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This article aims at clarifying the situation about astrophysical sources that might be observed with haloscope experiments sensitive to gravitational waves in the 1-10 GHz band. The GrAHal setup is taken as a benchmark. We follow a very…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-13 Aurélien Barrau , Juan García-Bellido , Thierry Grenet , Killian Martineau

Achieving the demanding sensitivity and bandwidth, envisaged for third generation gravitational wave (GW) observatories, is extremely challenging with a single broadband interferometer. Very high optical powers (Megawatts) are required to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-06 Stefan Hild , Simon Chelkowski , Andreas Freise , Janyce Franc , Nazario Morgado , Raffaele Flaminio , Riccardo DeSalvo

Fermi LAT observations of gamma-ray pulsars can be used to build a pulsar timing array (PTA) experiment to search for gravitational wave (GW) signals at nanohertz frequencies. At those frequencies, the dominant signal is expected to be a…

We propose a space-based interferometer surveying the gravitational wave (GW) sky in the milli-Hz to $\mu$-Hz frequency range. By the 2040s', the $\mu$-Hz frequency band, bracketed in between the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA)…

The black hole merging rates inferred after the gravitational-wave detection by Advanced LIGO/VIRGO and the relatively high mass of the progenitors are consistent with models of dark matter made of massive primordial black holes (PBH). PBH…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-30 Sebastien Clesse , Juan García-Bellido

We make the case for the early development of a Mid-Frequency-Band (MFB) gravitational wave (GW) observatory in geosynchronous orbit (73,000 km arm), optimized for the frequency band 10 mHz to 1 Hz. MFB bridges the science acquisition…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-09 Peter F. Michelson , Robert L. Byer , Sasha Buchman , Ilya Mandel , John Lipa , Shally Saraf

Gravitational Waves (GWs) have been detected in the $\sim$100 Hz and nHz bands, but most of the gravitational spectrum remains unobserved. A variety of detector concepts have been proposed to expand the range of observable frequencies. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-03 Sebastian Baum , Zachary Bogorad , Peter W. Graham

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) represent an exciting frontier in the study of gravitational lensing, due to their brightness, extragalactic nature, and the compact, coherent characteristics of their emission. In a companion work [Kader,…

This letter reports the results of a search for a stochastic background of gravitational waves (GW) at 100 MHz by laser interferometry. We have developed a GW detector, which is a pair of 75-cm baseline synchronous recycling (resonant…

Future missions of gravitational-wave astronomy will be operated by space-based interferometers, covering very wide range of frequency. Search for stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds (GWBs) is one of the main targets for such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Hideaki Kudoh , Atsushi Taruya , Takashi Hiramatsu , Yoshiaki Himemoto

The gravitational waveform of merging binary neutron stars encodes information about extreme states of matter. Probing these gravitational emissions requires the gravitational-wave detectors to have high sensitivity above 1 kHz. Fortunately…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-12 Haixing Miao , Huan Yang , Denis Martynov

We investigate the possibility of measuring the primordial gravitational wave (GW) signal across 21 decades in frequencies, using the cosmic microwave background (CMB), pulsar timing arrays (PTA), and laser and atomic interferometers. For…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 Paolo Campeti , Eiichiro Komatsu , Davide Poletti , Carlo Baccigalupi

Beyond LISA, proposed space-based gravitational wave (GW) missions aim to explore the sub-millihertz to microhertz frequency band, with one key objective being the detection of massive binary black hole (MBBH) mergers across cosmic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-25 Renjie Wang , Yumeng Xu , Gang Wang , Bin Hu , Rong-Gen Cai

We present the results of a search for gravitational waves (GWs) from individual sources using high-cadence observations of PSR J1909\(-\)3744 obtained during an intensive observing campaign with the International Pulsar Timing Array second…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-13 Jing Zou , Jingbo Wang Jianping Yuan , De Zhao , Yirong Wen , Wei Li , Na Wang , Yong Xia

Primordial gravitational waves (GWs) with frequencies > 10^{-15} Hz contribute to the radiation density of the Universe at the time of decoupling of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The effects of this GW background on the CMB and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Tristan L. Smith , Elena Pierpaoli , Marc Kamionkowski

We report an upper bound on the strain amplitude of gravitational wave bursts in a waveband from around 800Hz to 1.25kHz. In an effective coincident observing period of 62 hours, the prototype laser interferometric gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 D. Nicholson

The gravitational wave (GW) spectrum at frequencies above a kHz is a largely unexplored frontier. We show that detectors with sensitivity to single-phonon excitations in crystal targets can search for GWs with frequencies, $\mathrm{THz}…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-18 Yonatan Kahn , Jan Schütte-Engel , Tanner Trickle

We demonstrate the potential of new adaptive optical technology to expand the detection horizon of gravitational-wave observatories. Achieving greater quantum-noise-limited sensitivity to spacetime strain hinges on achieving higher…

TThe detection of gravitational waves from merging binary black holes has led to a bound on the mass of a hypothetical massive carrier of the gravitational interaction predicted by some modified gravity theories (a massive graviton, for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-07 Clifford M. Will

In this work, we search for signatures of gravitational millilensing in Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) in which the source-lens-observer geometry produces two images that manifest in the GRB light curve as superimposed peaks with identical temporal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Zeinab Kalantari , Alaa Ibrahim , Mohammad Reza Rahimi Tabar , Sohrab Rahvar