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Caught by its own light: Wimpzillas, the LHAASO knee and the diffuse -ray sky
D. Akl, A. J. Iovino, D. Kantzas +1
We use the proton spectrum resolved by LHAASO across the knee to test superheavy dark matter in the nucleon channel at PeV energies. Both the hardening at PeV and the knee a…
GUEST: Gravitational Universe Exploration with Satellite Tracking. A passive satellite laser-ranging mission for the dark gravitational Universe
Diego Blas, Aurélien Hees, F. Javier Atapuerca +78
GUEST is a space mission concept whose central objective is the detection of gravitational waves (GWs) in the microhertz band -- a physics-rich frequency window that no other prese…
Memoirs of the curvaton: non-perturbative non-Gaussianity and supermassive primordial black holes
S. Allegrini, A. J. Iovino, G. Perna +1
The curvaton provides a simple mechanism for generating strongly non-Gaussian curvature perturbations after inflation, with potentially important consequences on small scales. We s…
Running into tension: primordial black holes from ultra-slow-roll inflation, spectral running, and the Hubble tension
Miguel A. Sabogal, Antonio J. Iovino, Sunny Vagnozzi
Single-field ultra-slow-roll (USR) inflation is among the most studied mechanisms for primordial black hole (PBH) formation. When a non-stationary inflection point close to CMB sca…
Hunting Dark Matter with the Einstein Telescope
A. J. Iovino, M. Maggiore, N. Muttoni +1
Too light primordial black holes evaporate and are therefore strongly constrained by various bounds, e.g. Cosmic Microwave Background distortion. However, if they are formed strong…
Black Hole Mergers as the Fastest Photon Ring Scramblers
D. Giataganas, G. F. Giudice, A. Ianniccari +5
Black holes are the most efficient scramblers in nature. By mapping the instantaneous mass and angular momentum of two spinless black holes in a quasi-circular binary onto those of…
The Dark Side of the Moon: Listening to Scalar-Induced Gravitational Waves
D. Blas, J. W. Foster, Y. Gouttenoire +4
The collapse of large-amplitude primordial curvature perturbations into planetary-mass primordial black holes generates a scalar-induced gravitational wave background in the Hz…
Primordial black holes: constraints, potential evidence and prospects
Bernard Carr, Antonio J. Iovino, Gabriele Perna +2
Primordial black holes (PBHs) may have formed in the early Universe and may account for all or part of the dark matter. In this review, we summarize the current observational const…
Are Primordial Black Holes Truly Fine-Tuned?
A. J. Iovino, A. Riotto
Single-field inflationary models which generate primordial black holes through the enhancement of the curvature primordial power at small scales are commonly criticized and frequen…
The impact of non-Gaussianity when searching for Primordial Black Holes with LISA
Antonio Junior Iovino, Gabriele Perna, Hardi Veermäe
LISA can observe cosmological millihertz (mHz) gravitational wave (GW) backgrounds that may offer a decisive test for asteroid-mass primordial black hole (PBH) dark matter (DM). In…
Beware of the running when producing heavy primordial black holes
Sasha Allegrini, Antonio J. Iovino, Hardi Veermäe
We examine single-field inflationary models for the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs). By analyzing the latest observations from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT)~\cit…
Understanding the Nature of Scalar-Induced Gravitational Waves
A. J. Iovino, G. Perna, D. Perrone +2
We offer a physical interpretation of the origin of the scalar-induced gravitational wave background, showing that it is mainly produced around the peaks of the scalar perturbation…
Closing the Mass Window for Stupendously Large Black Holes
Christopher Gerlach, Yann Gouttenoire, Antonio J. Iovino +1
We show that primordial black holes (PBHs) in the mass range () produce isocurvature perturbations exceeding cu…
Primordial black hole ringdown: The irreducible stochastic gravitational wave background
Valerio De Luca, Antonio J. Iovino, Antonio Riotto
Independently from the formation mechanism of primordial black holes in the early Universe, their generation is accompanied by a ringdown phase during which they relax to a station…
From new physics to a running power law and back again: Minimal refitting techniques for the reconstruction of the gravitational-wave background signal in pulsar timing array data
David Esmyol, Antonio J. Iovino, Kai Schmitz
Pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations recently presented evidence for a gravitational-wave background (GWB) signal at nanohertz frequencies. In this paper, we introduce new refi…
Fractional attractors in light of the latest ACT observations
Christian Dioguardi, Antonio J. Iovino, Antonio Racioppi
In light of the latest results from ACT observations we review a class of potentials labeled as fractional attractors, that can originate from Palatini gravity. We show that, for c…
The Irrelevance of Primordial Black Hole Clustering in the LVK mass range
F. Crescimbeni, V. Desjacques, G. Franciolini +6
We show that in realistic models where primordial black holes are formed due to the collapse of sizeable inflationary perturbations, their initial spatial clustering beyond Poisson…
Cosmic Whispers of the Early Universe: Gravitational Waves and Dark Matter from Primordial Black Holes
Antonio Junior Iovino
Various mechanisms have been suggested for the formation of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs), and this thesis focuses on the standard mechanism based on the critical collapse of cosmo…
Terrestrial Very-Long-Baseline Atom Interferometry: Summary of the Second Workshop
Adam Abdalla, Mahiro Abe, Sven Abend +307
This summary of the second Terrestrial Very-Long-Baseline Atom Interferometry (TVLBAI) Workshop provides a comprehensive overview of our meeting held in London in April 2024, build…
How Well Do We Know the Scalar-Induced Gravitational Waves?
A. J. Iovino, S. Matarrese, G. Perna +2
Gravitational waves sourced by amplified scalar perturbations are a common prediction across a wide range of cosmological models. These scalar curvature fluctuations are inherently…
Is the formation of primordial black holes from single-field inflation compatible with standard cosmology?
Sasha Allegrini, Loris Del Grosso, Antonio J. Iovino +1
In this work, we investigate the generation of primordial black holes (PBHs) within the framework of single-field inflationary models and their compatibility with the cosmological…
Deciphering the Instability of the Black Hole Ringdown Quasinormal Spectrum
A. Ianniccari, A. J. Iovino, A. Kehagias +4
The spectrum of the quasinormal modes of the gravitational waves emitted during the ringdown phase following the merger of two black holes is of primary importance in gravitational…
Curbing PBHs with PTAs
A. J. Iovino, G. Perna, A. Riotto +1
Sizeable primordial curvature perturbations needed to seed a population of primordial black holes (PBHs) will be accompanied by a scalar-induced gravitational wave signal that can…
Constraints on primordial black holes from LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA O3 events
M. Andrés-Carcasona, A. J. Iovino, V. Vaskonen +4
Primordial black holes (PBH) can efficiently form black hole binaries in the early universe. We update the resulting constraints on PBH abundance using data from the third observat…