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20242026
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7 papers

gr-qc2026

Resonances as signatures of scalar clouds in eccentric extreme-mass-ratio inspirals

Qi-Xuan Xu, Richard Brito, Riccardo Della Monica +2

Ultralight scalars arise naturally in many extensions to the Standard Model and are compelling dark matter candidates. Around spinning black holes, dense scalar clouds could form t…

gr-qc2026

Relativistic effects in extreme-mass-ratio inspirals within scalar clouds: Eccentric and inclined orbits

Qi-Xuan Xu, Richard Brito, Riccardo Della Monica +2

We study extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) evolving in a scalar cloud environment that may form through superradiant instabilities, using a fully relativistic perturbative frame…

astro-ph.CO2026

One-Loop Tensor Power Spectrum from a Non-Canonical Spectator Field during Inflation

Zhe Li, Chen Yuan, Qing-Guo Huang

We compute the full one-loop corrections to the primordial tensor power spectrum in an inflationary scenario with a {non-canonical spectator field}, using the in-in formalism. We d…

astro-ph.CO2025

Whispers from the Early Universe: The Ringdown of Primordial Black Holes

Chen Yuan, Zhen Zhong, Qing-Guo Huang

We investigate the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) generated by the ringdown phase of primordial black holes (PBHs) formed in the early universe. As the ringdown si…

gr-qc2025

Gravitational Waves Induced by Scalar Perturbations with a Broken Power-law Peak

Chong-Zhi Li, Chen Yuan, Qing-guo Huang

We give an analytical approximation for the energy spectrum of the scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) generated by a broken power-law power spectrum, and find that both the…

gr-qc2025

Gravitational Waves from Accretion Disks: Turbulence, Mode Excitation and Prospects for Future Detectors

Chen Yuan, Vitor Cardoso, Francisco Duque +1

We study gravitational-wave emission by turbulent flows in accretion disks around spinning black holes or neutron stars. We aim to understand how turbulence can stochastically exci…