3 papers
astro-ph.IM2026
How Low Can We Go? Minimum Spectroscopic Requirements For Supernova Subtype Classification
Willow Fox Fortino, Federica B. Bianco, Maryam Modjaz +2
Millions of supernovae will be discovered with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). As a result, spectrographs around the world will have to make d…
astro-ph.CO2025
Primordial Black Holes and Second-order Gravitational Waves in Axion-like Hybrid Inflation
Waqas Ahmed, Anish Ghoshal, Umer Zubair
We investigate the possibility that primordial black holes (PBHs) can be formed from large curvature perturbations generated during the waterfall phase transition in a hybrid infla…
hep-ph2025
Smooth -Hybrid and Non-Minimal Higgs Inflation in With Observable Gravitational Waves
Umer Zubair
We propose to study a smooth variant of the -hybrid inflation model and a non-minimal Higgs model of inflation with quartic non-minimal coupling between the Higgs field and gra…