About
Professor Gianmassimo Tasinato is a member of the Physics Department at Swansea University.
Professor Gianmassimo Tasinato
Professor,
Physics
Available For Postgraduate Supervision
Research Links
Areas Of Expertise
- Theoretical Cosmology
Publications
Research Highlights
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Malhotra, A., Dimastrogiovanni, E., Domènech, G., Fasiello, M., & Tasinato, G. (n.d.) New universal property of cosmological gravitational wave anisotropies. Physical Review D, 107(10)
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Ozsoy, O. & Tasinato, G. (2023). Inflation and Primordial Black Holes. Universe, 9(5), 203
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Tasinato, G. (2023). Large |η| approach to single field inflation. Physical Review D, 108(4)
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Auclair, P., Bacon, D., Baker, T., Barreiro, T., Bartolo, N., Belgacem, E., Bellomo, N., Ben-Dayan, I., Bertacca, D., Besancon, M., Blanco-Pillado, J., Blas, D., Boileau, G., Calcagni, G., Caldwell, R., Caprini, C., Carbone, C., Chang, C., Chen, H...., & Group), . (2023). Cosmology with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna. Living Reviews in Relativity, 26(1)
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Chowdhury, D., Tasinato, G., & Zavala Carrasco, I. (2023). Response of the Einstein Telescope to Doppler anisotropies. Physical Review D, 107(8)
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Bartolo, N., Bertacca, D., Caldwell, R., Contaldi, C., Cusin, G., Luca, V., Dimastrogiovanni, E., Fasiello, M., Figueroa, D., Franciolini, G., Jenkins, A., Peloso, M., Pieroni, M., Renzini, A., Ricciardone, A., Riotto, A., Sakellariadou, M., Sorbo, L., Tasinato, G...., & Kuroyanagi, S. (2022). Probing anisotropies of the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background with LISA. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2022(11), 009
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Dimastrogiovanni, E., Fasiello, M., Malhotra, A., & Tasinato, G. (2023). Enhancing gravitational wave anisotropies with peaked scalar sources. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2023(01), 018
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Baker, T., Barausse, E., Chen, A., Rham, C., Pieroni, M., & Tasinato, G. (2023). Testing gravitational wave propagation with multiband detections. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2023(03), 044
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Tasinato, G. (2021). Primordial Gravitational Waves. Handbook of Gravitational Wave AstronomySpringer
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Tasinato, G. (2022). Ultracompact vector stars. Physical Review D, 106(4)
All Research
Journal Articles
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Auclair, P., Bacon, D., Baker, T., Barreiro, T., Bartolo, N., Belgacem, E., Bellomo, N., Ben-Dayan, I., Bertacca, D., Besancon, M., Blanco-Pillado, J., Blas, D., Boileau, G., Calcagni, G., Caldwell, R., Caprini, C., Carbone, C., Chang, C., Chen, H...., & Group), . (2023). Cosmology with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna. Living Reviews in Relativity, 26(1)
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Tasinato, G. (2023). Large |η| approach to single field inflation. Physical Review D, 108(4)
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Ozsoy, O. & Tasinato, G. (2023). Inflation and Primordial Black Holes. Universe, 9(5), 203
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Chowdhury, D., Tasinato, G., & Zavala Carrasco, I. (2023). Response of the Einstein Telescope to Doppler anisotropies. Physical Review D, 107(8)
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Baker, T., Barausse, E., Chen, A., Rham, C., Pieroni, M., & Tasinato, G. (2023). Testing gravitational wave propagation with multiband detections. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2023(03), 044
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Dimastrogiovanni, E., Fasiello, M., Malhotra, A., & Tasinato, G. (2023). Enhancing gravitational wave anisotropies with peaked scalar sources. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2023(01), 018
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Bartolo, N., Bertacca, D., Caldwell, R., Contaldi, C., Cusin, G., Luca, V., Dimastrogiovanni, E., Fasiello, M., Figueroa, D., Franciolini, G., Jenkins, A., Peloso, M., Pieroni, M., Renzini, A., Ricciardone, A., Riotto, A., Sakellariadou, M., Sorbo, L., Tasinato, G...., & Kuroyanagi, S. (2022). Probing anisotropies of the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background with LISA. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2022(11), 009
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Cusin, G. & Tasinato, G. (2022). Doppler boosting the stochastic gravitational wave background. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2022(08), 036
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Baker, T., Calcagni, G., Chen, A., Fasiello, M., Lombriser, L., Martinovic, K., Pieroni, M., Sakellariadou, M., Tasinato, G., Bertacca, D., & Saltas, I. (2022). Measuring the propagation speed of gravitational waves with LISA. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2022(08), 031
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Tasinato, G. (2022). Ultracompact vector stars. Physical Review D, 106(4)
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Chowdhury, D., Tasinato, G., & Zavala Carrasco, I. (2022). The rise of the primordial tensor spectrum from an early scalar-tensor epoch. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2022(08), 010
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Arun, K., Belgacem, E., Benkel, R., Bernard, L., Berti, E., Bertone, G., Besancon, M., Blas, D., Böhmer, C., Brito, R., Calcagni, G., Cardenas-Avendaño, A., Clough, K., Crisostomi, M., Luca, V., Doneva, D., Escoffier, S., Ezquiaga, J., Ferreira, P...., & Zumalacárregui, M. (2022). New horizons for fundamental physics with LISA. Living Reviews in Relativity, 25(1)
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Tasinato, G. (2022). Gravitational wave nonlinearities and pulsar-timing array angular correlations. Physical Review D, 105(8)
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Özsoy, O. & Tasinato, G. (2022). Consistency conditions and primordial black holes in single field inflation. Physical Review D, 105(2)
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Tasinato, G. (2022). Stochastic approach to gravitational waves from inflation. Physical Review D, 105(2)
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Ozsoy, O. & Tasinato, G. (2021). CMB μT cross correlations as a probe of primordial black hole scenarios. Physical Review D, 104(4)
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Tasinato, G., Garoffolo, A., Bertacca, D., & Matarrese, S. (2021). Gravitational-wave cosmological distances in scalar-tensor theories of gravity. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2021(06), 050
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Baker, J., Baker, T., Carbone, C., Congedo, G., Contaldi, C., Dvorkin, I., Gair, J., Haiman, Z., Mota, D., Renzini, A., Buis, E., Cusin, G., Ezquiaga, J., Mueller, G., Pieroni, M., Quenby, J., Ricciardone, A., Saltas, I., Shao, L...., & Zumalacárregui, M. (2021). High angular resolution gravitational wave astronomy. Experimental Astronomy, 51(3), 1441-1470.
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Garoffolo, A., Raveri, M., Silvestri, A., Tasinato, G., Carbone, C., Bertacca, D., & Matarrese, S. (2021). Detecting dark energy fluctuations with gravitational waves. Physical Review D, 103(8)
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Tasinato, G. (2021). Analytic approach to non-slow-roll inflation. Physical Review D, 103(2)
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Adshead, P., Afshordi, N., Dimastrogiovanni, E., Fasiello, M., Lim, E., & Tasinato, G. (2021). Multimessenger cosmology: Correlating cosmic microwave background and stochastic gravitational wave background measurements. Physical Review D, 103(2)
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Zavala Carrasco, I., Holland, J., Zavala, I., & Tasinato, G. (2020). On chromonatural inflation in string theory. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2020(12), 026-026.
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Garoffolo, A., Tasinato, G., Carbone, C., Bertacca, D., & Matarrese, S. (2020). Gravitational waves and geometrical optics in scalar-tensor theories. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2020(11), 040-040.
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Tasinato, G. (2020). Symmetries for scalarless scalar theories. Physical Review D, 102(8)
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Barausse, E., Berti, E., Hertog, T., Hughes, S., Jetzer, P., Pani, P., Sotiriou, T., Tamanini, N., Witek, H., Yagi, K., Yunes, N., Abdelsalhin, T., Achucarro, A., Aelst, K., Afshordi, N., Akcay, S., Annulli, L., Arun, K., Ayuso, I...., & Tasinato, G. (2020). Prospects for fundamental physics with LISA. General Relativity and Gravitation, 52(8)
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Contaldi, C., Pieroni, M., Renzini, A., Cusin, G., Karnesis, N., Peloso, M., Ricciardone, A., Tasinato, G., & Group), . (2020). Maximum likelihood map making with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna. Physical Review D, 102(4)
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Bartolo, N., Bertacca, D., Matarrese, S., Peloso, M., Ricciardone, A., Riotto, A., & Tasinato, G. (2020). Characterizing the cosmological gravitational wave background: Anisotropies and non-Gaussianity. Physical Review D, 102(2)
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Domcke, V., García-Bellido, J., Peloso, M., Pieroni, M., Ricciardone, A., Sorbo, L., & Tasinato, G. (2020). Measuring the net circular polarization of the stochastic gravitational wave background with interferometers. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2020(05), 028-028.
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Ozsoy, O. & Tasinato, G. (2020). On the slope of the curvature power spectrum in non-attractor inflation. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2020(04), 048-048.
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Bartolo, N., Bertacca, D., Luca, V., Franciolini, G., Matarrese, S., Peloso, M., Ricciardone, A., Riotto, A., & Tasinato, G. (2020). Gravitational wave anisotropies from primordial black holes. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2020(02), 028-028.
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Dimastrogiovanni, E., Fasiello, M., & Tasinato, G. (2020). Searching for Fossil Fields in the Gravity Sector. Physical Review Letters, 124(6)
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Powell, C. & Tasinato, G. (2020). Probing a stationary non-Gaussian background of stochastic gravitational waves with pulsar timing arrays. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2020(01), 017-017.
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Chagoya, J. & Tasinato, G. (2019). A new scalar–tensor realization of Hořava–Lifshitz gravity. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 36(7), 075014
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Olguín-Trejo, Y., Parameswaran, S., Tasinato, G., Zavala, I., & Zavala Carrasco, I. (2019). Runaway quintessence, out of the swampland. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2019(01), 031-031.
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Bartolo, N., Bertacca, D., Matarrese, S., Peloso, M., Ricciardone, A., Riotto, A., & Tasinato, G. (2019). Anisotropies and non-Gaussianity of the cosmological gravitational wave background. Physical Review D, 100(12), 121501-1-121501-7.
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Caprini, C., Figueroa, D., Flauger, R., Nardini, G., Peloso, M., Pieroni, M., Ricciardone, A., & Tasinato, G. (2019). Reconstructing the spectral shape of a stochastic gravitational wave background with LISA. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2019(11), 017-017.
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Calcagni, G., Kuroyanagi, S., Marsat, S., Sakellariadou, M., Tamanini, N., & Tasinato, G. (2019). Gravitational-wave luminosity distance in quantum gravity. Physics Letters B, 798, 135000
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Filippini, F. & Tasinato, G. (2019). On long range axion hairs for black holes. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 36(21), 215015
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Calcagni, G., Kuroyanagi, S., Marsat, S., Sakellariadou, M., Tamanini, N., & Tasinato, G. (2019). Quantum gravity and gravitational-wave astronomy. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2019(10), 012-012.
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Ozsoy, O., Mylova, M., Parameswaran, S., Powell, c., Tasinato, G., & Zavala Carrasco, I. (2019). Squeezed tensor non-Gaussianity in non-attractor inflation. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2019(09), 036-036.
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Belgacem, E., Calcagni, G., Crisostomi, M., Dalang, C., Dirian, Y., Ezquiaga, J., Fasiello, M., Foffa, S., Ganz, A., García-Bellido, J., Lombriser, L., Maggiore, M., Tamanini, N., Tasinato, G., Zumalacárregui, M., Barausse, E., Bartolo, N., Bertacca, D., Klein, A...., & Sakellariadou, M. (2019). Testing modified gravity at cosmological distances with LISA standard sirens. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2019(07), 024-024.
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Dimastrogiovanni, E., Fasiello, M., Tasinato, G., & Wands, D. (2019). Tensor non-gaussianities from non-minimal coupling to the inflaton. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2019(02), 008-008.
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Mylova, M., Özsoy, O., Parameswaran, S., Tasinato, G., Zavala, I., & Zavala Carrasco, I. (2018). A new mechanism to enhance primordial tensor fluctuations in single field inflation. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2018(12), 024-024.
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Bartolo, N., Domcke, V., Figueroa, D., Garcia-Bellido, J., Peloso, M., Pieroni, M., Ricciardone, A., Sakellariadou, M., Sorbo, L., & Tasinato, G. (2018). Probing non-Gaussian stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds with LISA. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2018(11), 034-034.
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Chagoya, J. & Tasinato, G. (2018). Compact objects in scalar-tensor theories after GW170817. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2018(08), 006-006.
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Dimastrogiovanni, E., Fasiello, M., & Tasinato, G. (2018). Probing the inflationary particle content: extra spin-2 field. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2018(08), 016-016.
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Özsoy, O., Parameswaran, S., Tasinato, G., Zavala, I., & Zavala Carrasco, I. (2018). Mechanisms for primordial black hole production in string theory. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2018(07), 005-005.
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Finelli, F., Bucher, M., Achúcarro, A., Ballardini, M., Bartolo, N., Baumann, D., Clesse, S., Errard, J., Handley, W., Hindmarsh, M., Kiiveri, K., Kunz, M., Lasenby, A., Liguori, M., Paoletti, D., Ringeval, C., Väliviita, J., Tent, B., Vennin, V...., & Zannoni, M. (2018). Exploring cosmic origins with CORE: Inflation. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2018(04), 016-016.
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Delabrouille, J., de Bernardis, P., Bouchet, F., Achúcarro, A., Ade, P., Allison, R., Arroja, F., Artal, E., Ashdown, M., Baccigalupi, C., Ballardini, M., Banday, A., Banerji, R., Barbosa, D., Bartlett, J., Bartolo, N., Basak, S., Baselmans, J., Basu, K...., & Tasinato, G. (2018). Exploring cosmic origins with CORE: Survey requirements and mission design. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2018(04), 014-014.
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Ricciardone, A. & Tasinato, G. (2018). Anisotropic tensor power spectrum at interferometer scales induced by tensor squeezed non-Gaussianity. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2018(02), 011-011.
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Chagoya, J. & Tasinato, G. (2018). Stealth configurations in vector-tensor theories of gravity. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2018(01), 046-046.
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Filippini, F. & Tasinato, G. (2018). An exact solution for a rotating black hole in modified gravity. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2018(01), 033-033.
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Chagoya, J., Niz, G., & Tasinato, G. (2017). Black holes and neutron stars in vector Galileons. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 34(16), 165002
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Ricciardone, A. & Tasinato, G. (2017). Primordial gravitational waves in supersolid inflation. Physical Review D, 96(2)
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Chagoya, J. & Tasinato, G. (2017). A geometrical approach to degenerate scalar-tensor theories. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017(2)
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Chagoya, J. & Tasinato, G. (2016). Galileon Higgs vortices. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016(2)
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Burgess, C., Holman, R., Tasinato, G., & Tasinato, G. (2016). Open EFTs, IR effects & late-time resummations: systematic corrections in stochastic inflation. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016(1)
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Crisostomi, M., Hull, M., Koyama, K., & Tasinato, G. (2016). Horndeski: beyond, or not beyond?. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2016(03), 038-038.
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Bartolo, N., Cannone, D., Ricciardone, A., & Tasinato, G. (2016). Distinctive signatures of space-time diffeomorphism breaking in EFT of inflation. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2016(03), 044-044.
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Chagoya, J., Niz, G., & Tasinato, G. (2016). Black holes and Abelian symmetry breaking. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 33(17), 175007
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Tellarini, M., Ross, A., Tasinato, G., & Wands, D. (2016). Galaxy bispectrum, primordial non-Gaussianity and redshift space distortions. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2016(06), 014-014.
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Achour, J., Crisostomi, M., Koyama, K., Langlois, D., Noui, K., Tasinato, G., & Tasinato, G. (2016). Degenerate higher order scalar-tensor theories beyond Horndeski up to cubic order. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016(12)
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Bartolo, N., Caprini, C., Domcke, V., Figueroa, D., Garcia-Bellido, J., Guzzetti, M., Liguori, M., Matarrese, S., Peloso, M., Petiteau, A., Ricciardone, A., Sakellariadou, M., Sorbo, L., & Tasinato, G. (2016). Science with the space-based interferometer LISA. IV: probing inflation with gravitational waves. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2016(12), 026-026.
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Crisostomi, M., Koyama, K., & Tasinato, G. (2016). Extended scalar-tensor theories of gravity. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2016(04), 044-044.
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Parameswaran, S., Tasinato, G., Zavala, I., & Zavala Carrasco, I. (2016). Subleading effects and the field range in axion inflation. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2016(04), 008-008.
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Cannone, D., Gong, J., & Tasinato, G. (2015). Breaking discrete symmetries in the effective field theory of inflation. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2015(08), 003-003.
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Comelli, D., Crisostomi, M., Koyama, K., Pilo, L., Tasinato, G., & Tasinato, G. (2015). New branches of massive gravity. Physical Review D, 91(12)
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Comelli, D., Crisostomi, M., Koyama, K., Pilo, L., Tasinato, G., & Tasinato, G. (2015). Cosmology of bigravity with doubly coupled matter. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2015(04), 026-026.
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Tasinato, G. (2015). A scenario for inflationary magnetogenesis without strong coupling problem. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2015(03), 040-040.
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Hull, M., Koyama, K., & Tasinato, G. (2015). A Higgs mechanism for vector Galileons. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2015(3)
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Tasinato, G., Cannone, D., & Wands, D. (2015). Generalised tensor fluctuations and inflation. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2015(01), 029
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Tellarini, M., Ross, A., Tasinato, G., & Wands, D. (2015). Non-local bias in the halo bispectrum with primordial non-Gaussianity. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2015(07), 004-004.
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Burgess, C., Holman, R., Tasinato, G., Williams, M., & Tasinato, G. (2015). EFT beyond the horizon: stochastic inflation and how primordial quantum fluctuations go classical. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2015(3)
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Tasinato, G., Tellarini, M., Ross, A., & Wands, D. (2014). Primordial non-Gaussianity in the bispectra of large-scale structure. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2014(03), 032-032.
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Peloso, M., Sorbo, L., & Tasinato, G. (2014). A falsely fat curvaton with an observable running of the spectral tilt. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2014(06), 040-040.
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Tasinato, G. (2014). A small cosmological constant from Abelian symmetry breaking. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 31(22), 225004
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Chagoya, J., Koyama, K., Niz, G., & Tasinato, G. (2014). Galileons and strong gravity. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2014(10), 055-055.
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Tasinato, G. (2014). Cosmic acceleration from Abelian symmetry breaking. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2014(4)
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Nurmi, S., Byrnes, C., & Tasinato, G. (2013). A non-Gaussian landscape. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2013(06), 004-004.
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Emery, J., Tasinato, G., & Wands, D. (2013). Mixed non-Gaussianity in multiple-DBI inflation. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2013(05), 021-021.
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Tasinato, G., Koyama, K., & Niz, G. (2013). Exact solutions in massive gravity. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 30(18), 184002
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Koyama, K., Niz, G., & Tasinato, G. (2013). Effective theory for the Vainshtein mechanism from the Horndeski action. Physical Review D, 88(2)
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Khosravi, N., Niz, G., Koyama, K., & Tasinato, G. (2013). Stability of the self-accelerating universe in massive gravity. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2013(08), 044-044.
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Byrnes, C., Nurmi, S., Tasinato, G., & Wands, D. (2013). Implications of the Planck bispectrum constraints for the primordial trispectrum. EPL (Europhysics Letters), 103(1), 19001
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Tasinato, G., Koyama, K., & Khosravi, N. (2013). The role of vector fields in modified gravity scenarios. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2013(11), 037-037.
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Tasinato, G. (2013). Conformal couplings of Galileons to other degrees of freedom. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2013(11)
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Malhotra, A., Dimastrogiovanni, E., Domènech, G., Fasiello, M., & Tasinato, G. (n.d.) New universal property of cosmological gravitational wave anisotropies. Physical Review D, 107(10)
Book Chapters
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Tasinato, G. (2021). Primordial Gravitational Waves. Handbook of Gravitational Wave AstronomySpringer
Conference Contributions
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Nardini, G., Figueroa, D., Megias, E., Pieroni, M., Quiros, M., Ricciardone, A., & Tasinato, G. (2018). LISA as a probe for particle physics: electroweak scale tests in synergy with ground-based experiments. (pp. 036Gravitational-waves Science&Technology Symposium (GRASS2018).
Supervision
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Untitled (current)
PhDOther supervisor: Dr Sarah Roberts -
Aspects of Black holes in Modified Gravity (current)
PhDOther supervisor: Prof Prem Kumar -
Classification and Segmentation of Galactic Structures in Large Multi-spectral Images (awarded 2023)
PhDOther supervisor: Prof Xianghua Xie
Taught Modules
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PH-022 Electricity and Magnetism
Introduction to basic concepts in electricity and magnetism, including electrostatics, magnetostatics, electromagnetic induction, and electrical circuits.
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PH-322 Cosmology
This module describes our current understanding of the origin, constituents and evolution of the universe, from the hot big bang to the present day.