5–9 Jul 2026
University of Canterbury
Pacific/Auckland timezone

Interpreting Pulsar Timing Array data of Gravitational waves with bouncing cosmology

Not scheduled
20m
Rātā / Engineering Core Building (University of Canterbury)

Rātā / Engineering Core Building

University of Canterbury

63 Creyke Road, Ilam, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand

Speaker

Taotao Qiu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

Description

Recent pulsar timing array (PTA) experiments have reported strong evidence of the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB). If interpreted as primordial gravitational waves, the signal favors a strongly blue-tilted spectrum. On the other hand, the Ekpyrosis-bouncing cosmology with a strongly blue-tilted gravitational wave spectrum, i.e., nT ≃ 2, offers a potential explanation for the observed SGWB signal. In this poster, we show that Ekpyrosis-bouncing model is capable to intepret the PTA result without pathologies. Moreover, the scalar perturbations also fit the constraints from the current observations.

Research Area Cosmology

Author

Taotao Qiu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

Presentation materials