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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 black hole merging rates inferred after the gravitational-wave detection by Advanced LIGO/VIRGO and the relatively high mass of the progenitors are consistent with models of dark matter made of massive primordial black holes (PBH). PBH…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-30 Sebastien Clesse , Juan García-Bellido

Primordial Black Holes (PBH) from peaks in the curvature power spectrum could constitute today an important fraction of the Dark Matter in the Universe. At horizon reentry, during the radiation era, order one fluctuations collapse…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-31 Sebastien Clesse , Juan García-Bellido , Stefano Orani

Pulsar timing array (PTA) data releases showed strong evidence for a stochastic gravitational-wave background in the nanohertz band. When the signal is interpreted by a scenario of scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs), we encounter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-30 Qing-Hua Zhu , Zhi-Chao Zhao , Sai Wang , Xin Zhang

We propose that the recent observations reported by the different Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) collaborations (i.e.~IPTA, EPTA, PPTA, and NANOGrav) of a common process over several pulsars could correspond to a stochastic gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-20 Alberto Roper Pol

Arrays of precisely-timed millisecond pulsars are used to search for gravitational waves with periods of months to decades. Gravitational waves affect the path of radio pulses propagating from a pulsar to Earth, causing the arrival times of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-13 Stephen R. Taylor

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 thoroughly study the induced gravitational wave interpretation of the possible gravitational wave background reported by PTA collaborations, considering the unknown equation of state $w$ of the early universe. We perform a Bayesian…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-02 Guillem Domènech , Shi Pi , Ao Wang , Jianing Wang

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

Very recently, several pulsar timing array collaborations, including CPTA, EPTA, and NANOGrav, reported their results from searches for an isotropic stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB), with each finding positive evidence for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-06 Ligong Bian , Shuailiang Ge , Jing Shu , Bo Wang , Xing-Yu Yang , Junchao Zong

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

The possibility that primordial black holes (PBHs) represent all of the dark matter (DM) in the Universe and explain the coalescences of binary black holes detected by LIGO/Virgo has attracted a lot of attention. PBHs are generated by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-28 Chen Yuan , Zu-Cheng Chen , Qing-Guo Huang

Massive black hole binary systems, with masses in the range ~10^4-10^10 \msun, are among the primary sources of gravitational waves in the frequency window ~10^-9 Hz - 0.1 Hz. Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) and the Laser Interferometer Space…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alberto Sesana , Alberto Vecchio , Carlo Nicola Colacino

The gravitational potential of a gas of initially randomly distributed primordial black holes (PBH) can induce a stochastic gravitational-wave (GW) background through second-order gravitational effects. This GW background can be abundantly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Theodoros Papanikolaou , Charalampos Tzerefos , Spyros Basilakos , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) have reported evidence for a stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background at nHz frequencies, possibly originating in the early Universe. We show that the spectral shape of the low-frequency (causality) tail of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-25 Gabriele Franciolini , Davide Racco , Fabrizio Rompineve

We investigate the stochastic gravitational wave background produced by primordial black hole binaries during their early inspiral stage while accreting high-density radiation surrounding them in the early universe. We first show that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-20 Arnab Sarkar , K. Rajesh Nayak , A. S. Majumdar

Several pulsar-timing array (PTA) collaborations are finding tantalising hints for a stochastic gravitational wave background signal in the nano-Hertz regime. So far, though, no convincing evidence for the expected Hellings-Downs…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-20 Gianmassimo Tasinato

Multiple pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations have recently reported the first detection of gravitational waves (GWs) of nanohertz frequencies. The signal is expected to be primarily sourced by inspiralling supermassive black hole…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-13 Gabriela Sato-Polito , Matias Zaldarriaga , Eliot Quataert

We analyze the spectrum of gravitational waves generated by the induced spectrum of tensor fluctuation during warm natural inflation. In our previous work it has been demonstrated that an epoch of warm natural inflation can lead to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-19 Miguel Correa , Mayukh R. Gangopadhyay , Nur Jaman , Grant J. Mathews

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