal from the superposition of many inspiraling supermassive black holes with pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) is likely to occur within the next decade. With this detection will come the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-24 Laura Sampson , Neil J. Cornish , Sean T. McWilliams

The evidence of the stochastic gravitational-wave background around the nano-hertz frequency range was recently found by worldwide pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations. One of the cosmological explanations is the gravitational waves…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-27 Keisuke Harigaya , Keisuke Inomata , Takahiro Terada

The detection of a stochastic signal by recent pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations, including NANOGrav, PPTA, EPTA+InPTA, CPTA and MPTA, has opened a new window to explore gravitational waves (GWs) at nanohertz frequencies. Motivated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-17 Zhi-Zhang Peng , You Wu , Lang Liu

Pulsar timing arrays have reported a compelling evidence of a nanohertz stochastic gravitational wave background. However, the origin of the signal remains undetermined, largely because its spectrum is bluer for an astrophysical source and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-05 Reginald Christian Bernardo , Kin-Wang Ng

The stochastic signal detected by pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) has raised great interest in understanding its physical origin. Assuming the signal is a cosmological gravitational-wave background produced by overly large primordial curvature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-31 Jia-Heng Jin , Zu-Cheng Chen , Zhu Yi , Zhi-Qiang You , Lang Liu , You Wu

Understanding the nature of primordial fluctuations is pivotal to unraveling the Universe's early evolution. While these fluctuations are observed to be nearly scale-invariant, quasi-adiabatic, and Gaussian on large scales, their…

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

Primordial scalar curvature perturbations ($\zeta$), typically probed on large cosmological scales via CMB and LSS observations, can be significantly enhanced on smaller scales by various early Universe mechanisms, for instance, non-minimal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-30 Mauro Pieroni
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