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Quantum uncertainty of laser light limits the sensitivity of gravitational-wave observatories. In the past 30 years, techniques for squeezing the quantum uncertainty as well as for enhancing the gravitational-wave signal with optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-03 Mikhail Korobko , Yiqiu Ma , Yanbei Chen , Roman Schnabel

We study a cross-shaped cavity filled with superfluid $^4$He as a prototype resonant-mass gravitational wave detector. Using a membrane and a re-entrant microwave cavity as a sensitive optomechanical transducer, we were able to observe the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-20 V. Vadakkumbatt , M. Hirschel , J. Manley , T. J. Clark , S. Singh , J. P. Davis

Precision observations of orbital systems have recently emerged as a promising new means of detecting gravitational waves and ultra-light dark matter, offering sensitivity in new regimes with significant discovery potential. These searches…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-25 Joshua W. Foster , Diego Blas , Adrien Bourgoin , Aurelien Hees , Míriam Herrero-Valea , Alexander C. Jenkins , Xiao Xue

In this work, we propose a novel experimental set-up using charged resonant gravitational wave detectors. We exploit the semi-classical analogue of the Gertsenshtein effect where the gravitational wave acts as an modulator for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-07 Soham Sen

In this article, which will appear as a chapter in the Handbook of Gravitational Wave Astronomy, we will describe the detection of gravitational waves with space-based interferometric gravitational wave observatories. We will provide an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-27 Jonathan R Gair , Martin Hewitson , Antoine Petiteau , Guido Mueller

We discuss a fast cross-Wigner transform based technique for detecting gravitational wave bursts, and estimating the direction of arrival, using a network of (three) non co-located interferometric detectors. The performances of the detector…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Rocco P. Croce , Vincenzo Pierro , Fabio Postiglione , Maria Principe , Innocenzo M. Pinto

We report a method for coherent control of $\gamma$-photons, enabling the shaping of $\gamma$-ray intensity in nearly arbitrary waveforms. Different intensity waveforms are created by adjusting the motion profile of a resonant absorber (an…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-03-14 Aleš Stejskal , Vlastimil Vrba , Vít Procházka

In this work we present a mathematical model for the mechanical response of the Brazilian Mario SCHENBERG gravitational wave (GW) detector to such waves. We found the physical parameters that are involved in this response assuming a linear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-16 César A. Costa , Odylio D. Aguiar , Nadja S. Magalhães

In a series of axisymmetric core-collapse supernova simulations extending up to $\sim 2\,\mathrm{s}$, we identify a regime of pre-collapse central rotation rates ($\sim 1\,\mathrm{Hz}$) that greatly enhances the emission of gravitational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-24 Marco Cusinato , Martin Obergaulinger , Miguel-Ángel Aloy , José-Antonio Font

We rigorously analyze the frequency response functions and antenna sensitivity patterns of three types of interferometric detectors to scalar mode of gravitational waves which is predicted to exist in the scalar-tensor theory of gravity. By…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-31 Ken-ichi Nakao , Tomohiro Harada , Masaru Shibata , Seiji Kawamura , Takashi Nakamura

Following the upgrades to Advanced LIGO (aLIGO), measurements were made of the detector suspensions' frequency response characteristics. While most resonant frequencies could be identified with simple mechanical models, such as the fiber…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-08 Orion Sauter , Ninad Bhagwat , John Conklin , D. B. Tanner

We analyze the sensitivities of a geostationary gravitational wave interferometer mission operating in the sub-Hertz band. Because of its smaller armlength, in the lower part of its accessible frequency band ($10^{-4} - 2 \times 10^{-2}$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-19 M. Tinto , J. C. N. de Araujo , O. D. Aguiar , M. E. S. Alves

The first observations by a worldwide network of advanced interferometric gravitational wave detectors offer a unique opportunity for the astronomical community. At design sensitivity, these facilities will be able to detect coalescing…

Gravitational waves imprint apparent Doppler shifts on the frequency of photons propagating between an emitter and detector of light. This forms the basis of a method to detect gravitational waves using Doppler velocimetry between pairs of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Amar C. Vutha

We present a method for detection and reconstruction of the gravitational-wave (GW) transients with the networks of advanced detectors. Originally designed to search for transients with the initial GW detectors, it uses significantly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-17 S. Klimenko , G. Vedovato , M. Drago , F. Salemi , V. Tiwari , G. A. Prodi , C. Lazzaro , K. Ackley , S. Tiwari , C. F. Da Silva Cost- , G. Mitselmakher

A successful experiment combining emission and reception of gravitational waves (GWs) would constitute a premiere of gravity control. However, such experiments manipulating gravity would require to compactly store large amounts of energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-24 A. Füzfa

The detection of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMB) was one of the most important cosmological discoveries of the last century. With the development of interferometric gravitational wave detectors, we may be in a position to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Vincent Corbin , Neil J. Cornish

We investigate the reach of future gravitational wave (GW) detectors in probing inflaton couplings with visible sector particles that can either be bosonic or fermionic in nature. Assuming reheating takes place through perturbative quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-16 Basabendu Barman , Anish Ghoshal , Bohdan Grzadkowski , Anna Socha

We develop here algorithms which allow to find regimes of signal-recycled Fabry-Perot--Michelson interferometer (for example, Advanced LIGO), optimized concurrently for two (binary inspirals + bursts) and three (binary inspirals + bursts +…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-23 I. S. Kondrashov , D. A. Simakov , F. Ya. Khalili , S. L. Danilishin

Previous work on the gravitational-wave background generated in a two-scalar-field cosmological model, in which warm inflation and the dark sector are unified within a single framework, has shown that the resulting spectrum could be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-23 Orlando Luongo , Tommaso Mengoni , Paulo M. Sá