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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 10810910^{8}-10^{9}\,Hz and 1013102710^{13}-10^{27}\,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.

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@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

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