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Paper   IPM / Astronomy / 17450
School of Astronomy
  Title:   Induced gravitational waves from ultra slow-roll inflation and pulsar timing arrays observations
  Author(s): 
1.  H. Firouzjahi
2.  A. Talebian
  Status:   Published
  Journal: JCAP
  Vol.:  2023
  Year:  2023
  Supported by:            ipm IPM
  Abstract:
The stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) detected recently by the pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) observations may have cosmological origins. In this work we consider a model of single field inflation containing an intermediate phase of ultra slow-roll. Fixing the amplitude of the peak of curvature perturbations by the PBHs bounds we calculate the gravitational waves (GWs) induced from the curvature perturbations enhanced during USR. The spectrum of the induced GWs depends on the sharpness of the transition from the USR phase to the final attractor phase as well as to the duration of the USR period. While the model can accommodate the current PTAs data but it has non-trivial predictions for the induced GWs on higher frequency ranges which can be tested by future observations.

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