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A conservative constraint on the Einstein Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP) can be obtained under the assumption that the observed time delay between correlated particles from astronomical sources is dominated by the gravitational fields…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-03 Xue-Feng Wu , He Gao , Jun-Jie Wei , Xi-Long Fan , Peter Mészáros , Bing Zhang , Zi-Gao Dai , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Zong-Hong Zhu

Pulsar timing experiments are reaching sufficient sensitivity to detect a postulated stochastic gravitational wave background generated by merging supermassive black hole systems in the cores of galaxies. We describe the techniques behind…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 G. Hobbs

Gravitational waves carry unique information about high-energy astrophysical events such as the inspiral and merger of neutron stars and black holes, core collapse in massive stars, and other sources. Large gravitational wave (GW) detectors…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Peter S. Shawhan

Gravitational waves from the coalescence of compact-binary sources are now routinely observed by Earth bound detectors. The most sensitive search algorithms convolve many different pre-calculated gravitational waveforms with the detector…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-11 Marlin B. Schäfer , Alexander H. Nitz

Despite the fact that quantum gravity theory still remains elusive, it is generally expected that it will bring the picture of a space-time foam at short distances leading to Lorenz Invariance Violation (LIV) manifested e.g. by energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Marek Biesiada , Aleksandra Piórkowska

This review is focused on tests of Einstein's theory of general relativity with gravitational waves that are detectable by ground-based interferometers and pulsar-timing experiments. Einstein's theory has been greatly constrained in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-13 Nicolas Yunes , Xavier Siemens , Kent Yagi

The advent of gravitational wave astronomy provides new proving grounds for testing theories of gravity. Recent work has reinvigorated the study of bimetric theories of gravity and massive gravity theories. One of the most interesting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-14 Jeffrey S. Hazboun , Manuel Pichardo Marcano , Shane L. Larson

We present a new idea that allows us to detect gravitational waves without being disturbed by any kind of displacement noise, based on the fact that gravitational waves and test-mass motions affect the propagations of light differently. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Seiji Kawamura , Yanbei Chen

The future detection of gravitational wave forces us to consider the many ways in which astrophysics, gravitational wave theory and fundamental theory will interact. In this paper, I summarize some recent work done to develop such an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-12-19 Nicolas Yunes

The various materials of test masses, and the difference of arm lengths of global ground-based gravitational-wave interferometer detectors offer a unique approach to test Newton's second law, weak equivalence principle, and Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-29 Xi-Long Fan

Gravitational-wave observations of binary black holes allow new tests of general relativity to be performed on strong, dynamical gravitational fields. These tests require accurate waveform models of the gravitational-wave signal, otherwise…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-29 Christopher J. Moore , Eliot Finch , Riccardo Buscicchio , Davide Gerosa

Using recent experimental results of detection of gravitational waves from the binary black hole signals by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo, we investigate the propagation of gravitational waves in the context of fourth order gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-17 Gaetano Lambiase , Mairi Sakellariadou , Antonio Stabile

In testing gravity a model-independent way, one of crucial tests is measuring the propagation speed of a gravitational wave (GW). In general relativity, a GW propagates with the speed of light, while in the alternative theories of gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-22 Atsushi Nishizawa

Even though one could already constrain different models in cosmology and Beyond Standard Model physics using CMB data, these models remained unconstrained at shorter wavelength scales, and knowledge of new physics at higher energy scales…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Rafael R. Lino dos Santos , Linda M. van Manen

Optical and infrared observations have thus far detected more celestial cataclysms than have been seen in gravity waves (GW). This argues that we should search for gravity wave signatures that correspond to flux variability seen at optical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-05 Christopher W. Stubbs

Gravitational waves propagate along null geodesics like light rays in the geometrical optics approximation, and they may have a chance to suffer from gravitational lensing by intervening objects, as is the case for electromagnetic waves.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-12 Yousuke Itoh , Toshifumi Futamase , Makoto Hattori

The recent discovery of gravitational waves by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration created renewed interest in the investigation of alternative gravitational detector designs, such as small scale resonant detectors. In this article, it is shown…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-02 Dennis Rätzel , Ivette Fuentes

Using Fermat's principle, we analyze the effects of very long wavelength gravitational waves upon the images of a gravitationally lensed quasar. We show that the lens equation in the presence of gravity waves is equivalent to that of a lens…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-09 J. Frieman , D. Harari , G. Surpi

The discrepancies between recently reported experimental values of the gravitational constant were analysed within an inertia interpretation of MOND theory. According to this scenario the relative gravitational acceleration between a test…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-31 Norbert Klein

There exist six possible polarization modes of gravitational waves in general metric theory of gravity, while two tensor polarization modes are allowed in general relativity. The properties and number of polarization modes depend on gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-28 Hiroki Takeda , Atsushi Nishizawa , Koji Nagano , Yuta Michimura , Kentaro Komori , Masaki Ando , Kazuhiro Hayama