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 …

Obviating PBH overproduction for SIGWs generated by pulsar timing arrays in loop corrected EFT of bounce

S Choudhury, S Ganguly, S Panda… - … of Cosmology and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
In order to unravel the present situation of the PBH overproduction problem, our study
emphasizes the critical role played by the equation of state (EoS) parameter w within the …

Charting the nanohertz gravitational wave sky with pulsar timing arrays

RC Bernardo, KW Ng - arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.07955, 2024 - arxiv.org
In the summer of 2023, the pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) announced a compelling evidence
for the existence of a nanohertz stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB). Despite …

Beyond the Hellings–Downs curve: Non-Einsteinian gravitational waves in pulsar timing array correlations

RC Bernardo, KW Ng - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2024 - aanda.org
Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) have revealed galaxy-size gravitational waves (GWs) in the form
of a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB), correlating the radio pulses emitted …

Scalar induced gravitational waves in metric teleparallel gravity with the Nieh-Yan term

F Zhang, JX Feng, X Gao - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We investigate the scalar induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) in metric teleparallel gravity
with the Nieh-Yan (NY) term, which results in parity violation during the radiation-dominated …

Enhanced induced gravitational waves in Horndeski gravity

G Domènech, A Ganz - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle …, 2025 - iopscience.iop.org
We study secondary gravitational wave production in Horndeski gravity when the scalar field
dominates the very early universe. We find that higher derivative interactions easily …

Unveiling the existence of nontensorial gravitational-wave polarizations from individual supermassive black hole binaries with pulsar timing arrays

D Liang, S Chen, C Zhang, L Shao - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
With the strong evidence for a gravitational wave (GW) background in the nanohertz
frequency band from pulsar timing arrays, the detection of continuous GWs from individual …

Constraining string cosmology with the gravitational-wave background using the NANOGrav 15-year data set

Q Tan, Y Wu, L Liu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.17846, 2024 - arxiv.org
The North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav)
collaboration has recently reported strong evidence for a signal at nanohertz, potentially the …

Pre-Big-Bang Cosmology Cannot Explain NANOGrav 15-year Signal

Q Tan, Y Wu, L Liu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.16505, 2024 - arxiv.org
We investigate whether the Pre-Big Bang (PBB) scenario from string cosmology can explain
the stochastic gravitational wave background signal reported in the NANOGrav 15-year …

[HTML][HTML] Search for the non-linearities of gravitational wave background in NANOGrav 15-year data set

JQ Jiang, YS Piao - Physics Letters B, 2025 - Elsevier
The recently reported signal of common red noise between pulsars by several pulsar timing
array collaborations has been thought as evidence of the stochastic gravitational wave …