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 …

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 …

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 …

Constraining the merger history of primordial-black-hole binaries from GWTC-3

L Liu, ZQ You, Y Wu, ZC Chen - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Primordial black holes (PBHs) can be not only cold dark matter candidates but also
progenitors of binary black holes observed by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration. The …

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 …

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 …

Prospects for Taiji to detect a gravitational-wave background from cosmic strings

ZC Chen, QG Huang, C Liu, L Liu, XJ Liu… - … of Cosmology and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently, multiple pulsar timing array collaborations have presented compelling evidence
for a stochastic signal at nanohertz frequencies, potentially originating from cosmic strings …

Primordial black holes in the curvaton model: possible connections to pulsar timing arrays and dark matter

G Ferrante, G Franciolini, AJ Iovino… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We revise primordial black holes (PBHs) production in the axion-curvaton model, in light of
recent developments in the computation of their abundance accounting for non …