Koichiro Uehara, Albert Escrivà, Tomohiro Harada, Daiki Saito and Chul-Moon Yoo
{"title":"Primordial black hole formation from a type II perturbation in the absence and presence of pressure","authors":"Koichiro Uehara, Albert Escrivà, Tomohiro Harada, Daiki Saito and Chul-Moon Yoo","doi":"10.1088/1475-7516/2025/08/042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2025/08/042","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate primordial black holes (PBHs) formed from extremely large amplitudes of primordial curvature fluctuations, classified as type II. Type II fluctuations differ from type I by the presence of a stationary point on the initial time slice, when we see the areal radius as a function of the radial coordinate. Starting from these type II perturbations to form black holes, the nonlinear evolution governed by the Einstein equations generally results in two distinct types, A and B, of horizon configurations, respectively characterized by the absence and presence of a bifurcating trapping horizon where past and future trapping horizons meet. In this paper, we use the Lemaître-Tolman-Bondi solution to show that type I/II and type A/B classifications are equivalent for a spherically symmetric dust fluid system, regardless of the fluctuation profile. However, this equivalence does not generally hold in the presence of pressure.","PeriodicalId":15445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144840240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Precessions of spherical orbits in the rotating Melvin black hole spacetime and its constraints from the jet of M87*","authors":"Chengjia Chen, Qiyuan Pan and Jiliang Jing","doi":"10.1088/1475-7516/2025/08/043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2025/08/043","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate the precessions of spherical orbits of timelike particles in the background of a rotating black hole immersed in the Melvin magnetic field, and probe the effects of the magnetic field on the precession period. Our results show that the effects of the magnetic field on the particles' motions gradually decrease with the increase of the titled angle and finally vanish as the titled angle tends to π/2. With the increase of the magnetic field parameter, we find that the precession becomes rapid. Modelling the spherical orbit to the warp radius in the accretion disk and using the observed precession period from the jet of M87*, we analyze the allowed regions of the black hole parameters and the warp radius in the accretion disk. Especially, we find a novel degenerated phenomenon of precession periods arising from the magnetic field for two different spherical orbits, which does not appear in the usual Kerr black hole case. Moreover, we also discuss the possibility of observing effects of the magnetic field on the precession periods of jets for astrophysical black holes. Our study could help to further understand the rotating Melvin black hole and the relationship between magnetic fields and precessions of jets.","PeriodicalId":15445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144840060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Geodesics and global properties of the Liouville solution in general relativity with a scalar field","authors":"D.E. Afanasev and M.O. Katanaev","doi":"10.1088/1475-7516/2025/08/045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2025/08/045","url":null,"abstract":"One parameter family of exact solutions in General Relativity with a scalar field has been found using the Liouville metric. The scalar field potential has exponential form. The solution corresponding to the naked singularity provides smooth extension of the Friedmann Universe with accelerated expansion through the zero of the scale factor back in time. All geodesics are found explicitly. Their analysis shows that the Liouville solution is a global one: every geodesic is either continued to infinite value of the canonical parameter in both directions or ends up at the singularity at its finite value. Moreover, analysis of geodesics shows that the naked singularity located outside the Friedmann Universe attracts matter and therefore provides its accelerating expansion inside the light cone.","PeriodicalId":15445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144840239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gravitational waves from the E-model inflation with Gauss-Bonnet correction","authors":"Tie-Jun Gao and Jian-Xia Guo","doi":"10.1088/1475-7516/2025/08/036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2025/08/036","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, we study the generation of gravitational waves in the E-model inflation with the scalar field non-minimally coupled to the Gauss-Bonnet term. Considering a wall-crossing behavior in the moduli space, we parameterize the coupling coefficient ξ as a step-like function, then if V,ϕξ,ϕ > 0, the Gauss-Bonnet term dominate the inflation dynamics, causing a short rapid-decline phase of the inflaton, and for appropriate parameter spaces, the mode equation of tensor perturbations develops a transient growing solution. This process generates a peak in the tensor perturbation power spectrum, corresponding to a peak in the gravitational wave energy spectrum around the nanohertz frequency band. Further more, we investigate the feasibility of generating double peaks in the gravitational wave spectrum using a double-step coupling, For certain parameter choices, one peak lies near nanohertz frequencies, while the other is around millihertz frequencies. Consequently, these gravitational waves can be observed by the pulsar timing array and the space-based gravitational wave detectors such as LISA, simultaneously.","PeriodicalId":15445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144825100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Angel Rincon, Sharmanthie Fernando, Grigoris Panotopoulos and Leonardo Balart
{"title":"Quasinormal modes and absorption cross-section of a Bardeen black hole surrounded by perfect fluid dark matter in four dimensions","authors":"Angel Rincon, Sharmanthie Fernando, Grigoris Panotopoulos and Leonardo Balart","doi":"10.1088/1475-7516/2025/08/035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2025/08/035","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we study quasinormal modes and absorption cross sections for the (1+3)-dimensional Bardeen black hole surrounded by perfect fluid dark matter. Studies of the massless scalar field is already done in [1]. Hence, in this paper we will focus on the massive scalar field perturbations and massless Dirac field perturbations. To compute the quasinormal modes we use the semi-analytical 3rd-order WKB method, which has been shown to be one of the best approaches when the effective potential is adequate and when n < ℓ and n < λ. We have also utilized the Pöschl-Teller method to compare the valus obtained using the WKB approach. We have computed quasinormal frequencies by varying various parameters of the theory such as the mass of the scalar field μ, dark matter parameter α and the magnetic charge g. We have summarized our solutions in tables and figures for clarity. As for the absorption cross section, we used third order WKB approach to compute reflection, transmission coefficients and partial absorption cross sections. Graphs are presented to demonstrate the behavior of the above quantities when the dark matter parameter and mass of the massive scalar field are varied.","PeriodicalId":15445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144825027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Phenomenology of neutrino-dark matter interaction in DSNB and AGN","authors":"Po-Yan Tseng and Yu-Min Yeh","doi":"10.1088/1475-7516/2025/08/038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2025/08/038","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate a neutrino-scalar dark matter (DM) νϕ interaction encountering distinctive neutrino sources, namely Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background (DSNB) and Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). The interaction is mediated by a fermionic particle F, in which the νϕ scattering cross section characterizes different energy dependent with respect to the kinematic regions, and manifests itself through the attenuation of neutrino fluxes from these sources. We model the unscattered neutrino flux from DSNB via core-collapse supernova (CCSN) and star-formation rate (SFR), then incorporate the present Super-Kamionkande and future DUNE/Hyper-Kamiokande experiments to set limits on DM-neutrino interaction. For AGNs, NGC 1068 and TXS 0506+056, where the neutrino carries energy above TeV, we select the kinematic region m2F ≫ Eνmϕ ≫ m2ϕ such that the νϕ scattering cross section features an enhancement at high energy. Furthermore, taking into account the DM spike profile at the center of AGN, we constrain on mϕ and scattering cross section via computing the neutrino flux at IceCube, where the ϕϕ* annihilation cross section is implemented to determine the saturation density of the spikes. Notice that the later results heavily rely on the existence of DM spike at the center of AGN, otherwise, our results may alter.","PeriodicalId":15445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144825105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marcos A.G. Garcia, Wenqi Ke, Yann Mambrini, Keith A. Olive and Sarunas Verner
{"title":"Scalar field fluctuations and the production of dark matter","authors":"Marcos A.G. Garcia, Wenqi Ke, Yann Mambrini, Keith A. Olive and Sarunas Verner","doi":"10.1088/1475-7516/2025/08/039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2025/08/039","url":null,"abstract":"One of the simplest possible candidates for dark matter is a stable scalar singlet beyond the Standard Model. If its mass is below the Hubble scale during inflation, long-wavelength modes of this scalar will be excited during inflation, and their subsequent evolution may lead to the correct relic density of dark matter. In this work, we provide a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of a spectator scalar. We examine three cases: (1) a non-interacting massive scalar, (2) a massive scalar with self-interactions of the form λχχp, and (3) a massive scalar coupled to the inflaton ϕ through an interaction term of the form σn,mϕnχm. In all cases, we assume minimal coupling to gravity and compare these results with the production of short-wavelength modes arising from single graviton exchange. The evolution is tracked during the reheating phase. Our findings are summarized using (mχ, TRH) parameter planes, where mχ is the mass of the scalar field and TRH is the reheating temperature after inflation. The non-interacting scalar is highly constrained, requiring mχ > 3 × 1012 GeV and TRH ≲ 7 TeV (in the absence of fine-tuning) for an inflationary potential with a quadratic minimum. However, when self-interactions or couplings to the inflaton are included, the viable parameter space expands considerably. In these cases, sub-GeV and even sub-eV scalar masses can yield the correct relic abundance, opening new possibilities for light dark matter candidates. In all cases, we also impose additional constraints arising from the production of isocurvature fluctuations, the prevention of a secondary inflationary phase triggered by the spectator field, and the fragmentation of scalar condensates.","PeriodicalId":15445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144825102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Estimating the gravitational wave background anisotropy: a Bayesian approach boosted by cross-correlation angular power spectrum","authors":"Chi Tian, Ran Ding and Xiao-Xiao Kou","doi":"10.1088/1475-7516/2025/08/037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2025/08/037","url":null,"abstract":"We introduce a new method designed for Bayesian inference of the angular power spectrum of the Gravitational Wave Background (GWB) anisotropy. This scheme works with detector data and can optionally incorporate the cross-correlations between the GWB anisotropy and other cosmological tracers, enhancing the significance of Bayesian inference. We employ the realistic LISA response and noise model to demonstrate the validity of this approach. The findings indicate that, for the injected cosmological GWB signal, without considering any cross-correlations, the 4-year LISA data is insufficient to achieve a significant detection of multipoles. However, if the anisotropies in the GWB are strongly correlated with the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the 4-year data can provide unbiased estimates of the quadrupole moment (ℓ = 2). This reconstruction process is generic and not restricted to any specific detector, offering a new framework for extracting anisotropies in the GWB data from various current and future gravitational wave observatories.","PeriodicalId":15445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144825104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Murali M. Saravanan, Thejs Brinckmann, Marilena Loverde and Zachary J. Weiner
{"title":"Abundance and properties of dark radiation from the cosmic microwave background","authors":"Murali M. Saravanan, Thejs Brinckmann, Marilena Loverde and Zachary J. Weiner","doi":"10.1088/1475-7516/2025/08/040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2025/08/040","url":null,"abstract":"We study the cosmological signatures of new light relics that are collisionless like standard neutrinos or are strongly interacting. We provide a simple and succinct rephrasing of their physical effects in the cosmic microwave background, as well as the resulting parameter degeneracies with other cosmological parameters, in terms of the total radiation abundance and the fraction thereof that freely streams. In these more general terms, interacting and noninteracting light relics are differentiated by their respective decrease and increase of the free-streaming fraction, and, moreover, the scale-dependent interplay thereof with a common, correlated reduction of the fraction of matter in baryons. We then derive updated constraints on various dark-radiation scenarios with the latest cosmological observations, employing this language to identify the physical origin of the impact of each dataset. The “PR4” reanalyses of Planck CMB data prefer a larger primordial helium yield and therefore also slightly more radiation than the 2018 analysis; we investigate the differences between the two releases that drives these shifts. Smaller free-streaming fractions are disfavored by the excess lensing of the CMB measured in lensing reconstruction data from Planck and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope. On the other hand, baryon acoustic oscillation measurements from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument drive marginal detections of new, strongly interacting light relics due to that data's preference for lower matter fractions. Finally, we forecast measurements from the CMB-S4 experiment.","PeriodicalId":15445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144825111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cosmic neutrino background detection in the minimally extended Standard Model","authors":"Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez and Jack D. Shergold","doi":"10.1088/1475-7516/2025/08/033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2025/08/033","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate the sensitivity of relic neutrino detection methods within the Standard Model, extended to include right-chiral neutrino singlets with Majorana mass terms. In particular, we study neutrino capture on unstable nuclei, the Stodolsky effect, coherent scattering, and an accelerator experiment. We demonstrate that the sensitivity transitions smoothly between Dirac and Majorana regimes, depending on the scale of lepton number violation. Importantly, neutral current interactions lead to transitions between the light and heavy neutrino states, necessitating the use of a density matrix formalism for accurate sensitivity calculations. As the oldest source of neutrinos in the universe, relic neutrinos would be able to provide an ultimate constraint on the lepton number violating scale, mR ≳ 10-33 eV, below which neutrinos would behave as Dirac fermions for all practical purposes.","PeriodicalId":15445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144825026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}