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Primordial scalar curvature perturbations ($\zeta$), typically probed on large cosmological scales via CMB and LSS observations, can be significantly enhanced on smaller scales by various early Universe mechanisms, for instance, non-minimal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-30 Mauro Pieroni

In June 2023, multiple pulsar timing array collaborations provided evidence for the existence of a stochastic gravitational wave background. Scalar induced gravitational waves (SIGWs), as one of the most likely sources of stochastic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-07 Jing-Zhi Zhou , Yu-Ting Kuang , Zhe Chang , H. Lü

We investigate the production of primordial black holes (PBHs) and scalar-induced gravitational waves (GWs) for cosmological models in the Horndeski theory of gravity. The cosmological models of our interest incorporate the derivative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-20 Pisin Chen , Seoktae Koh , Gansukh Tumurtushaa

Gravitational waves (GWs) induced by scalar curvature fluctuations are an important source of the cosmological GW background and a crucial counterpart of the primordial black hole scenario. However, doubts have been cast on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-14 Guillem Domènech , Misao Sasaki

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

Parametric resonance in a single-field inflationary model with a periodic structure on the potential gives rise to curvature perturbations with large amplitudes on small scales, which could result in observable primordial black holes (PBHs)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-02 Zhi-Zhang Peng , Chengjie Fu , Jing Liu , Zong-Kuan Guo , Rong-Gen Cai

Primordial black hole (PBH) mergers have been proposed as an explanation for the gravitational wave events detected by the LIGO collaboration. Such PBHs may be formed in the early Universe as a result of the collapse of extremely rare…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-20 Tomohiro Nakama , Joseph Silk , Marc Kamionkowski

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

We study the scalar induced gravitational wave (GW) background in inflation with gravitationally enhanced friction (GEF). The GEF mechanism, which is realized by assuming a nonminimal derivative coupling between the inflaton field and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-31 Chengjie Fu , Puxun Wu , Hongwei Yu

Compared to primordial perturbations on large scales, roughly larger than $1$ megaparsec, those on smaller scales are not severely constrained. We revisit the issue of probing small-scale primordial perturbations using gravitational waves…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 Keisuke Inomata , Tomohiro Nakama

The imprint of gravitational waves (GWs) on large-scale structures (LSS) is a useful and promising way to detect or to constrain them. Tensor fossils have been largely studied in the literature as an indirect way to detect primordial GWs.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 Pritha Bari , Daniele Bertacca , Nicola Bartolo , Angelo Ricciardone , Serena Giardiello , Sabino Matarrese

We derive the complete spectrum of gravitational waves induced by primordial scalar perturbations ranging over all observable wavelengths. This scalar-induced contribution can be computed directly from the observed scalar perturbations and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel Baumann , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Paul J. Steinhardt , Keitaro Takahashi

Gravitational waves (GWs) originating from cosmological sources offer direct insights into the physics of the primordial Universe, the fundamental nature of gravity, and the cosmic expansion of the Universe. In this review paper, we present…

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

We investigate density fluctuations and scalar-induced gravitational waves (GWs) arising from the production of long-lived solitons and oscillons, which can dominate the early Universe and drive reheating prior to the standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-22 Xiao-Bin Sui , Jing Liu , Rong-Gen Cai

Gravitational waves are inevitably produced by second order terms in cosmological perturbation theory. Most notably, the so-called induced gravitational waves are a window to the small scales part of the primordial spectrum of fluctuations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-22 Guillem Domènech

We study the non-Gaussianity and secondary Gravitational Waves (GWs) in the process of the Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) production from inflation. In our work, we focus on the $\alpha$-attractor inflation model in which a tiny bump in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-31 Kazem Rezazadeh , Zeinab Teimoori , Saeid Karimi , Kayoomars Karami

Modified expansion rates in the early Universe prior to big bang nucleosynthesis are common in modified gravity theories, and can have a significant impact on the generation of dark matter, matter-antimatter asymmetry, primordial black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-09 Nicolás Bernal , Anish Ghoshal , Fazlollah Hajkarim , Gaetano Lambiase

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

Gravitational waves (GWs) induced by primordial fluctuations can be affected by the modification of the sound speed $c^2_{\rm s}$ and the equation of state parameter $w$ once the curvature fluctuations reenter the cosmological horizon. That…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-12 Albert Escrivà , Yuichiro Tada , Chul-Moon Yoo