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Over a hundred gravitational-wave signals have now been detected from the mergers of black holes and neutron stars, but other sources of gravitational waves have not yet been discovered. Some of the most violent explosive events in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-24 Jade Powell , Paul D. Lasky

The strong evidence for low-frequency gravitational waves from pulsar timing arrays (PTAs), published in 2023, has widened the scope for teaching about gravitational wave astronomy. This article provides a simple, unified overview of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-27 Markus Pössel

This paper is dedicated to investigate an astrophysical method to obtain the new dynamics generated by extra dimensions as well as bounds for the brane tension. Using the modified Einstein equations in the brane with a vanishing non-local…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-07 Miguel A. Garcia-Aspeitia

In this work we analyze the emission of gravitational waves from a gravitational system described by a Newtonian term plus a H\'enon-Heiles term. The main concern is to analyze how the inclusion of the Newtonian term changes the emission of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Kokubun

Gravitational waveforms and production could be considerably affected by gravitomagnetic corrections considered in relativistic theory of orbits. Beside the standard periastron effect of General Relativity, new nutation effects come out…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-14 S. Capozziello , M. De Laurentis , L. Forte , F. Garufi , L. Milano

We review the state of the field of gravitational wave astrophysics, framing the challenges, current observations, and future prospects within the context of the predictions of Einstein's theory of general relativity.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-07 Frans Pretorius

We discuss the possibility to obtain an electromagnetic emission accompanying the gravitational waves emitted in the coalescence of a compact binary system. Motivated by the existence of black hole configurations with open magnetic field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 S. Capozziello , M. De Laurentis , I. De Martino , M. Formisano , D. Vernieri

Until recently, the only way to observe the Universe was from light received by telescopes. But we are now able to measure gravitational waves, which are ripples in the fabric of the Universe predicted by Albert Einstein. If two very dense…

Popular Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Stephen R. Taylor

We investigate the generation of gravitational waves due to the gravitational instability of primordial density perturbations in an early matter-dominated era which could be detectable by experiments such as LIGO and LISA. We use…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 Hooshyar Assadullahi , David Wands

The production of a stochastic background of gravitational waves is a fundamental prediction of any cosmological inflationary model. The features of such a signal encode unique information about the physics of the Early Universe and beyond,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-05 Maria Chiara Guzzetti , Nicola Bartolo , Michele Liguori , Sabino Matarrese

Gravitational wave generation by a strong shock wave in the interaction of high power laser with matter is analyzed in linear approximation of gravitational theory. The analytical formulas and estimates are derived for the metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-24 Hedvika Kadlecová , Ondřej Klimo , Stefan Weber , Georg Korn

We describe the properties of evanescent gravitational waves (EGWs)---wave solutions of Einstein equations which decay exponentially in some direction while propagating in another. Evanescent waves are well-known in acoustics and optics and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-30 Sebastian Golat , Eugene A. Lim , Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño

We investigate the gravitational wave background produced by magnetars. The statistical properties of these highly magnetized stars were derived by population synthesis methods and assumed to be also representative of extragalactic objects.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-16 Tania Regimbau , José Antonio de Freitas Pacheco

The rotation of the bodies and the eccentricity of the orbit have significant effects on the emitted gravitational radiation of binary systems. This work focuses on the evaluation of the gravitational wave polarization states for spinning…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 János Majár , Mátyás Vasúth

In this paper we consider the Extra-solar Planetary Systems recently discovered in our Galaxy as potential sources of gravitational waves. We estimate the frequency and characteristic amplitude of the radiation they emit due to the orbital…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Valeria Ferrari , Marco D'Andrea , Emanuele Berti

Angular momentum loss via the emission of gravitational waves must eventually drive compact binaries containing black holes and/or neutron stars to coalesce. The resulting events are primary candidate sources for detectors such as VIRGO and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. H. Lee , W. Kluzniak

We derive a simple relationship between the energy emitted in gravitational waves for a narrowband source and the distance to which that emission can be detected by a single detector. We consider linearly polarized, elliptically polarized,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-04-02 Patrick J. Sutton

A laser interferometric detector of gravitational waves is studied and a complete solution (to first order in the metric perturbation) of the coupled Einstein-Maxwell equations with appropriate boundary conditions for the light beams is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 F. I. Cooperstock , V. Faraoni

In the study of gravitational waves (GWs), the stochastic background generated by compact binary systems are among the most important kinds of signals. The reason for such an importance has to do with their probable detection by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-17 E. F. D. Evangelista , J. C. N. de Araujo

In this paper, the emission of gravitational waves in quadratic gravity theory is examined. The wave equations for massless and massive perturbations are derived, followed by the calculation of the energy and angular momentum radiated. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-23 Matheus F. S. Alves , R. R. Cuzinatto , C. A. M. de Melo , L. G. Medeiros , P. J. Pompeia