English

Towards detecting the temporal fluctuations from gravitational waves in asynchronous gauges

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2025-09-19 v2

Abstract

The experimental possibility of detecting gravitational waves via their induced time perturbations is explored here, expanding from previous work. The oscillations of the time-time component in the metric are made explicit when working in asynchronous gauges: the desynchronization between a perturbed clock and a reference unperturbed clock constitutes the corresponding observable core target of a detector. To this end we explore the experimental techniques currently available for a preliminary assessment towards a feasibility study. We survey the state of the art in the fields of high precision timing and information preservation, necessary for achieving geodesic non-locality. A synthesis for a feasible prototype detector with the desired characteristics is presented. The optimum point between existing technologies is found around the 1 Hz frequency band, opening the window for the observation of classes of speculated sources of gravitational radiation such as intermediate mass black hole binaries.

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@article{arxiv.2509.13321,
  title  = {Towards detecting the temporal fluctuations from gravitational waves in asynchronous gauges},
  author = {Stefano Bondani and Sergio Luigi Cacciatori},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.13321},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

52 pages, 5 figures, minor changes, corrected typos

R2 v1 2026-07-01T05:40:11.359Z