The Response of a Two-Element Radio Interferometer to Gravitational Waves
Astrophysics
2016-08-30 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
This document presents a ray-optics analysis of the response of a two-element radio interferometer to the presence of a plane gravitational wave. A general expression for the differential phase observed between the two receiving stations as a result of an arbitrary gravitational wave is determined, as well as the specific responses to monochromatic and black hole ring-down waveforms. Finally, the possibility of gravitational wave detection via this mechanism is discussed in the context of interferometer noise.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0311462,
title = {The Response of a Two-Element Radio Interferometer to Gravitational Waves},
author = {Kipp Cannon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0311462},
year = {2016}
}
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14 pages, 8 figures