Large fluctuations and primordial black holes

S Choudhury, M Sami - Physics Reports, 2025 - Elsevier
In this paper, we review in detail different mechanisms of generation of large primordial
fluctuations and their implications for the production of primordial black holes (PBHs) and …

[HTML][HTML] Inflationary interpretation of the stochastic gravitational wave background signal detected by pulsar timing array experiments

S Vagnozzi - Journal of High Energy Astrophysics, 2023 - Elsevier
Various pulsar timing array (PTA) experiments (NANOGrav, EPTA, PPTA, CPTA, including
data from InPTA) very recently reported evidence for excess red common-spectrum signals …

Footprints of the QCD crossover on cosmological gravitational waves at pulsar timing arrays

G Franciolini, D Racco, F Rompineve - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) have reported evidence for a stochastic gravitational wave (GW)
background at nanohertz frequencies, possibly originating in the early Universe. We show …

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 …

Scalar-induced gravitational wave interpretation of PTA data: the role of scalar fluctuation propagation speed

S Balaji, G Domènech… - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Pulsar timing arrays gathered evidence of the presence of a gravitational wave background
around nHz frequencies. If the gravitational wave background was induced by large and …

Detected stochastic gravitational waves and subsolar-mass primordial black holes

K Inomata, K Kohri, T Terada - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Multiple pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations recently announced the evidence of
common-spectral processes caused by gravitational waves (GWs). These can be the …

A nicer view of the nearest and brightest millisecond pulsar: Psr j0437–4715

D Choudhury, T Salmi, S Vinciguerra… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We report Bayesian inference of the mass, radius, and hot X-ray emitting region properties—
using data from the Neutron Star Interior Composition ExploreR (NICER)—for the brightest …

Implications for the supermassive black hole binaries from the NANOGrav 15-year data set

YC Bi, YM Wu, ZC Chen, QG Huang - Science China Physics, Mechanics …, 2023 - Springer
Several pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations, including NANOGrav, EPTA, PPTA, and
CPTA, have announced the evidence for a stochastic signal consistent with a stochastic …

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 …

NANOGrav signal from axion inflation

X Niu, MH Rahat - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Several pulsar timing arrays including NANOGrav, EPTA, PPTA, and CPTA have recently
reported the observation of a stochastic background of gravitational wave spectrum in the …