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The role that the quantum properties of a gravitational wave could play in the detection of gravitational radiation is analyzed. It is not only corroborated that in the current laser-interferometric detectors the resolution of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Camacho

The LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) detectors have just completed their first science run, following many years of planning, research, and development. LIGO is a member of what will be a worldwide network of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Scott A. Hughes

It is generally accepted that a first ever direct detection of gravity waves would herald a new era in astronomy and in fundamental physics. Ever since the early sixties, increasingly larger human and material resources are being invested…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Redouane Fakir

A world-wide array of highly sensitive interferometers stands poised to usher in a new era in astronomy with the first direct detection of gravitational waves. The data from these instruments will provide a unique perspective on extreme…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-27 Neil J. Cornish

A world-wide effort is now underway to build gravitational wave detectors based on highly-sensitive laser interferometers. When data from detectors at different sites is properly combined, it will permit highly-sensitive searches for a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-08-21 Bruce Allen

Space-borne gravitational wave detections raise new questions for heliophysics: how the Sun-Terrestrial space environment affect gravitational wave detection, and to what extent? Space-borne gravitational wave detectors use laser…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-23 Wei Su

Laser interferometer gravitational wave detectors can be operated at their free spectral range frequency. We show that in this case and when the interferometer is well understood one could detect a stochastic background using a single…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Adrian C. Melissinos , William E. Butler

Gravitational wave astronomy has emerged as a new branch of observational astronomy, since the first detection of gravitational waves in 2015. The current number of $O(100)$ detections is expected to grow by several orders of magnitude over…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-17 Nikolaos Stergioulas

In order to expand the astrophysical reach of gravitational wave detectors, several interferometer topologies have been proposed to evade the thermodynamic and quantum mechanical limits in future detectors. In this work, we make a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Haixing Miao , Huan Yang , Rana X Adhikari , Yanbei Chen

The detection of gravitational waves from compact binary mergers by LIGO has opened the era of gravitational wave astronomy, revealing a previously hidden side of the cosmos. To maximize the reach of the existing LIGO observatory…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 Rana X Adhikari , Odylio Aguiar , Koji Arai , Bryan Barr , Riccardo Bassiri , Garilynn Billingsley , Ross Birney , David Blair , Joseph Briggs , Aidan F Brooks , Daniel D Brown , Huy-Tuong Cao , Marcio Constancio , Sam Cooper , Thomas Corbitt , Dennis Coyne , Edward Daw , Johannes Eichholz , Martin Fejer , Andreas Freise , Valery Frolov , Slawomir Gras , Anna Green , Hartmut Grote , Eric K Gustafson , Evan D Hall , Giles Hammond , Jan Harms , Gregg Harry , Karen Haughian , Frances Hellman , Jan-Simon Hennig , Margot Hennig , Stefan Hild , Warren Johnson , Brittany Kamai , Disha Kapasi , Kentaro Komori , Mikhail Korobko , Kevin Kuns , Brian Lantz , Sean Leavey , Fabian Magana-Sandoval , Ashot Markosyan , Iain Martin , Rodica Martin , Denis V Martynov , David Mcclelland , Graeme Mcghee , Joseph Mills , Valery Mitrofanov , Manel Molina-Ruiz , Conor Mow-Lowry , Peter Murray , Sebastian Ng , Leonid Prokhorov , Volker Quetschke , Stuart Reid , David Reitze , Jonathan Richardson , Raymond Robie , Isobel Romero-Shaw , Sheila Rowan , Roman Schnabel , Merle Schneewind , Brett Shapiro , David Shoemaker , Bram Slagmolen , Joshua Smith , Jessica Steinlechner , Simon Tait , David Tanner , Calum Torrie , Joris Vanheijningen , Peter Veitch , Gavin Wallace , Peter Wessels , Benno Willke , Christopher Wipf , Hiro Yamamoto , Chunnong Zhao , Lisa Barsotti , Robert Ward , Angus Bell , Robert Byer , Andrew Wade , William Z Korth , Frank Seifert , Nicholas Smith , Dimitry Koptsov , Zeno Tornasi , Aaron Markowitz , Georgia Mansell , Terry Mcrae , Paul Altin , Min J Yap , Marielle Van Veggel , Graeme Eddolls , Edgard Bonilla , Elvis C Ferreira , Allan S Silva , Marcos A Okada , Diego Taira , Daniel Heinert , James Hough , Ken Strain , Alan Cumming , Roger Route , Daniel Shaddock , Matthew Evans , Rainer Weiss

The direct detection of gravitational wave by Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory indicates the coming of the era of gravitational-wave astronomy and gravitational-wave cosmology. It is expected that more and more…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-27 Rong-Gen Cai , Zhoujian Cao , Zong-Kuan Guo , Shao-Jiang Wang , Tao Yang

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

High-frequency gravitational waves can be detected by observing the frequency modulation they impart on photons. We discuss fundamental limitations to this method related to the fact that it is impossible to construct a perfectly rigid…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-12 Torsten Bringmann , Valerie Domcke , Elina Fuchs , Joachim Kopp

Nearly a century after Einstein first predicted the existence of gravitational waves, a global network of earth-based gravitational wave observatories is seeking to directly detect this faint radiation using precision laser interferometry.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-02 The LIGO Scientific Collaboration

We use recent population synthesis results to investigate the distribution of pulsars in the frequency space, having a gravitational strain high enough to be detected by the future generations of laser beam interferometers. We find that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tania Regimbau , Jose Antonio de Freitas Pacheco

Continuous gravitational waves have the potential to transform gravitational wave astronomy and yield fresh insights into astrophysics, nuclear and particle physics, and condensed matter physics. We evaluate their detectability by combining…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-05 Benjamin J. Owen , Binod Rajbhandari

We propose two distinct atom interferometer gravitational wave detectors, one terrestrial and another satellite-based, utilizing the core technology of the Stanford $10 \text{m}$ atom interferometer presently under construction. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-06-22 Savas Dimopoulos , Peter W. Graham , Jason M. Hogan , Mark A. Kasevich , Surjeet Rajendran

Several filtering methods for the detection of gravitational wave bursts in interferometric detectors are presented. These are simple and fast methods which can act as online triggers. All methods are compared to matched filtering with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Pradier , N. Arnaud , M. -A. Bizouard , F. Cavalier , M. Davier , P. Hello

The properties of potential gravitational wave sources like neutron stars, black holes and binary systems are reviewed, as well as the different contributions (stochastic and continuous) to the gravitational wave background. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. A. de Freitas Pacheco

Continuous gravitational waves from rapidly rotating neutron stars are on the new frontiers of gravitational wave astrophysics and have strong connections to electromagnetic astronomy, nuclear astrophysics, and condensed matter physics. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-13 Benjamin J. Owen