Mr Andrew Gow
Summary
I am a Research Fellow in the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, working with Professor David Wands. My research focuses on stochastic inflation, and its relation to the formation of compact objects such as primordial black holes.
I graduated from the University of Sussex with an MPhys in 2017, where I remained to do a PhD entitled "A history of the universe in primordial black holes" with Dr Christian Byrnes, which I completed in 2021.
Research outputs
2025
Stochastic inflation beyond slow roll: noise modelling and importance sampling
Jackson, J. H. P., Assadullahi, H., Gow, A. D., Koyama, K., Vennin, V., Wands, D.
24 Apr 2025, In: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2025, 04, 30p., 073
Research output: Article
2024
The separate-universe approach and sudden transitions during inflation
Jackson, J. H. P., Assadullahi, H., Gow, A. D., Koyama, K., Vennin, V., Wands, D.
9 May 2024, In: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2024, 5, 35p., 053
Research output: Article
Smooth vs instant inflationary transitions: steepest growth re-examined and primordial black holes
Cole, P. S., Gow, A. D., Byrnes, C. T., Patil, S. P.
2 May 2024, In: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2024, 05, 19p., 022
Research output: Article
2023
Primordial black holes from a curvaton scenario with strongly non-Gaussian perturbations
Gow, A. D., Miranda, T., Nurmi, S.
6 Nov 2023, In: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2023, 11, 21p., 006
Research output: Article
Primordial black holes from single-field inflation: a fine-tuning audit
Cole, P. S., Gow, A. D., Byrnes, C. T., Patil, S. P.
14 Aug 2023, In: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2023, 08, 27p., 031
Research output: Article
Non-perturbative non-Gaussianity and primordial black holes
Gow, A. D., Assadullahi, H., Jackson, J. H. P., Koyama, K., Vennin, V., Wands, D.
30 May 2023, In: Europhysics Letters. 142, 4, 7p., 49001
Research output: Article
2022
Accurate model for the primordial black hole mass distribution from a peak in the power spectrum
Gow, A. D., Byrnes, C. T., Hall, A.
5 Jan 2022, In: Physical Review D. 105, 2, 10p., 023503
Research output: Article
2021
The power spectrum on small scales: robust constraints and comparing PBH methodologies
Gow, A. D., Byrnes, C. T., Cole, P. S., Young, S.
2 Feb 2021, In: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2021, 02, 31p., 002
Research output: Article
2020
Bayesian analysis of LIGO-Virgo mergers: Primordial versus astrophysical black hole populations
Hall, A., Gow, A. D., Byrnes, C. T.
11 Dec 2020, In: Physical Review D. 102, 12, 33p., 123524
Research output: Article
Primordial black hole merger rates: distributions for multiple LIGO observables
Gow, A. D., Byrnes, C. T., Hall, A., Peacock, J. A.
13 Jan 2020, In: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2020, 01, 30p., 031
Research output: Article