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 …

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 …

Model-independent reconstruction of the primordial curvature power spectrum from PTA data

Z Yi, ZQ You, Y Wu - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently released data from pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations provide strong
evidence for a stochastic signal consistent with a gravitational-wave background, potentially …

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 …

Phase transition during inflation and the gravitational wave signal at pulsar timing arrays

H An, B Su, H Tai, LT Wang, C Yang - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
The gravitational wave (GW) signal offers a promising window into the dynamics of the early
Universe. The recent results from the pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) could be the first glimpse of …

Search for nontensorial gravitational-wave backgrounds in the NANOGrav 15-year dataset

ZC Chen, YM Wu, YC Bi, QG Huang - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
The recent detection of a stochastic signal in the NANOGrav 15-year dataset has aroused
great interest in uncovering its origin. However, the evidence for the Hellings-Downs …

NANOGrav hints for first-order confinement-deconfinement phase transition in different QCD-matter scenarios

ZC Chen, SL Li, P Wu, H Yu - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Recent observations from several pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations have unveiled
compelling evidence for a stochastic signal in the nanohertz band. This signal aligns …

Cosmological gravitational waves from isocurvature fluctuations

G Domènech - AAPPS Bulletin, 2024 - Springer
Gravitational waves induced by large primordial curvature fluctuations may result in a
sizable stochastic gravitational wave background. Interestingly, curvature fluctuations are …