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The gravitational wave (GW) signal offers a promising window into the dynamics of the early universe. The recent results from the pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) could be the first glimpse of such new physics. In particular, they could point to…

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In a general metric theory of gravitation in four dimensions, six polarizations of a gravitational wave are allowed: two scalar and two vector modes, in addition to two tensor modes in general relativity. Such additional polarization modes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-23 Atsushi Nishizawa , Kazuhiro Hayama

We review the general relativistic theory of the motion, and of the timing, of binary systems containing compact objects (neutron stars or black holes). Then we indicate the various ways one can use binary pulsar data to test the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Thibault Damour

The cosmological propagation of tensor perturbations is studied in the context of parity-violating extensions of the symmetric teleparallel equivalent of General Relativity theory. This non-Riemannian formulation allows for a wider variety…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-11 Aindriú Conroy , Tomi Koivisto

Efforts to detect gravitational waves by timing an array of pulsars have focused traditionally on stationary gravitational waves: e.g., stochastic or periodic signals. Gravitational wave bursts --- signals whose duration is much shorter…

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Gravitational wave background results from the superposition of gravitational waves generated from all sources across the Universe. Previous efforts on detecting such a background with pulsar timing arrays assume it is an isotropic Gaussian…

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Efforts are underway to improve the design and sensitivity of gravitational waves detectors, with the hope that the next generation of these detectors will observe a gravitational wave signal. Such a signal will not only provide information…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Eva Sagi

Relic gravitational waves (RGWs) generated in the early Universe form a stochastic GW background, which can be directly probed by measuring the timing residuals of millisecond pulsars. In this paper, we investigate the constraints on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Xiao-Jin Liu , Wen Zhao , Yang Zhang , Zong-Hong Zhu

The number of known millisecond pulsars has dramatically increased in the last few years. Regular observations of these pulsars may allow gravitational waves with frequencies ~10^-9 Hz to be detected. A ``pulsar timing array'' is therefore…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 George Hobbs

Gravitational waves offer a potent mean to test the underlying theory of gravity. In general theories of gravity, such as scalar-tensor theories, one expects modifications in the friction term and the sound speed in the gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-17 Yi-Fu Cai , Guillem Domènech , Alexander Ganz , Jie Jiang , Chunshan Lin , Bo Wang

Recently, strong evidence was found for the presence of higher-order modes in the gravitational wave signals GW190412 and GW190814, which originated from compact binary coalescences with significantly asymmetric component masses. This has…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-19 Anna Puecher , Chinmay Kalaghatgi , Soumen Roy , Yoshinta Setyawati , Ish Gupta , B. S. Sathyaprakash , Chris Van Den Broeck

Gravitational waves are tiny disturbances in space-time and are a fundamental, although not yet directly confirmed, prediction of General Relativity. Rapidly rotating neutron stars are one of the possible sources of gravitational radiation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-03 Aaron Worley , Plamen G. Krastev , Bao-An Li

We analyze the propagation of high-frequency gravitational waves (GW) in scalar-tensor theories of gravity, with the aim of examining properties of cosmological distances as inferred from GW measurements. By using symmetry principles, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-07 Gianmassimo Tasinato , Alice Garoffolo , Daniele Bertacca , Sabino Matarrese

In this paper, we have introduced a new $f(R)$ gravity model as an attempt to have a model with more parametric control, so that the model can be used to explain the existing problems as well as to explore new directions in physics of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-03 Dhruba Jyoti Gogoi , Umananda Dev Goswami

Pulsars are wonderful gravitational probes. Their tiny size and stellar mass give their rotation periods a stablility comparable to that of atomic frequency standards. This is especially true of the rapidly rotating "millisecond pulsars"…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-21 R. N. Manchester

Our understanding of observed Gravitational Waves (GWs) comes from matching data to known signal models describing General Relativity (GR). These models, expressed in the post-Newtonian formalism, contain the mathematical constant $\pi$.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-13 Carl-Johan Haster

We determine the possible gravitational wave polarizations in two general classes of teleparallel gravity theories, using the metric and symmetric teleparallel geometries. For this purpose we apply the Newman-Penrose formalism, and find…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-09 Manuel Hohmann

With the strong evidence for a gravitational wave (GW) background in the nanohertz frequency band from pulsar timing arrays, the detection of continuous GWs from individual supermassive black hole binaries is already at the dawn. Utilizing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-23 Dicong Liang , Siyuan Chen , Chao Zhang , Lijing Shao

Before the 1970s, precision tests for gravity theories were constrained to the weak gravitational fields of the Solar system. Hence, only the weak-field slow-motion aspects of relativistic celestial mechanics could be investigated. Testing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-16 Norbert Wex

The formalism of the exact six polarization modes of gravitational waves is constructed in terms of both the small metric perturbations and the Newman-Penrose scalars. The obtained formulae are applicable to any metric-compatible gravity…

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