Cosmology with the laser interferometer space antenna

P Auclair, D Bacon, T Baker, T Barreiro… - Living Reviews in …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) has two scientific objectives of
cosmological focus: to probe the expansion rate of the universe, and to understand …

Challenges for ΛCDM: An update

L Perivolaropoulos, F Skara - New Astronomy Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
A number of challenges to the standard Λ CDM model have been emerging during the past
few years as the accuracy of cosmological observations improves. In this review we discuss …

Cosmic superstrings revisited in light of NANOGrav 15-year data

J Ellis, M Lewicki, C Lin, V Vaskonen - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We analyze cosmic superstring models in light of NANOGrav 15-year pulsar timing data. A
good fit is found for a string tension G μ∼ 10-12–10-11 and a string intercommutation …

What is the source of the PTA GW signal?

J Ellis, M Fairbairn, G Franciolini, G Hütsi, A Iovino… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
The most conservative interpretation of the nHz stochastic gravitational wave background
(SGWB) discovered by NANOGrav and other pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations is …

NANOGrav data hints at primordial black holes as dark matter

V De Luca, G Franciolini, A Riotto - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
The NANOGrav Collaboration has recently published strong evidence for a stochastic
common-spectrum process that may be interpreted as a stochastic gravitational wave …

Cosmic string interpretation of NANOGrav pulsar timing data

J Ellis, M Lewicki - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Pulsar timing data used to provide upper limits on a possible stochastic gravitational wave
background (SGWB). However, the NANOGrav Collaboration has recently reported strong …

The assembly of the first massive black holes

K Inayoshi, E Visbal, Z Haiman - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The existence of∼ 109M⊙ supermassive black holes (SMBHs) within the first billion years
of the Universe has stimulated numerous ideas for the prompt formation and rapid growth of …

Detecting high-frequency gravitational waves with microwave cavities

A Berlin, D Blas, RT D'Agnolo, SAR Ellis, R Harnik… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We give a detailed treatment of electromagnetic signals generated by gravitational waves
(GWs) in resonant cavity experiments. Our investigation corrects and builds upon previous …

Primordial gravitational waves from NANOGrav: A broken power-law approach

M Benetti, LL Graef, S Vagnozzi - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We revisit the possibility that the stochastic common-spectrum process recently detected by
the NANOGrav pulsar timing array experiment could be due to primordial gravitational …

Gravitational waves from supermassive black hole binaries in light of the NANOGrav 15-year data

J Ellis, M Fairbairn, G Hütsi, J Raidal, J Urrutia… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
The NANOGrav and other pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) have recently announced evidence
for nHz gravitational waves (GWs) that may originate from supermassive black hole (SMBH) …