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In this study, we investigate the polarization properties of gravitational waves within a torsionless spacetime framework, as described by the Palatini formalism. Our analysis uncovers the presence of two novel polarization modes, referred…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-06 Yu-Qi Dong , Xiao-Bin Lai , Yu-Zhi Fan , Yu-Xiao Liu

We introduce a novel method to compute gravitational wave amplitudes within the framework of effective field theory. By reinterpreting the Feynman diagram expansion as a Born series, our method offers several key advantages. It directly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-19 Simon Caron-Huot , Miguel Correia , Giulia Isabella , Mikhail Solon

We investigate the detectability of massive mode of polarization of Gravitational Waves (GWs) in f(R) theory of gravity associated with Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) sources. We obtain the beam pattern function of Laser Interferometric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-22 P. Prasia , V. C. Kuriakose

Polarization, spin, and helicity are important properties of electromagnetic waves. It is commonly believed that helicity is invariant under the Lorentz transformations. This is indeed so for plane waves and their localized superpositions.…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-08 Konstantin Y. Bliokh

The definition of the Riemann-Cartan space of the plane wave type is given. The condition under which the torsion plane waves exist is found. It is expressed in the form of the restriction imposed on the coupling constants of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 O. V. Babourova , B. N. Frolov , E. A. Klimova

In addition to the usual linear gravitational waves in transverse-traceless coordinates, higher-order gravitational field equations, as well as their corresponding solutions, are explicitly obtained. It is found that higher-order waves do…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-30 H. Arcos , M. Krssak , J. G. Pereira

We investigate propagation of gravitational waves in the most general teleparallel gravity model with second order field equations around the Minkowski background. We argue that in this case the most general Lagrangian at the first order of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-08 Manuel Hohmann , Martin Krššák , Christian Pfeifer , Ulbossyn Ualikhanova

A quasi-spherical approximation scheme, intended to apply to coalescing black holes, allows the waveforms of gravitational radiation to be computed by integrating ordinary differential equations.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 Sean A. Hayward

It is shown that Birkhoff's theorem for the general theory of relativity is overcome in the $f(R)$-theory of gravitation. That means, the $f(R)$-theory of gravitation, unlike Einstein's general theory of relativity, does not forbid…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-18 Pham Van Ky , Nguyen Thi Hong Van , Nguyen Anh Ky

The usual theoretical model for synchrotron radiation in circular accelerators (synchrotrons and storage rings) is to treat a single electron moving in a horizontal circle in a uniform vertical magnetic field, but the true situation in real…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 S. R. Mane

The periodic standing wave method studies circular orbits of compact objects coupled to helically symmetric standing wave gravitational fields. From this solution an approximation is extracted for the strong field, slowly inspiralling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-03-24 Napoleon Hernandez , Richard H. Price

Gravitational waves perturb the paths of photons, impacting both the time-of-flight and the arrival direction of light from stars. Pulsar timing arrays can detect gravitational waves by measuring the variations in the time of flight of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-18 Logan O'Beirne , Neil J. Cornish

In this paper, we investigate the polarization modes of gravitational waves within the most general symmetric teleparallel gravity theory that allows for second-order field equations We consider both scenarios where test particles either…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-03 Yu-Qi Dong , Xiao-Bin Lai , Yu-Zhi Fan , Yu-Xiao Liu

Aims. The magnetized medium induces birefringence, splitting the light into two distinct wave modes. The differing propagation speeds of the two modes result in different trajectories. Strong gravitational lensing amplifies the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-09 Xinzhong Er

The known exact solutions of Einstein's vacuum field equations modeling the gravitational fields of pure gravitational radiation involve wave fronts which are either planar or roughly spherical. We describe a scheme designed to check…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-02 Peter A. Hogan , Dirk Puetzfeld

In this paper, we have considered how to detect the processes of plane gravitational waves colliding. The degenerate Ferrari-Ibanez solution describes the collision of plane gravitational waves with aligned linear polarization, and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-27 Dongdong Wei , Xinhe Meng , Bin Wang

Radio pulsar polarization exhibits a number of complex phenomena that are classified into the realm of `beyond the rotating vector model' (RVM). It is shown that these effects can be understood in geometrical terms, as a result of coherent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-26 J. Dyks

We discuss gravitational waves from merging binaries using a Newtonian approach with some inputs from the Post-Newtonian formalism. We show that it is possible to understand the key features of the signal using fundamental physics and also…

Popular Physics · Physics 2019-12-20 Jahanvi , Ashish Kumar Meena , J. S. Bagla

Twisted gravitational waves (TGWs) are nonplanar waves with twisted rays that move along a fixed direction in space. We study further the physical characteristics of a recent class of Ricci-flat solutions of general relativity representing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-19 Donato Bini , Carmen Chicone , Bahram Mashhoon , Kjell Rosquist

In this review we examine the amplitude intensity associated to tensorial and non-tensorial polarization modes generated by binary systems at their inspiral stage, within the alternative theories of gravity of Brans Dicke, Rosen, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-31 Alejandro Casallas-Lagos , Claudia Moreno , Javier M. Antelis , Rafael Hernández-Jiménez