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 …

Large fluctuations and primordial black holes

S Choudhury, M Sami - Physics Reports, 2025 - Elsevier
In this paper, we review in detail different mechanisms of generation of large primordial
fluctuations and their implications for the production of primordial black holes (PBHs) and …

[HTML][HTML] Inflationary interpretation of the stochastic gravitational wave background signal detected by pulsar timing array experiments

S Vagnozzi - Journal of High Energy Astrophysics, 2023 - Elsevier
Various pulsar timing array (PTA) experiments (NANOGrav, EPTA, PPTA, CPTA, including
data from InPTA) very recently reported evidence for excess red common-spectrum signals …

Cosmological background interpretation of pulsar timing array data

DG Figueroa, M Pieroni, A Ricciardone… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We discuss the interpretation of the detected signal by pulsar timing array (PTA)
observations as a gravitational wave background of cosmological origin. We combine …

Limits on scalar-induced gravitational waves from the stochastic background by pulsar timing array observations

YF Cai, XC He, XH Ma, SF Yan, GW Yuan - Science bulletin, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Recently, the NANOGrav, PPTA, EPTA, and CPTA Collaborations independently
reported their evidence of the Stochastic Gravitational Waves Background (SGWB). While …

Scalar-induced gravitational wave interpretation of PTA data: the role of scalar fluctuation propagation speed

S Balaji, G Domènech… - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Pulsar timing arrays gathered evidence of the presence of a gravitational wave background
around nHz frequencies. If the gravitational wave background was induced by large and …

PBHs and GWs from 𝕋2-inflation and NANOGrav 15-year data

SAH Mansoori, F Felegary, A Talebian… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we propose a novel mechanism in Bbb T 2-inflation to enhance the power
spectrum large enough to seed primordial black holes (PBHs) formation. To accomplish this …

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) …

Translating nano-Hertz gravitational wave background into primordial perturbations taking account of the cosmological QCD phase transition

KT Abe, Y Tada - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
The evidence of the nano-Hertz stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background is reported
by multiple pulsar timing array collaborations. While a prominent candidate of the origin is …

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 …