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Pulsar timing arrays gathered evidence of the presence of a gravitational wave background around nHz frequencies. If the gravitational wave background was induced by large and Gaussian primordial fluctuations, they would then produce too…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-18 Shyam Balaji , Guillem Domènech , Gabriele Franciolini

The curvaton and the inhomogeneous reheating scenarios for the generation of the cosmological curvature perturbation on large scales represent an alternative to the standard slow-roll scenario where the observed density perturbations are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Pilo , A. Riotto , A. Zaffaroni

We generalise Phinney's 'practical theorem' to account for modified graviton dispersion relations motivated by certain cosmological scenarios. Focusing on specific examples, we show how such modifications can induce characteristic localised…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-25 Bill Atkins , Ameek Malhotra , Gianmassimo Tasinato

Turbulence may have been produced in the early universe during several kind of non-equilibrium processes. Periods of cosmic turbulence may have left a detectable relic in the form of stochastic backgrounds of gravitational waves. In this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alexander D. Dolgov , Dario Grasso , Alberto Nicolis

Pulsar Timing Arrays are playing a crucial role in the ongoing gravitational wave astronomy revolution. The current evidence for a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) at nHz frequencies offers an opportunity to discover…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-07 Chiara Cecchini , Gabriele Franciolini , Mauro Pieroni

A stochastic background of relic gravitational waves is achieved by the so called adiabatically-amplified zero-point fluctuations process derived from early inflation. In principle, it provides a distinctive spectrum of relic gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Capozziello , Ch. Corda , M De Laurentis

Inflationary gravitational waves, behaving as additional radiation in the Early Universe, can increase the effective number of relativistic species ($N_{\rm eff}$) by a further correction that depends on the integrated energy-density in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-09 William Giarè , Matteo Forconi , Eleonora Di Valentino , Alessandro Melchiorri

To successfully detect gravitational waves with pulsar timing arrays, we need to have a comprehensive understanding of the physical origins and statistical characteristics of the noise in pulse arrival times and identify mitigation methods…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Yan Wang

This article aims at clarifying the situation about astrophysical sources that might be observed with haloscope experiments sensitive to gravitational waves in the 1-10 GHz band. The GrAHal setup is taken as a benchmark. We follow a very…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-13 Aurélien Barrau , Juan García-Bellido , Thierry Grenet , Killian Martineau

We study gravitational waves induced from the primordial scalar perturbations at second order around the reheating of the Universe. We consider reheating scenarios in which a transition from an early matter dominated era to the radiation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-25 Keisuke Inomata , Kazunori Kohri , Tomohiro Nakama , Takahiro Terada

The spectrum of thermal gravitational waves is obtained by including the high frequency thermal gravitons created from extra-dimensional effect and is a new feature of the spectrum. The amplitude and spectral energy density of gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-06-21 Basem Ghayour , P K Suresh

Strong evidence for the Helling-Downs correlation curves have been reported by multiple pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations in middle 2023. In this work, we investigate the graviton mass bounds by analyzing the observational data of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-20 Sai Wang , Zhi-Chao Zhao

Two frequency observations, mainly at 1.4 and 5 GHz from the VLA, have been used to study spectral variations along the lobes of some nearby low luminosity radio galaxies that constitute a representative sample selected from the B2…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Parma , M. Murgia , R. Morganti , A. Capetti , H. R. de Ruiter , R. Fanti

We present the results of a search for gravitational waves (GWs) from individual sources using high-cadence observations of PSR J1909\(-\)3744 obtained during an intensive observing campaign with the International Pulsar Timing Array second…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-13 Jing Zou , Jingbo Wang Jianping Yuan , De Zhao , Yirong Wen , Wei Li , Na Wang , Yong Xia

We reconsider the enhancement of primordial gravitational waves that arises from a quantum gravitational model of inflation. A distinctive feature of this model is that the end of inflation witnesses a brief phase during which the Hubble…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Maria G. Romania , N. C. Tsamis , R. P. Woodard

A precondition for the radio emission of pulsars is the existence of strong, small-scale magnetic field structures (`magnetic spots') in the polar cap region. Their creation can proceed via crustal Hall drift out of two qualitatively and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-01 Arthur George Suvorov , Alpha Mastrano , Ulrich Geppert

Pulsar timing arrays are sensitive to gravitational wave perturbations produced by individual supermassive black hole binaries during their early inspiral phase. Modified gravity theories allow for the emission of gravitational dipole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-03 Logan O'Beirne , Neil J. Cornish , Sarah J. Vigeland , Stephen R. Taylor

The today's energy density of the induced (second order) gravitational wave background in the frequency region $\sim 10^{-3} - 10^3$ Hz is constrained using the existing limits on primordial black hole production in the early Universe. It…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Edgar Bugaev , Peter Klimai

The coherence of the relic gravitons is investigated within a quantum mechanical perspective. After introducing the notion and the properties of the generalized Glauber correlators valid in the tensor case, the degrees of first- and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-19 Massimo Giovannini

Gravitational redshifts of neutron stars have a theoretical upper limit of z=0.62. Also, it is generally believed that neutron stars have magnetic fields on the order of ten to the twelfth to ten to the thirteenth G. A previously predicted…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 David Apsel