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 …

The gravitational-wave physics II: Progress

L Bian, RG Cai, S Cao, Z Cao, H Gao, ZK Guo… - Science China Physics …, 2021 - Springer
It has been a half-decade since the first direct detection of gravitational waves, which
signifies the coming of the era of the gravitational-wave astronomy and gravitational-wave …

Recent gravitational wave observation by pulsar timing arrays and primordial black holes: The importance of non-Gaussianities

G Franciolini, AJ Iovino, V Vaskonen, H Veermäe - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We study whether the signal seen by pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) may originate from
gravitational waves (GWs) induced by large primordial perturbations. Such perturbations …

Primordial gravitational waves in the nano-Hertz regime and PTA data—towards solving the GW inverse problem

E Madge, E Morgante, C Puchades-Ibáñez… - Journal of High Energy …, 2023 - Springer
A bstract In recent years, several pulsar timing array collaborations have reported first hints
for a stochastic gravitational wave background at nano-Hertz frequencies. Here we …

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 …

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 …

No-go for the formation of heavy mass Primordial Black Holes in Single Field Inflation

S Choudhury, MR Gangopadhyay, M Sami - The European Physical …, 2024 - Springer
We examine the possibility of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) formation in single field models
of inflation. Using the adiabatic or wave function renormalization scheme in the short range …

Anatomy of single-field inflationary models for primordial black holes

A Karam, N Koivunen, E Tomberg… - … of Cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We construct an analytically solvable simplified model that captures the essential features
for primordial black hole (PBH) production in most models of single-field inflation. The …

Squeezed bispectrum and one-loop corrections in transient constant-roll inflation

H Motohashi, Y Tada - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In canonical single-field inflation, the production of primordial black holes (PBH) requires a
transient violation of the slow-roll condition. The transient ultra slow-roll inflation is an …

Ultralow mass primordial black holes in the early Universe can explain the pulsar timing array signal

N Bhaumik, RK Jain, M Lewicki - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Pulsar timing array collaborations have recently announced the discovery of a stochastic
gravitational wave (GW) background at nanohertz frequencies. We analyze the GW signals …