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We have developed a new gravitaional-wave (GW) detector, TOrsion-Bar Antenna (TOBA), with multiple-output configuration. TOBA is a detector with bar-shaped test masses that rotate by the tidal force of the GWs. In our detector, three…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-19 Ayaka Shoda , Yuya Kuwahara , Masaki Ando , Kazunari Eda , Kodai Tejima , Yoichi Aso , Yousuke Itoh

Expanding the observational frequency of gravitational waves is important for the future of astronomy. Torsion-Bar Antenna (TOBA) is a mid-frequency and low-frequency gravitational wave detector using a torsion pendulum. The low resonant…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-02-04 Tomofumi Shimoda , Satoru Takano , Ching Pin Ooi , Naoki Aritomi , Ayaka Shoda , Yuta Michimura , Masaki Ando

The Torsion-Bar Antenna (TOBA) is a torsion pendulum-based gravitational detector developed to observe gravitational waves in frequencies between 1 mHz and 10 Hz. The low resonant frequency of the torsion pendulum enables observation in…

Torsion-Bar Antenna (TOBA) is a ground-based gravitational wave detector using torsion pendulums. TOBA can detect intermediate-mass black hole binary mergers, gravitational wave stochastic background, and Newtonian noise, and is useful for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-07-29 Yuka Oshima , Satoru Takano , Ching Pin Ooi , Yuta Michimura , Masaki Ando

We have set a new upper limit on the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) using two prototype Torsion-bar Antennas (TOBAs). TOBA is a low-frequency gravitational-wave detector with bar-shaped test masses rotated by the tidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-28 Ayaka Shoda , Masaki Ando , Koji Ishidoshiro , Kenshi Okada , Wataru Kokuyama , Yoichi Aso , Kimio Tsubono

A torsion-bar antenna (TOBA) is a low-frequency terrestrial gravitational wave (GW) antenna which consists of two orthogonal bar-shaped test masses. We upgraded the prototype TOBA and achieved the strain sensitivity $10^{-10}$ Hz$^{-1/2}$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-02 Kazunari Eda , Ayaka Shoda , Yuya Kuwahara , Yousuke Itoh , Masaki Ando

We set the first upper limit on the stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background in the frequency range of $1-5\,\mathrm{Hz}$ using a Torsion-bar Antenna (TOBA). A TOBA is a GW detector designed for the detection of low frequency GWs on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Yuya Kuwahara , Ayaka Shoda , Kazunari Eda , Masaki Ando

A brief history and various themes of mid-frequency gravitational wave detection are presented more or less following historical order -- Laser Interferometry, Atom Interferometry (AI), Torsion Bar Antenna (TOBA), and Superconducting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-14 Wei-Tou Ni

We present the first upper limit on gravitational wave (GW) backgrounds at an unexplored frequency of 0.2 Hz using a torsion-bar antenna (TOBA). A TOBA was proposed to search for low-frequency GWs. We have developed a small-scaled TOBA and…

This paper proposes a novel towed movable antenna (ToMA) array architecture to enhance the physical layer security of airborne communication systems. Unlike conventional onboard arrays with fixed-position antennas (FPAs), the ToMA array…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Lipeng Zhu , Haobin Mao , Wenyan Ma , Zhenyu Xiao , Jun Zhang , Rui Zhang

We report the results of a theoretical and experimental study of a spherical gravitational wave antenna. We show that it is possible to understand the data from a spherical antenna with 6 radial resonant transducers attached to the surface…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 Stephen M. Merkowitz , Warren W. Johnson

The resultant response of the rotating torsion bar antenna for gravitational waves discussed in [M. Ando et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 105} (2010), 161101.] is re-investigate from a general-relativistic point of view. To do this, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Kouji Nakamura , Masaki Ando

While initial beam alignment (BA) in millimeter-wave networks has been thoroughly investigated, most research assumes a simplified terminal model based on uniform linear/planar arrays with isotropic antennas. Devices with non-isotropic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-23 Sajad Rezaie , João Morais , Elisabeth de Carvalho , Ahmed Alkhateeb , Carles Navarro Manchón

We propose a method for separating and detecting the non-tensor modes of stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds (SGWBs) using networks of space-based gravitational-wave detectors. We consider four distinct data-reconstruction schemes for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-24 Bo Mu , Zong-Kuan Guo

For the first time, we have introduced the Tetrahedron Constellation of Gravitational Wave Observatory (TEGO) composed of four identical spacecrafts (S/Cs). The laser telescopes and their pointing structures are mounted on the S/C platform…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-27 Hong-Bo Jin , Cong-Feng Qiao

Two beam broadening methods for active electronically scanned array (AESA) antennas with uniform amplitude excitation are proposed and compared: phase tapering optimization (PTO) and a novel time-varying phase tapering (TPT). The PTO is a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Lior Maman , Shlomo Zach , Amir Boag

This paper presents an automated antenna design and optimization framework employing multi-objective genetic algorithms (MOGAs) to investigate various evolutionary optimization approaches, with a primary emphasis on multi-band frequency…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Moahmed Hamza Boulaich , Said Ohamouddou , Mohammed Ali Ennasar , Abdelatif El Afia

In their simplest form, bulk acoustic wave (BAW) devices consist of a piezoelectric crystal between two electrodes that transduce the material's vibrations into electrical signals. They are adopted in frequency control and metrology, with…

Movable antennas (MAs) have emerged as a promising technology to improve wireless communication and sensing performance towards sixth-generation (6G) networks through flexible antenna movement. In this paper, we propose a novel wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Haobin Mao , Lipeng Zhu , Wenyan Ma , Zhenyu Xiao , Xiang-Gen Xia , Rui Zhang

We investigate the sensitivity of a torsion-bar gravitational-wave detector to Yukawa-type deviations from Newtonian gravity using a differential gravitational calibrator (GCal), where two rotating mass systems cancel the leading Newtonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-14 Yuki Inoue , Hsiang-Yu Huang , Vivek Kumar , Daiki Tanabe
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