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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

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

Studying the primordial non-Gaussianity of inflationary perturbations is crucial for testing the inflation paradigm of the early universe. In this work, we conduct a comprehensive analysis of the angular bispectrum and trispectrum of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-30 Jun-Peng Li , Sai Wang , Zhi-Chao Zhao , Kazunori Kohri

Since the gravitational waves were detected by LIGO and Virgo, it has been promising that lots of information about the primordial Universe could be learned by further observations on stochastic gravitational waves background. The studies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 Jing-Zhi Zhou , Xukun Zhang , Qing-Hua Zhu , Zhe Chang

In contrast to the large-scale primordial power spectrum $\mathcal{P}_{\zeta}(k)$ and primordial non-Gaussianity $f_{\mathrm{NL}}$, which are strictly constrained, the small-scale $\mathcal{P}_{\zeta}(k)$ and $f_{\mathrm{NL}}$ remain less…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-26 Jing-Zhi Zhou , Zhi-Chao Li , Di Wu

Gravitational waves (GWs) generated by a first-order phase transition at the electroweak scale are detectable by future space-based detectors like LISA. The lifetime of the resulting shock waves plays an important role in determining the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-14 Jani Dahl , Mark Hindmarsh , Kari Rummukainen , David Weir

Produced nonlinearly by the enhanced linear cosmological curvature perturbations, the scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) can serve as a potentially powerful probe of primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) in the early Universe. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 Jun-Peng Li , Sai Wang , Zhi-Chao Zhao , Kazunori Kohri

In this letter we calculate the scalar induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) accompanying the formation of primordial black hole during the radiation dominated era in three different gauges, i.e. synchronous gauge, Newton gauge and uniform…

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

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are supposed to form through the gravitational collapse of regions with large density fluctuations. The formation of PBHs inevitably leads to the emission of scalar-induced gravitational wave (SIGW) signals,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-20 Chen Yuan , De-Shuang Meng , Qing-Guo Huang

Scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) are attracting growing attention for probing extremely short-scale scalar perturbations via gravitational wave measurements. In this paper, we investigate the SIGWs from statistically anisotropic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-08 Chao Chen , Atsuhisa Ota

We give an analytical approximation for the energy spectrum of the scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) generated by a broken power-law power spectrum, and find that both the asymptotic power-law tails and the intermediate peak…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-30 Chong-Zhi Li , Chen Yuan , Qing-guo Huang

In this work, we revisit and evaluate new source terms which contribute to the induced gravitational wave background. We study their respective contributions to the stochastic gravitational wave background by computing their spectral…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-10 Raphael Picard , Luis E. Padilla , Karim A. Malik , David J. Mulryne

We revisit the vital issue of gauge dependence in the scalar-induced secondary gravitational waves (SIGWs), focusing on the radiation domination (RD) and matter domination (MD) eras. The energy density spectrum is the main physical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-10 Arshad Ali , Ya-Peng Hu , Mudassar Sabir , Taotao Sui

The scalar induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) is a useful tool to probe the physics in the early universe. To study inflationary models with this tool, we need to know how the waveform of SIGWs is related to the shape of the scalar power…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-01 Fengge Zhang , Arshad Ali , Yungui Gong , Jiong Lin , Yizhou Lu

The current observational constraints still leave a substantial mass window $\sim [10^{-16},10^{-14}] \cup [10^{-13},10^{-12}] M_\odot$ for primordial black holes (PBHs) representing all of dark matter (DM) in our Universe. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Chen Yuan , Qing-Guo Huang

We find several missing one-loop-order contributions in previous considerations about secondary gravitational waves induced at nonlinear order in cosmological perturbations. We consider a consistent perturbative expansion to third-order in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-03 Chao Chen , Atsuhisa Ota , Hui-Yu Zhu , Yuhang Zhu

Several pulsar timing array (PTA) experiments such as NANOGrav and PPTA recently reported evidence of a gravitational wave (GW) background at nano-Hz frequency band. This signal can originate from scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGW)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-04 Junsong Cang , Yu Gao , Yiming Liu , Sichun Sun

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

We investigate the scalar induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) in the Chern-Simons (CS) modified gravity during the radiation dominated era. The SIGWs are circularly polarized, which provide us a tool to test the possible parity violation in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-19 Fengge Zhang , Jia-Xi Feng , Xian Gao

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