Probing high frequency gravitational waves with pulsars
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2023-05-24 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We study graviton-photon conversion in magnetosphere of a pulsar and explore the possibility of detecting high frequency gravitational waves with pulsar observations. It is shown that conversion of one polarization mode of photons can be enhanced significantly due to strong magnetic fields around a pulsar. We also constrain stochastic gravitational waves in frequency range of Hz and Hz by using data of observations of the Crab pulsar and the Geminga pulsar. Our method widely fills the gap among existing high frequency gravitational wave experiments and boosts the frequency frontier in gravitational wave observations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2305.13984,
title = {Probing high frequency gravitational waves with pulsars},
author = {Asuka Ito and Kazunori Kohri and Kazunori Nakayama},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.13984},
year = {2023}
}
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7 pages, 2 figures