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 …

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 …

Space gravitational wave detection: Progress and outlook

WT Ni - arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.00927, 2024 - arxiv.org
Space-based gravitational wave detection is based on the astrodynamical equations
derived from gravitational theory to detect changes in distance between spacecraft/celestial …

[HTML][HTML] Gravitational wave emission from metastable current-carrying strings in E6

A Afzal, Q Shafi, A Tiwari - Physics Letters B, 2024 - Elsevier
We discuss E 6 based extensions of the Standard Model (SM) containing two varieties of
superheavy metastable cosmic strings (CSs) that respectively have neutral and electrically …

Correlations for an anisotropic polarized stochastic gravitational wave background in pulsar timing arrays

RC Bernardo, GC Liu, KW Ng - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The recent compelling observation of the nanohertz stochastic gravitational wave
background has brought to light a new galactic arena to test gravity. In this paper, we derive …

Explaining PTA results by metastable cosmic strings from SO (10) GUT

S Antusch, K Hinze, S Saad - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
In a recent paper (Phys. Rev. D 108 (2023) 095053), we have demonstrated that the 2023
PTA results, which hint at a stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background at nanohertz …

PeV-Scale SUSY and Cosmic Strings from F-term Hybrid Inflation

C Pallis - Universe, 2024 - mdpi.com
We consider F-term hybrid inflation (FHI) and SUSY breaking in the context of a B− L
extension of the MSSM that largely respects a global U (1) R symmetry. The hidden sector …

Detecting a Gravitational-Wave Background from Null Energy Condition Violation: Prospects for Taiji

ZC Chen, L Liu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.08375, 2024 - arxiv.org
The null energy condition (NEC) is a fundamental principle in general relativity, and its
violation could leave discernible signatures in gravitational waves (GWs). A violation of the …

A Big Ring on the Sky

AM Lopez, RG Clowes, GM Williger - arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.07591, 2024 - arxiv.org
We present the discovery ofA Big Ring on the Sky'(BR), the second ultra-large-scale
structure (uLSS) found in MgII-absorber catalogues, following the previously reported Giant …