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The announcement in the summer of 2023 about the discovery of evidence for a gravitational wave background (GWB) using pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) has ignited both the PTA and the larger scientific community's interest in the experiment and…

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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

We explore the potential of Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) such as NANOGrav, EPTA, and PPTA to detect the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB) in theories of massive gravity. In General Relativity, the function describing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-27 Qiuyue Liang , Mark Trodden

The ability to test and constrain theories of cosmic inflation will advance substantially over the next decade. Key data sources include cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurements and observations of the distribution of matter at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-13 Benedict Bahr-Kalus , David Parkinson , Richard Easther

The stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) is expected to arise from the superposition of many independent and unresolved gravitational-wave signals of either cosmological or astrophysical origin. The spectral content of the SGWB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-27 Vuk Mandic , Eric Thrane , Stefanos Giampanis , Tania Regimbau

Motivated by recent progress in our understanding of the $B$-mode polarization of cosmic microwave background (CMB), which provides important information about the inflationary gravitational waves (IGWs), we study the possibility to acquire…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Ryusuke Jinno , Takeo Moroi , Tomo Takahashi

Recent reports of stochastic gravitational wave background from four independent pulsar-timing-array collaborations have renewed the interest in the cosmological gravitational wave background (CGWB), which is expected to open a new window…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-09 Rong-Gen Cai , Shao-Jiang Wang , Zi-Yan Yuwen , Xiang-Xi Zeng

We constrain the primordial gravitational waves from cosmic microwave background (CMB) and stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) observations. SGWB provides the latest way to explore the early universe and the cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 Jun Li , Guang-Hai Guo

Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) searches for nHz gravitational-wave backgrounds (GWBs) typically model time-correlated noise by assuming a diagonal covariance in Fourier space, neglecting inter-frequency correlations introduced by the finite…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 Marco Crisostomi , Rutger van Haasteren , Patrick M. Meyers , Michele Vallisneri

While pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations have reported evidence for a stochastic gravitational wave background (GWB), the detection of continuous gravitational waves (GWs) from a confirmed supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) would…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-13 Li-Wen Tian , Yan-Chen Bi , Yu-Mei Wu , Qing-Guo Huang

It is well-known that the first-order phase transition (PT) will yield a stochastic gravitational waves (GWs) background with a logo-like spectrum. However, we show that when such a PT happened during the primordial inflation, the GWs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-24 Yu-Tong Wang , Yong Cai , Yun-Song Piao

We study the non-Gaussianity and secondary Gravitational Waves (GWs) in the process of the Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) production from inflation. In our work, we focus on the $\alpha$-attractor inflation model in which a tiny bump in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-31 Kazem Rezazadeh , Zeinab Teimoori , Saeid Karimi , Kayoomars Karami

Gravitational wave (GW) radiations from numerous cosmic stellar-compact-binaries form a stochastic GW background (GWB), which is expected to be detected by ground and space GW detectors in future. Theoretical predictions of this GWB were…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-25 Yuetong Zhao , Youjun Lu

We investigate the constraints that can be placed on the cosmic string tension by using the current Pulsar Timing Array limits on the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB). We have developed a code to compute the spectrum of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 S. A. Sanidas , R. A. Battye , B. W. Stappers

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are currently the only experiments directly sensitive to gravitational waves with decade-long periods. Within the next five to ten years, PTAs are expected to detect the stochastic gravitational-wave background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-04 Yacine Ali-Haïmoud , Tristan L. Smith , Chiara M. F. Mingarelli

Large curvature perturbations can source an observable amount of stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB). We consider several scenarios where small-scale curvature perturbations are naturally enhanced due to the presence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-24 Soubhik Kumar , Hanwen Tai , Lian-Tao Wang

We discuss the possibility of explaining the recent NANOGrav results by inflationary gravitational waves (IGWs) with a blue-tilted primordial spectrum. Although such IGWs can account for the NANOGrav signal without contradicting the upper…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Sachiko Kuroyanagi , Tomo Takahashi , Shuichiro Yokoyama

Stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds (SGWBs) receive increasing attention and provide a new possibility to directly probe the early Universe. In the preheating process at the end of inflation, parametric resonance can generate large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-11 Rong-Gen Cai , Zong-Kuan Guo , Pei-Ze Ding , Cheng-Jie Fu , Jing Liu

Pulsar timing data used to provide upper limits on a possible stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB). However, the NANOGrav Collaboration has recently reported strong evidence for a stochastic common-spectrum process, which we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 John Ellis , Marek Lewicki