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The scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGW), arising from large amplitude primordial density fluctuations, provide a unique observational test for directly probing the epoch of inflation. In this work, we provide constraints on the SIGW…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-09 Ryoto Inui , Santiago Jaraba , Sachiko Kuroyanagi , Shuichiro Yokoyama

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

We investigate the non-Gaussianity of second-order matter density perturbations induced by primordial gravitational waves (GWs). These tensor-induced scalar modes arise from local fluctuations in the GWs energy density, which is quadratic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Mariam Abdelaziz , Pritha Bari , Sabino Matarrese , Angelo Ricciardone

Scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) have recently attracted considerable interest, both as a possible explanation for the nanohertz signal reported by the Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) collaboration and for their connection with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 William Iania , Angelo Ricciardone

We analyse the effects of a non-standard evolution of the Universe during the reheating epoch on the spectrum of scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) accounting for the presence of primordial non-Gaussianity. We show that given values…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-10 Gabriele Perna , Guillem Domènech

The primordial stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) carries first-hand messages of early-universe physics, possibly including effects from inflation, preheating, cosmic strings, electroweak symmetry breaking, and etc. However,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-16 Zhen Pan , Huan Yang

Large-scale primordial perturbations have been well constrained by current cosmological observations, but the properties of small-scale perturbations remain elusive. This study focuses on second-order induced gravitational waves generated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 Di Wu , Zhi-Chao Li , Peng-Yu Wu , Fei-Yu Chen , Jing-Zhi Zhou

Primordial gravitational waves (PGWs) generate scalar density perturbations at second order. Since the induced density contrast is quadratic in the tensor field, it is intrinsically non-Gaussian. We study the imprint of this tensor-induced…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-05 Mariam Abdelaziz , Pritha Bari , Sabino Matarrese , Angelo Ricciardone

Recently, strong evidence for a gravitational wave background has been reported by collaborations of pulsar timing arrays (PTA). In the framework of scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs), we concurrently investigate the second and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-28 Sai Wang , Zhi-Chao Zhao , Qing-Hua Zhu

This paper explores the physics of second-order gravitational waves (GWs) induced by scalar-tensor perturbation interactions in the radiation-dominated Universe. We investigate the distinctive signatures of these GWs and their detectability…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-04 Pritha Bari , Nicola Bartolo , Guillem Domènech , Sabino Matarrese

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

The stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) contains a wealth of information on astrophysical and cosmological processes. A major challenge of upcoming years will be to extract the information contained in this background and to…

Supposing the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) gravitational wave (GW) detector, we exhibit the detectability of a hypothetical smooth crossover in the early universe beyond the Standard Model of particle physics through the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-04 Albert Escrivà , Ryoto Inui , Yuichiro Tada , Chul-Moon Yoo

Scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) provide a powerful probe of inflationary dynamics on scales far smaller than those accessible to the cosmic microwave background and large-scale structure. In scenarios with a transient…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-07 Angelo Caravano , Gabriele Franciolini , Sébastien Renaux-Petel

Whether or not the primordial gravitational wave (GW) produced during inflation is sufficiently strong to be observable, GWs are necessarily produced from the primordial curvature perturbations in the second order of perturbation. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-02 Kazunori Kohri , Takahiro Terada

Multiple pulsar-timing-array collaborations have reported strong evidence for the existence of a gravitational-wave background. We study physical implications of this signal for cosmology, assuming that it is attributed to scalar-induced…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-25 Sai Wang , Zhi-Chao Zhao , Jun-Peng Li , Qing-Hua Zhu

Primordial non-Gaussianity encodes vital information of the physics of the early universe, particularly during the inflationary epoch. To explore the local-type primordial non-Gaussianity $f_{\mathrm{NL}}$, we study the anisotropies in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-25 Jun-Peng Li , Sai Wang , Zhi-Chao Zhao , Kazunori Kohri

Stochastic gravitational waves can be induced from the primordial curvature perturbations generated during inflation, through scalar-tensor mode coupling at the second order of cosmological perturbation theory. Here we discuss a model of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-07 Richa Arya , Arvind Kumar Mishra

We investigate in detail the spectrum of gravitational waves induced by a peaked primordial curvature power spectrum generated in single field inflationary models. We argue that the $f_{\rm NL}$ parameter can be inferred by measuring the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-15 Vicente Atal , Guillem Domènech

If primordial scalar or tensor perturbations are enhanced on short scales, it may lead to the production of observable gravitational wave signals. These waves may be sourced by scalar-scalar, scalar-tensor or tensor-tensor interactions.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-24 Raphaël Picard , Matthew W. Davies