Implications for the non-Gaussianity of curvature perturbation from pulsar timing arrays

L Liu, ZC Chen, QG Huang - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
The recently released data by pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations present strong
evidence for a stochastic signal consistent with a gravitational-wave background. Assuming …

From inflation to black hole mergers and back again: Gravitational-wave data-driven constraints on inflationary scenarios with a first-principle model of primordial black …

G Franciolini, I Musco, P Pani, A Urbano - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
Recent population studies have searched for a subpopulation of primordial black holes
(PBHs) in the gravitational-wave (GW) events so far detected by LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA (LVK) …

Scalar induced gravitational waves in light of Pulsar Timing Array data

Z Yi, Q Gao, Y Gong, Y Wang, F Zhang - Science China Physics …, 2023 - Springer
The power-law parametrization for the energy density spectrum of gravitational wave (GW)
background is a useful tool to study its physics and origin. While scalar induced secondary …

Two populations of LIGO-Virgo black holes

G Hütsi, M Raidal, V Vaskonen… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We analyse the LIGO-Virgo data, including the recently released GWTC-2dataset, to test a
hypothesis that the data contains more than one population of black holes. We perform a …

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 …

Constraints on primordial curvature power spectrum with pulsar timing arrays

ZQ You, Z Yi, Y Wu - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The stochastic signal detected by NANOGrav, PPTA, EPTA, and CPTA can be explained by
the scalar-induced gravitational waves. In order to determine the scalar-induced …

Cosmological interpretation for the stochastic signal in pulsar timing arrays

YM Wu, ZC Chen, QG Huang - Science China Physics, Mechanics & …, 2024 - Springer
The pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations have recently reported compelling evidence for
a stochastic signal consistent with a gravitational-wave background. In this paper, we …

Hunt for light primordial black hole dark matter with ultrahigh-frequency gravitational waves

G Franciolini, A Maharana, F Muia - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
Light primordial black holes may comprise a dominant fraction of the dark matter in our
Universe. This paper critically assesses whether planned and future gravitational wave …

Prospective constraints on the primordial black hole abundance from the stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds produced by coalescing events and curvature …

S Wang, T Terada, K Kohri - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
For a variety of ongoing and planned gravitational-wave (GW) experiments, we study
expected constraints on the fraction (f PBH) of primordial black holes (PBHs) in dark matter …