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Oscillons are long-lived, localized excitations of nonlinear scalar fields which may be copiously produced during preheating after inflation, leading to a possible oscillon-dominated phase in the early Universe. For example, this can happen…

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The advent of gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy has presented us with a completely new means for observing the Universe, allowing us to probe its structure and evolution like never before. In this thesis, we explore three distinct but…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-14 Alexander C. Jenkins

Non-singular matter bouncing cosmological setups are of particular interest since apart from adressing the initial singularity problem they can give rise as well to a nearly scale-invariant curvature power spectrum on scales…

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The recent detection of a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) at nanohertz frequencies by pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) has sparked a flurry of interest. Beyond the standard interpretation that the progenitor is a network of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-06 Bryce Cyr , Thomas Kite , Jens Chluba , J. Colin Hill , Donghui Jeong , Sandeep Kumar Acharya , Boris Bolliet , Subodh P. Patil

The stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) detected recently by the pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) observations may have cosmological origins. In this work we consider a model of single field inflation containing an intermediate phase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-10 Hassan Firouzjahi , Alireza Talebian

Cosmological stochastic gravitational waves (GWs) induced by a spectator field are usually expected to have an amplitude very small compared with those generated by the curvature perturbation, or equivalently by a field dominating the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-04 Mohammad Ali Gorji , Misao Sasaki

The non-thermal nature of the cosmological gravitational wave background (CGWB) makes it difficult to define the initial condition for the graviton distribution, which determines the initial contribution to the CGWB anisotropies.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-19 Lorenzo Valbusa Dall'Armi , Alina Mierna , Sabino Matarrese , Angelo Ricciardone

Newborn magnetars are important gravitational wave sources due to their ultra-strong magnetic fields and fast spins, and the entire population in the Universe may significantly contribute to the stochastic gravitational wave background…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-12 Yu-Long Yan , Quan Cheng , Xiao-Ping Zheng , Xiao-Yue Yu

Recent detection of nHz stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) by multiple pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) has stimulated intensive discussions about its physical origin. In principle, either supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-10 Xiao Xue , Zhen Pan , Liang Dai

This work studies the impact of a new higher-order generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) on the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) associated with a QCD-scale first-order phase transition. Assuming a strongly first-order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-05 Zhong-Wen Feng , Long-Xiang Li , Shi-Yu Li , Qing-Quan Jiang , Xia Zhou

Primordial gravitational waves provide a very important stochastic background that could be detected soon with interferometric gravitational wave antennas or indirectly via the induced patterns in the polarization anisotropies of the cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-27 Jean-Francois Dufaux , Daniel G. Figueroa , Juan Garcia-Bellido

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

The stochastic background of gravitational wave signals arising from the core-collapse supernovae is produced through various complex mechanisms that need detailed and careful investigation. We proposed a simplified multi-peak waveform of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-27 Sourav Roy Chowdhury , Maxim Khlopov

We generalize to reduced Horndeski theories of gravity, where gravitational waves (GWs) travel at the speed of light, the expression of a statistically homogeneous and unpolarized stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) signal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-01 João C. Lobato , Isabela S. Matos , Maurício O. Calvão , Ioav Waga

A stochastic gravitational wave background is a prediction of a number of astrophysical and cosmological phenomena including early Universe Cosmology. Recently, the NANOGrav Collaboration reported conclusive evidence for a stochastic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-08 Ido Ben-Dayan , Utkarsh Kumar , Udaykrishna Thattarampilly , Amresh Verma

Early dark energy that relieves Hubble tension leaves a fingerprint in the primordial stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background that originates from cosmic string network. The signal is not only detectable with future planned GW…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 Chia-Feng Chang

Particle phase transitions in the early universe including electroweak and grand unification ones are well-studied subjects. We point out that there are new possible particle phase transitions around inflation. Those new inflationary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 Sichun Sun

The gravitational potential of initially Poisson distributed primordial black holes (PBH) can induce a stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) at second order in cosmological perturbation theory. This SGWB was previously studied in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-01 Theodoros Papanikolaou

We compute the stochastic gravitational wave production from Affleck-Dine condensate fragmentation in the early universe, focusing on an effective potential with a logarithmic mass correction that typically arises in gravity mediated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-12 Shuang-Yong Zhou

Cosmic strings and first-order phase transition are two main sources for the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB). In this work, we study the stochastic gravitational wave radiation from cosmic string which is formed after the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-25 Ruiyu Zhou , Ligong Bian