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A method is presented to generalize the power detectors for short bursts of gravitational waves that have been developed for single interferometers so that they can optimally process data from a network of interferometers. The performances…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Julien Sylvestre

The effect of the angular momentum density of a gravitational source on the times of flight of light rays in an interferometer is analyzed. The calculation is made imagining that the interferometer is at the equator of the gravity source…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Angelo Tartaglia , Matteo Luca Ruggiero

The speed of gravity is an important universal constant. But, it has not been directly known with experiment or observation. The explanations for it are contradicted with each other. Here, it is presented that the interaction and…

General Physics · Physics 2013-11-26 Yin Zhu

Detecting gravitational wave bursts (characterised by short durations and poorly modelled waveforms) requires to have coincidences between several interferometric detectors in order to reject non-stationary noise events. As the wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Nicolas Arnaud , Matteo Barsuglia , Marie-Anne Bizouard , Philippe Canitrot , Fabien Cavalier , Michel Davier , Patrice Hello , Thierry Pradier

In precision metrology the determination of the Newtonian gravity constant $G$ represents a real problem, since its history is plagued by huge unknown discrepancies between a large number of independent experiments. In this paper we propose…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-10-02 G. Rosi

The paper is devoted to the presentation of the non-spectral methods of analysis of the natural measurements of the internal gravity waves in the ocean with the purpose to determine characteristics of the wave-trains composing the measured…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2007-07-13 Vitaly A. Bulatov

The possibility of measuring the second order correlation function of the gravitational waves detectors' currents or photonumbers, and the observation of the gravitational signals by using a spectrum analyzer is discussed. The method is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Ben-Aryeh

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 present an approach to experimentally evaluate gravity gradient noise, a potentially limiting noise source in advanced interferometric gravitational wave (GW) detectors. In addition, the method can be used to provide sub-percent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 L. Matone , P. Raffai , S. Marka , R. Grossman , P. Kalmus , Z. Marka , J. Rollins , V. Sannibale

Newton's constant is the least well-measured among the fundamental constants of Nature, and, indeed, its accurate measurement has long served an experimental challenge. Levitated mechanical systems are attracting growing attention for their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Francis J. Headley , Alessio Belenchia , Mauro Paternostro , Daniel Braun

Interferometers with kilometer-scale arms have been built for gravitational-wave detections on the ground; ones with much longer arms are being planned for space-based detection. One fundamental motivation for long baseline interferometry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-06 Kentaro Somiya , Keisuke Goda , Yanbei Chen , Eugeniy E. Mikhailov

We propose to use weak measurements away from the weak-value amplification regime to carry out precision measurements of time delays of light. Our scheme is robust to several sources of noise that are shown to only limit the relative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-27 Grégory Strübi , C. Bruder

A major obstacle to attain the fundamental precision limit of the phase estimation in an interferometry is the identification and implementation of the optimal measurement. Here we demonstrate that this can be accomplished by the use of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 Wei Zhong , Yixiao Huang , Xiaoguang Wang , Shi-Liang Zhu

The models currently used in the detection of gravitational waves (GWs) either do not consider a relative motion between the center-of-mass of the source and the observer, or usually only consider its effect on the frequencies of GWs.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-28 Alejandro Torres-Orjuela , Xian Chen , Zhoujian Cao , Pau Amaro-Seoane , Peng Peng

Inertial sensors relying on atom interferometry offer a breakthrough advance in a variety of applications, such as inertial navigation, gravimetry or ground- and space-based tests of fundamental physics. These instruments require a quiet…

A typical approach to developing an analysis algorithm for analyzing gravitational wave data is to assume a particular waveform and use its characteristics to formulate a detection criteria. Once a detection has been made, the algorithm…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Louis J. Rubbo

Detection of gravitational waves (GW) provides us an opportunity to test general relativity in strong and dynamical regimes of gravity. One of the tests is checking whether GW propagates with the speed of light or not. This test is crucial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-27 Atsushi Nishizawa , Takashi Nakamura

Significant progress has been made in recent years on the development of gravitational wave detectors. Sources such as coalescing compact binary systems, neutron stars in low-mass X-ray binaries, stellar collapses and pulsars are all…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Matthew Pitkin , Stuart Reid , Sheila Rowan , Jim Hough

We propose a coherent method for the detection and reconstruction of gravitational wave signals for a network of interferometric detectors. The method is derived using the likelihood functional for unknown signal waveforms. In the standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Klimenko , S. Mohanty , M. Rakhmanov , G. Mitselmakher , .

A universal amplification scheme of ultra-small phase based on weak measurements is given and a weak measurements amplification based laser interferometer gravitational-wave observatory (WMA-LIGO) is suggested. The WMA-LIGO has potential to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-03 Meng-Jun Hu , Yong-Sheng Zhang