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The prospects for detection of gravitational waves from precessing pulsars have been considered by constructing fully relativistic rotating neutron star models and evaluating the expected wave amplitude $h$ from a galactic source. For a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 J. C. N. de Araújo , J. A. de Freitas Pacheco , J. E. Horvath , M. Cattani

A new gravitational-wave detector, which is devised based on quantum weak measurement amplification, is introduced and shown has the potential to significantly improve the strain sensitivity of gravitational-wave detection.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-16 Meng-Jun Hu , Yong-Sheng Zhang

Searches for gravitational wave signals which do not have a precise model describing the shape of their waveforms are often performed using power detectors based on a quadratic form of the data. A new, optimal method of generalizing these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Julien Sylvestre

The reliability of the first detection is one of the most interesting challenges for the gravitational wave community. To increase the detection confidence, the LIGO and Virgo collaborations have already started coincident observations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-02 Marco Drago

We propose a space-based gravitational wave detector consisting of two spatially separated, drag-free satellites sharing ultra-stable optical laser light over a single baseline. Each satellite contains an optical lattice atomic clock, which…

The direct detection of gravitational waves with the next generation detectors, like Advanced LIGO, provides the opportunity to measure deviations from the predictions of General Relativity. One such departure would be the existence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-24 Maximiliano Isi , Alan J. Weinstein , Carver Mead , Matthew Pitkin

Various models for electromagnetic emissions correlated with the gravitational wave signals expected to be detectable by the current and planned gravitational wave detectors are studied. The position error on the location of a gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Julien Sylvestre

The field of gravitational-wave astronomy has been opened up by gravitational-wave observations made with interferometric detectors. This review surveys the current state-of-the-art in gravitational-wave detectors and data analysis methods…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-10 Sarah Caudill , Shivaraj Kandhasamy , Claudia Lazzaro , Andrew Matas , Magdalena Sieniawska , Amber L. Stuver

We consider in this work continuous gravitational wave (GW) emission from non-axisymmetric radio pulsars. We treat in some detail the observational issues related to the known radio pulsar sample with the aim of unveiling the actual number…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. A. de Freitas Pacheco , J. E. Horvath

Gravitational wave science should transform in this decade from a study of what has not been seen to a full-fledged field of astronomy in which detected signals reveal the nature of cataclysmic events and exotic objects. The LIGO Scientific…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-11 Keith Riles

The detection of gravitational waves by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory opens a new era to use gravitational waves to test alternative theories of gravity. We investigate the polarizations of gravitational waves in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-02 Yungui Gong , Shaoqi Hou

This article reviews the current status of gravitational wave astronomy and explains why astronomers are excited about the new generation of gravitational wave detectors. As part of the review we compare and contrast gravitational radiation…

Physics Education · Physics 2009-11-11 Louis J. Rubbo , Shane L. Larson , Michelle B. Larson , Kristina D. Zaleski

Gravitational lensing of gravitational waves is expected to be observed in current and future detectors. In view of the growing number of detections, computationally light pipelines are needed. Detection pipelines used in past…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-09 Jef Heynen , Soumen Roy , Justin Janquart

The first generation of gravitational wave interferometric detectors has taken data at, or close to, their design sensitivity. This data has been searched for a broad range of gravitational wave signatures. An overview of gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-01-28 Stephen Fairhurst , Gianluca M Guidi , Patrice Hello , John T Whelan , Graham Woan

Multimessenger astronomy incorporating gravitational radiation is a new and exciting field that will potentially provide significant results and exciting challenges in the near future. With advanced interferometric gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-13 N. L. Christensen

Experimental projects using spherical antennas to detect gravitational waves are nowdays a concrete reality. The main purpose of this paper is to give a possible way of interpreting output data from such a system. Responses of the five…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Maria Alice Gasparini

Direct and unequivocal detection of gravitational waves represents a great challenge of contemporary physics and astrophysics. A worldwide effort is currently operating towards this direction, building ever sensitive detectors, improving…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Paola Leaci

Laser interferometer detectors are now widely used in an attempt to detect gravitational waves (gw). The interaction of the gw with the light circulating in the interferometer is usually explained in terms of the motion of the "free"…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-18 Adrian Melissinos , Ashok Das

The construction of a massive (~ 40 ton) spherical antennas for gravitational wave astronomy has been proposed by a number of groups worldwide. Summed over all five quadrupole modes, the sphere has a direction-independent cross section,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-27 Ho Jung Paik

We formulate the data analysis problem for the detection of the Newtonian waveform from an inspiraling compact-binary by a network of arbitrarily oriented and arbitrarily distributed laser interferometric gravitational wave detectors. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Sukanta Bose , Archana Pai , Sanjeev Dhurandhar