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On a time scale of years to decades, gravitational wave (GW) astronomy will become a reality. Low frequency (nanoHz) GWs are detectable through long-term timing observations of the most stable pulsars. Radio observatories worldwide are…

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 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

The existing high technology laser-beam detectors of gravitational waves may find very useful applications in an unexpected area - geophysics. To make possible the detection of weak gravitational waves in the region of high frequencies of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 L. P. Grishchuk , V. V. Kulagin , V. N. Rudenko , A. Serdobolski

Space-based gravitational wave detection is based on the astrodynamical equations derived from gravitational theory to detect changes in distance between spacecraft/celestial bodies and/or their state changes caused by gravitational waves.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-04 Wei-Tou Ni

Over the last three decades, an exceptionally good science case has been made for pursuing gravitational wave (GW) astronomy. This has engendered a worldwide effort to detect the extremely weak signals generated by expected sources. With…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-12 S. Buchman , J. A. Lipa , R. L. Byer , D. DeBra , K. Balakrishnan , G. Dufresne Cutler , A. Al-Fauwaz , E. Hultgren , A. K. Al-Jadaan , S. Saraf , S. Tan , S. Al-Thubiti , A. Zoellner

The recently assembled laser-beam detectors of gravitational waves are approaching the planned level of sensitivity. In the coming 1 - 2 years, we may be observing the rare but powerful events of inspiral and merger of binary stellar-mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 L. P. Grishchuk

We propose a new method to detect gravitational waves, based on spatial coherence interferometry with stellar light, as opposed to the conventional temporal coherence interferometry with laser sources. The proposed method detects…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-09 I. H. Park , K. -Y. Choi , J. Hwang , S. Jung , D. H. Kim , M. H. Kim , C. -H. Lee , K. H. Lee , S. H. Oh , M. -G. Park , S. C. Park , A. Pozanenko , C. D. Rho , N. Vedenkin , E. Won

Pulsar timing array projects are carrying out high precision observations of millisecond pulsars with the aim of detecting ultra-low frequency (~ 10^{-9} to 10^{-8} Hz) gravitational waves. We show how unambiguous detections of such waves…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 George Hobbs

A space-based interferometer operating in the previously unexplored mHz gravitational band has tremendous discovery potential. If history is any guide, the opening of a new spectral band will lead to the discovery of entirely new sources…

The first direct detection of gravitational waves may be made through observations of pulsars. The principal aim of pulsar timing array projects being carried out worldwide is to detect ultra-low frequency gravitational waves (f ~ 10^-9 to…

Gravitational wave science is on the verge of direct observation of the waves predicted by Einstein's General Theory of Relativity and opening the exciting new field of gravitational wave astronomy. In the coming decades, ultra-sensitive…

Complementary to ground-based laser interferometers, pulsar timing array experiments are being carried out to search for nanohertz gravitational waves. Using the world's most powerful radio telescopes, three major international…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-16 Xing-Jiang Zhu , Linqing Wen , George Hobbs , Richard N. Manchester , Ryan M. Shannon

This paper focuses on the next detectors for gravitational wave astronomy which will be required after the current ground based detectors have completed their initial observations, and probably achieved the first direct detection of…

Direct observations of gravitational waves at frequencies around deci-Hertz will play a crucial role in fully exploiting the potential of multi-messenger astronomy. In this chapter, we discuss the detection landscape for the next several…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-20 Kiwamu Izumi , Karan Jani

The stability of the spin of pulsars and the precision with which these spins can be determined, allows many unique tests of interest to physics and astrophysics. Perhaps the most challenging and revolutionary of these, is the detection of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-07 Joris P. W. Verbiest , Sarah J. Vigeland , Nataliya K. Porayko , Siyuan Chen , Daniel J. Reardon

A new detection method for gravitational waves (GWs) with ultra-low frequencies ($f_{\rm GW} \lesssim 10^{-10}~{\rm Hz}$), which is much lower than the range of pulsar timing arrays (PTAs), was proposed in Yonemaru et al. (2016). This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-29 Shinnosuke Hisano , Naoyuki Yonemaru , Hiroki Kumamoto , Keitaro Takahashi

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will open three decades of gravitational wave (GW) spectrum between 0.1 and 100 mHz, the mHz band. This band is expected to be the richest part of the GW spectrum, in types of sources, numbers…

The past four years have seen a scientific revolution through the birth of a new field: gravitational-wave astronomy. The first detection of gravitational waves---recognised by the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics---provided unprecedented tests…

Since the first detection of gravitational-wave (GW), GW150914, September 14th 2015, the multi-messenger astronomy added a new way of observing the Universe together with electromagnetic (EM) waves and neutrinos. After two years, GW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-14 Pil-Jong Jung , Keun-Young Kim , Young-Min Kim , John J. Oh , Sang Hoon Oh , Edwin J. Son