10 papers
CMB Constraints on Pre-Inflationary Axion Dark Matter Isocurvature
Catherine Petretti, Praniti Singh, Matteo Braglia +3
Although measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) are consistent with a nearly scale-invariant primordial spectrum of adiabatic perturbations, in which the energy dens…
Search for continuous gravitational waves from known pulsars in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1816
Continuous gravitational waves (CWs) emission from neutron stars carries information about their internal structure and equation of state, and it can provide tests of General Relat…
Exotic Dark Matter and the DESI Anomaly
Matteo Braglia, Xingang Chen, Abraham Loeb
Exotic dark matter (EDM) refers to a dark matter species whose equation of state deviates from zero at late times. This behavior enables it to model a variety of non-standard late-…
What it takes to solve the Hubble tension through scale-dependent modifications of the primordial power spectrum
Nanoom Lee, Matteo Braglia, Yacine Ali-Haïmoud
We investigate scale-dependent modifications to the primordial scalar power spectrum as potential solutions to the Hubble tension. We use the Fisher-bias formalism, recently adapte…
Investigating the Origin of CMB Large-Scale Features Using LiteBIRD and CMB-S4
Catherine Petretti, Matteo Braglia, Xingang Chen +2
Several missions following Planck are currently under development, which will provide high-precision measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies. Specificall…
Reconstructing Primordial Curvature Perturbations via Scalar-Induced Gravitational Waves with LISA
Jonas El Gammal, Aya Ghaleb, Gabriele Franciolini +17
Many early universe scenarios predict an enhancement of scalar perturbations at scales currently unconstrained by cosmological probes. These perturbations source gravitational wave…