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Gravitational-wave detection has been pursued relentlessly for over 40 years. With the imminent operation of a new generation of laser interferometers, it is expected that detections will become a common occurrence. The research into more…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-14 Rana X Adhikari

This paper explores the quantum and classical descriptions of gravitational wave detection in interferometers like LIGO. We demonstrate that a graviton scattering and quantum optics model succeeds in explaining the observed arm…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-08 John W. Moffat

The upcoming European design study `Einstein gravitational-wave Telescope' represents the first step towards a substantial, international effort for the design of a third-generation interferometric gravitational wave detector. It is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Freise , S. Chelkowski , S. Hild , W. Del Pozzo , A. Perreca , A. Vecchio

The basic constituent of many space-borne gravitational missions, in particular for interferometric gravitational waves detectors, is the so-called link made out of a satellite sending an electromagnetic beam to a second satellite. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-05 Giuseppe Congedo , Rita Dolesi , Mauro Hueller , Stefano Vitale , William J. Weber

We investigate the matching of continuous gravitational wave (CGW) signals in an all sky search with reference to Earth based laser interferometric detectors. We consider the source location as the parameters of the signal manifold and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 S. K. Sahay

In the current work we investigate the propagation of electromagnetic waves in the field of gravitational waves. Starting with simple case of an electromagnetic wave travelling in the field of a plane monochromatic gravitational wave we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. G. Polnarev , D. Baskaran

Gravitational waves, although generally associated with extremely microscopic effects, can displace by hundreds of kilometers the pulsar interstellar scintillation patterns that bathe the Earth. The combination of the pulsar and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Redouane Fakir

The existing high technology laser-beam detectors of gravitational waves may find very useful applications in an unexpected area - geophysics. To make possible the detection of weak gravitational waves in the region of high frequencies of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 L. P. Grishchuk , V. V. Kulagin , V. N. Rudenko , A. Serdobolski

With an enlighting analysis, Baskaran and Grishchuk have recently shown the presence and importance of the so-called ``magnetic'' components of gravitational waves (GWs), which have to be taken into account in the context of the total…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Christian Corda

Significant progress has been made in recent years on the development of gravitational wave detectors. Sources such as coalescing compact binary systems, neutron stars in low-mass X-ray binaries, stellar collapses and pulsars are all…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Matthew Pitkin , Stuart Reid , Sheila Rowan , Jim Hough

In an external electric or magnetic field, a gravitational wave (GW) may be converted into electromagnetic radiation. We present a coordinate-invariant framework to describe the GW signal in a detector that is based on this effect, such as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-05 Wolfram Ratzinger , Sebastian Schenk , Pedro Schwaller

Next-generation gravitational wave (GW) experiments will explore higher frequency ranges, where GW wavelengths approach the size of the detector itself. In this regime, GWs may be detected not just through the well-known mechanical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-01 Lars Fischer , Tom Krokotsch , Gudrid Moortgat-Pick

Understanding and dealing with inference biases in gravitational-wave (GW) parameter estimation when a plethora of signals are present in the data is one of the key challenges for the analysis of data from future GW detectors. Working…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-25 Andrea Antonelli , Ollie Burke , Jonathan R. Gair

The inspiral range is the most common metric for characterizing the performance of ground-based gravitational-wave interferometers. However, there is no clear formalism for working with frequency-dependent inspiral range quantities. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-12 Derek Davis , Elenna Capote

The sensitivity of ground-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors will be improved in the future via the injection of frequency-dependent squeezed vacuum. The achievable improvement is ultimately limited by losses of the interferometer…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-10 Antonio Perreca , Aidan Brooks , Jonathan Richardson , Daniel Toyra , Rory Smith

In this paper we demonstrate that a double Michelson interferometer with Fabry-Perot cavities in its arms is able to perform laser- and displacement-noise-free gravitational-wave (GW) detection if certain model assumptions are met. Assuming…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-04-22 Sergey P. Tarabrin , Sergey P. Vyatchanin

Observations of gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary coalescences provide powerful tests of general relativity (GR), but systematic errors in data analysis could lead to incorrect scientific conclusions. This issue is especially…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-16 Qian Hu , John Veitch

We discuss the calculation of the refractive index by means of the ab initio scalar dielectric function and point out its inherent limitations. To overcome these, we start from the recently proposed fundamental, microscopic wave equation in…

Optics · Physics 2020-09-08 Ronald Starke , Giulio A. H. Schober , René Wirnata , Jens Kortus

In this paper, we present a novel approach that can exactly recover extended targets in wave-based multistatic interferometric imaging, based on Generalized Wirtinger Flow (GWF) theory [1]. Interferometric imaging is a generalization of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-10 Bariscan Yonel , Il-Young Son , Birsen Yazici

Joint gravitational-wave (GW) and $\gamma$-ray burst (GRB) observations are among the best prospects for standard siren cosmology. However, the strong selection effect for the coincident GRB detection, which is possible only for sources…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-12 Michele Mancarella , Francesco Iacovelli , Stefano Foffa , Niccolò Muttoni , Michele Maggiore