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Gravitational waves (GW) are expected to interact with dark energy and dark matter, affecting their propagation on cosmological scales. In order to model this interaction, we derive a gauge invariant effective equation and action valid for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-29 Antonio Enea Romano

When electromagnetic (or gravitational) waves propagate in the presence of a background magnetic field, a portion of the waves converts into gravitational (or electromagnetic) waves. This phenomenon, known as the (inverse) Gertsenshtein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-21 Ryutaro Tomomatsu , Teruaki Suyama , Paolo Gondolo

We study the generation of gravitational waves (GWs) during a cosmological first-order phase transition (PT) using the recently introduced Higgsless approach to numerically simulate the fluid motion induced by the PT. We present for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-04 Chiara Caprini , Ryusuke Jinno , Thomas Konstandin , Alberto Roper Pol , Henrique Rubira , Isak Stomberg

One of the possible sources of gamma-ray bursts are merging, compact neutronstar binaries. More than 90% of the binding energy of such a binary is released in the form of gravitational waves (GWs) in the last few seconds of the spiral-in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Joachim Moortgat , Jan Kuijpers

We demonstrate analytically that gravitational waves, upon interacting with co-propagating electromagnetic radiation in a plasma, induce distinctive sidebands on the modulated light, thereby providing a detectable signature of their…

General Physics · Physics 2025-05-22 Martin W. McCall , Stefanos Fr. Koufidis

Particles interacting with a prescribed quasimonochromatic gravitational wave (GW) exhibit secular (average) nonlinear dynamics that can be described by Hamilton's equations. We derive the Hamiltonian of this "ponderomotive" dynamics to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-16 Deepen Garg , I. Y. Dodin

The gravitational wave (GW) signal offers a promising window into the dynamics of the early universe. The recent results from the pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) could be the first glimpse of such new physics. In particular, they could point to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-13 Haipeng An , Boye Su , Hanwen Tai , Lian-Tao Wang , Chen Yang

A non-linear gravitational wave imparts gravitational acceleration to all particles that are hit by the wave. We evaluate this acceleration for particles in the pp-wave space-times, and integrate it numerically along the geodesic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-21 J. W. Maluf , J. F. da Rocha-Neto , S. C. Ulhoa , F. L. Carneiro

In the poltergeist mechanism the enhancement of induced gravitational waves (GWs) occurs due to a sudden transition from an early matter-dominated era to the radiation-dominated era. In this work, we calculate the bispectrum of induced GWs…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-01 Han-Wen Hu , Cheng-Jun Fang , Zhen-Min Zeng , Zong-Kuan Guo

Detections of gravitational waves (GWs) since GW150914 has gained a contemporary interest in a potential quantum-classical correspondence between GWs and hypothetical gravitons. One such correspondence theory is stochastic gravity, whereby…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-17 Noah M. MacKay

Brief review of principal ideas in respect of the high frequency gravitational radiation generated and detected in the laboratory condition is presented. Interaction of electro-magnetic and gravitational waves into a strong magnetic field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-27 N. I. Kolosnitsyn , V. N. Rudenko

We present results from numerical simulations of the interaction of internal gravity waves (IGW) with magnetic fields in the radiative interior of the Sun. In this second paper, the waves are forced self-consistently by an overlying…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 T. M. Rogers , K. B. MacGregor

The general-relativistic (GR) magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations for a conductive plasma fluid are derived and discussed in the curved spacetime described by Thorne's metric tensor, i.e., a family of cosmological models with inherent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-16 Kostas Kleidis , Apostolos Kuiroukidis , Demetrios B. Papadopoulos

We investigate the non-linear interaction of a strong Gravitational Wave with the plasma during the collapse of a massive magnetized star to form a black hole, or during the merging of neutron star binaries (central engine). We found that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Loukas Vlahos , George Voyatzis , Demetrios Papadopoulos

The transformation of powerful gravitational waves, created by the coalescence of massive black hole binaries, into electromagnetic radiation in external magnetic fields is revisited. In contrast to the previous calculations of the similar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-19 Alexander Dolgov , Konstantin Postnov

We consider the interaction of a weak gravitational wave with electromagnetic fields in a thin plasma on a Minkowski background spacetime using the 1+3 orthonormal frame formalism. Because gravitational and electromagnetic waves satisfy the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Mattias Marklund , Gert Brodin , Peter Dunsby

The stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) detected recently by the pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) observations may have cosmological origins. In this work we consider a model of single field inflation containing an intermediate phase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-10 Hassan Firouzjahi , Alireza Talebian

We explore a novel process in the early Universe in which thermalized photons are converted into gravitons in the presence of strong primordial magnetic fields. It is found that the frequency of generated gravitational waves (GWs) is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-19 Tomohiro Fujita , Kohei Kamada , Yuichiro Nakai

The evidence of the stochastic gravitational-wave background around the nano-hertz frequency range was recently found by worldwide pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations. One of the cosmological explanations is the gravitational waves…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-27 Keisuke Harigaya , Keisuke Inomata , Takahiro Terada

We present a novel nonlinear mechanism for exciting a gravitational radiation pulse (or a gravitational wave) by dust magnetohydrodynamic (DMHD) waves in dusty astrophysical plasmas. We derive the relevant equations governing the dynamics…

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