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The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Search for Signals from New Physics

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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
卷 951, 期 1, 页码 -

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IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/acdc91

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The 15 yr pulsar timing data set from NANOGrav presents positive evidence for a low-frequency gravitational-wave background. The paper explores various cosmological interpretations of this signal and finds that most models, except for stable cosmic strings, can reproduce the observed signal. However, these findings depend on modeling assumptions and shouldn't be considered as evidence for new physics. In addition, the paper identifies excluded parameter regions where the predicted gravitational-wave signal exceeds the NANOGrav signal.
The 15 yr pulsar timing data set collected by the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) shows positive evidence for the presence of a low-frequency gravitational-wave (GW) background. In this paper, we investigate potential cosmological interpretations of this signal, specifically cosmic inflation, scalar-induced GWs, first-order phase transitions, cosmic strings, and domain walls. We find that, with the exception of stable cosmic strings of field theory origin, all these models can reproduce the observed signal. When compared to the standard interpretation in terms of inspiraling supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs), many cosmological models seem to provide a better fit resulting in Bayes factors in the range from 10 to 100. However, these results strongly depend on modeling assumptions about the cosmic SMBHB population and, at this stage, should not be regarded as evidence for new physics. Furthermore, we identify excluded parameter regions where the predicted GW signal from cosmological sources significantly exceeds the NANOGrav signal. These parameter constraints are independent of the origin of the NANOGrav signal and illustrate how pulsar timing data provide a new way to constrain the parameter space of these models. Finally, we search for deterministic signals produced by models of ultralight dark matter (ULDM) and dark matter substructures in the Milky Way. We find no evidence for either of these signals and thus report updated constraints on these models. In the case of ULDM, these constraints outperform torsion balance and atomic clock constraints for ULDM coupled to electrons, muons, or gluons.

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