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Gravitational-wave astronomy provides a unique new way to study the expansion history of the Universe. In this work, we investigate the impact future gravitational-wave observatories will have on cosmology. Third-generation observatories…

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The Einstein Telescope is a third-generation underground gravitational wave observatory designed to achieve unprecedented sensitivity down to 3 Hz. Waves propagating in the soil due to anthropogenic or natural vibration sources generate…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Pieter Reumers , Xhorxha Kuci , Stijn François , Geert Degrande

Increasing the sensitivity of a gravitational-wave (GW) detector improves our ability to measure the characteristics of detected sources. It also increases the number of weak signals that contribute to the data. Because GW detectors have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-06 Tania Regimbau , Scott A. Hughes

In the future, the third generation (3G) gravitational wave (GW) detectors, exemplified by the Einstein Telescope (ET), will be operational. The detection rate of GW from binary neutron star (BNS) is expected to reach approximately $10^4$…

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Ultra-high frequency gravitational waves in the MHz to THz regime promise a unique possibility to probe the very early universe, particle physics at very high energies and exotic astrophysical objects - but achieving the sensitivity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-08 Valerie Domcke

The current network of gravitational wave detectors has already revealed hundreds of compact binary coalescences (CBCs), including binary neutron stars, binary black holes, and black hole-neutron star systems. As detector sensitivity…

When completed, the gravitational wave detectors now proposed or under construction will provide us with a perspective on the Universe fundamentally different from any we have come to know. With this new perspective comes the hope that new…

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The direct observation of gravitational waves will provide a unique tool for probing the dynamical properties of highly compact astrophysical objects, mapping ultra-relativistic regions of space-time, and testing Einstein's general theory…

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Gravitational radiation is an excellent field for testing theories of gravity in strong gravitational fields. The current observations on the gravitational-wave (GW) bursts by LIGO have already placed various constraints on the alternative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-14 Xing Zhang , Jiming Yu , Tan Liu , Wen Zhao , Anzhong Wang

Stochastic gravitational wave background from the early Universe has a cut-off frequency close to 100 MHz, due to the horizon of the inflationary phase. To detect gravitational waves at such frequencies, resonant electromagnetic cavities…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-07 Nicolas Herman , Léonard Lehoucq , André Fűzfa

Gravitational waves detected by advanced ground-based detectors have allowed studying the universe in a way which is fully complementary to electromagnetic observations. As more sources are detected, it will be possible to measure…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-25 Salvatore Vitale , Chris Whittle

The physics of neutron stars can be studied with gravitational waves emitted from coalescing binary systems. Tidal effects become significant during the last few orbits and can be visible in the gravitational-wave spectrum above 500 Hz.…

Galactic neutron stars are a promising source of gravitational waves in the analysis band of detectors such as LIGO and Virgo. Previous searches for gravitational waves from neutron stars have focused on the detection of individual neutron…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-25 Dipongkar Talukder , Eric Thrane , Sukanta Bose , Tania Regimbau

We study the prospects for detection of continuous gravitational signals from "normal" Galactic neutron stars, i.e. non-recycled ones. We use a synthetic population generated by evolving stellar remnants in time, according to several…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-02 Gianluca Pagliaro , Maria Alessandra Papa , Jing Ming , Jianhui Lian , Daichi Tsuna , Claudia Maraston , Daniel Thomas

The standard siren approach of gravitational wave cosmology appeals to the direct luminosity distance estimation through the waveform signals from inspiralling double compact binaries, especially those with electromagnetic counterparts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-30 Kai Liao , Xi-Long Fan , Xu-Heng Ding , Marek Biesiada , Zong-Hong Zhu

This work introduces a geometrical method for analyzing transient gravitational waves recorded at interferometric observatories. This approach is intended to aid in assessing the performance and sensitivity of next-generation detector…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Osvaldo M. Moreschi

As engineered systems grow in complexity, there is an increasing need for automatic methods that can detect, diagnose, and even correct transient anomalies that inevitably arise and can be difficult or impossible to diagnose and fix…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Robert E. Colgan , Zsuzsa Márka , Jingkai Yan , Imre Bartos , John N. Wright , Szabolcs Márka

The dispersion in the speed of gravitational waves is a novel way to test the general theory of relativity and understand whether the origin of cosmic acceleration is due to any alternative theory of gravity. Several alternative theories of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-03 Adith Praveen , Panchajanya Dey , Suvodip Mukherjee

After giving a brief introduction and presenting a complete classification of gravitational waves (GWs) according to their frequencies, we review and summarize the detection methods, the sensitivities, and the sources. We notice that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-03 Kazuaki Kuroda , Wei-Tou Ni , Wei-Ping Pan

We propose a tunable resonant sensor to detect gravitational waves in the frequency range of 50-300 kHz using optically trapped and cooled dielectric microspheres or micro-discs. The technique we describe can exceed the sensitivity of…

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