Primordial black holes and their gravitational-wave signatures

E Bagui, S Clesse, V De Luca, JM Ezquiaga… - Living Reviews in …, 2025 - Springer
In the recent years, primordial black holes (PBHs) have emerged as one of the most
interesting and hotly debated topics in cosmology. Among other possibilities, PBHs could …

First-order phase transition interpretation of pulsar timing array signal is consistent with solar-mass black holes

Y Gouttenoire - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We perform a Bayesian analysis of NANOGrav 15-yr and IPTA DR2 pulsar timing residuals
and show that the recently detected stochastic gravitational-wave background is compatible …

Can supercooled phase transitions explain the gravitational wave background observed by pulsar timing arrays?

P Athron, A Fowlie, CT Lu, L Morris, L Wu, Y Wu… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Several pulsar timing array collaborations recently reported evidence of a stochastic
gravitational wave background (SGWB) at nHz frequencies. While the SGWB could originate …

Singling out SO (10) GUT models using recent PTA results

S Antusch, K Hinze, S Saad, J Steiner - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
In this work, we construct promising model-building routes towards SO (10) grand unified
theory inflation and examine their ability to explain the recent pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) …

Confronting sound speed resonance with pulsar timing arrays

JH Jin, ZC Chen, Z Yi, ZQ You, L Liu… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The stochastic signal detected by pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) has raised great interest in
understanding its physical origin. Assuming the signal is a cosmological gravitational-wave …

Probing the equation of state of the early Universe with pulsar timing arrays

L Liu, ZC Chen, QG Huang - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The recently released data by pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations have amassed
substantial evidence corroborating the existence of a stochastic signal consistent with a …

Supercooling in radiative symmetry breaking: theory extensions, gravitational wave detection and primordial black holes

A Salvio - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
First-order phase transitions, which take place when the symmetries are predominantly
broken (and masses are then generated) through radiative corrections, produce observable …

Broken blue-tilted inflationary gravitational waves: a joint analysis of NANOGrav 15-year and BICEP/Keck 2018 data

JQ Jiang, Y Cai, G Ye, YS Piao - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently, the pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations have reported the evidence for a
stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) at nano-Hertz band. The spectrum of …

Nano-Hertz gravitational waves from collapsing domain walls associated with freeze-in dark matter in light of pulsar timing array observations

Z Zhang, C Cai, YH Su, S Wang, ZH Yu, HH Zhang - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Evidence for a stochastic gravitational wave background in the nHz frequency band is
recently reported by four pulsar timing array collaborations NANOGrav, EPTA, CPTA, and …

Simultaneously probing the sound speed and equation of state of the early Universe with pulsar timing arrays

L Liu, Y Wu, ZC Chen - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently, several major pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations have assembled strong
evidence for the existence of a gravitational-wave background at frequencies around the …