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Fundamental sensitivity of an optical interferometric gravitational wave detector increases with increase of the optical power which, in turn, limited because of the opto-mechanical parametric instabilities of the interferometer. We propose…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-27 Andrey B. Matsko , Mikhail V. Poplavskiy , Hiroaki Yamamoto , Sergey P. Vyatchanin

Strong gravitational lensing by galaxies provides us with a unique opportunity to understand the nature of gravity on galactic and extra-galactic scales. In this paper, we propose a new multimessenger approach using data from both…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 Tao Yang , Bin Hu , Rong-Gen Cai , Bin Wang

Satellite geodesy uses the measurement of the motion of one or more satellites to infer precise information about the Earth's gravitational field. In this work, we consider the achievable precision limits on such measurements by examining…

The rapidly rotating primary component of Regulus A system has been observed, for the first time, using the technique of differential interferometry at high spectral resolution. The observations have been performed across the Br$_\gamma$…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-12 S. Jankov , M. Hadjara , R. G. Petrov , P. Cruzalèbes , A. Spang , S. Lagarde

Twenty years of gravity observations from various satellite missions have provided unique data about mass redistribution processes in the Earth system. This paper studies the benefit of enhanced electrostatic and novel optical…

We investigate the limits of ground-based astrometry with adaptive optics using the core of the Galactic globular cluster M5. Adaptive optics systems provide near diffraction-limit imaging with the world's largest telescopes. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. B. Cameron , M. C. Britton , S. R. Kulkarni

Gravitational-wave (GW) events can serve as standard sirens for cosmology, as the luminosity distance to source can be directly measured from the waveform amplitude. Specifically, the ``dark'' siren method involves inferring cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-21 Yijun Wang , Yanbei Chen

Very Long Baseline Interferometry, or VLBI, is the observing technique yielding the highest-resolution images today. Whilst a traditionally large fraction of VLBI observations is concentrating on Active Galactic Nuclei, the number of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Enno Middelberg , Uwe Bach

Context. The GRAVITY+ upgrade implies a complete renewal of its adaptive optics (AO) systems. Its complex design, featuring moving components between the deformable mirrors and the wavefront sensors, requires the monitoring and…

This paper discusses a novel approach for detecting moving massive objects based on the time variation that these objects produce in the local gravitational field measured by several detectors. Such an approach may provide a viable method…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-08-14 Emmanuel David Tannenbaum

The first astrophysical results of the VLTI focal instrument AMBER have shown the importance of the differential and closure phase measures, which are supposed to be much less sensitive to atmospheric and instrumental biases than the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Florentin Millour , Romain Petrov , Martin Vannier , Stefan Kraus

Long baseline laser interferometers used for gravitational wave detection have proven to be very complicated to control. In order to have sufficient sensitivity to astrophysical gravitational waves, a set of multiple coupled optical…

Laser frequency noise is a dominant noise background for the detection of gravitational waves using long-baseline optical interferometry. Amelioration of this noise requires near simultaneous strain measurements on more than one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-30 Peter W. Graham , Jason M. Hogan , Mark A. Kasevich , Surjeet Rajendran

Traditional land vehicle gravity measurement heavily rely on high-precision satellite navigation positioning information. However, the operational range of satellite navigation is limited, and it cannot maintain the required level of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-10-23 Kefan Zhang , Zhili Zhang , Junyang Zhao , Shenhua Lv

Atomic gravimeters are the most accurate sensors for measuring gravity, yet a significant challenge lies in achieving high precision while also maintaining high dynamic range and robustness. Here, we develop a protocol for achieving robust…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-08 Jinye Wei , Jiahao Huang , Chaohong Lee

Reference systems and frames are crucial for high precision absolute astrometric work, and their foundations must be well-defined. The current frame, the International Celestial Reference Frame, will be discussed: its history, the use of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. B. Fomalont

Interferometers require accurate determination of the array configuration in order to produce reliable observations. A method is presented for finding the maximum-likelihood estimate of the telescope geometry, and of other instrumental…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Klaus Maisinger , M. P. Hobson , Richard D. E. Saunders , Keith J. B. Grainge

Inspiraling binaries of compact objects are primary targets for current and future gravitational-wave observatories. Waveforms computed in General Relativity are used to search for these sources, and will probably be used to extract source…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Michele Vallisneri , Nicolas Yunes

The very recent years have seen a promising start in scientific publications making use of images produced by near-infrared long-baseline interferometry. The technique has reached, at last, a technical maturity level that opens new avenues…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Benisty , J-P. Berger , L. Jocou , P. Labeye , F. Malbet , K. Perraut , P. Kern

A realistic assessment of the uncertainties in the even zonals of a given geopotential model must be made by directly comparing its coefficients with those of a wholly independent solution of superior formal accuracy. Otherwise, a favorable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-07-03 Lorenzo Iorio , Matteo Luca Ruggiero , Christian Corda