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We propose a new antenna configuration of a torsion-bar antenna (TOBA) and study its performance. A TOBA is a novel type of an antenna for low-frequency gravitational waves (GWs) which consists of two bar-shaped orthogonal test masses.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-01 Kazunari Eda , Ayaka Shoda , Yousuke Itoh , Masaki Ando

The Torsion-Bar Antenna (TOBA) is a torsion pendulum-based gravitational detector developed to observe gravitational waves in frequencies between 1 mHz and 10 Hz. The low resonant frequency of the torsion pendulum enables observation in…

Expanding the observational frequency of gravitational waves is important for the future of astronomy. Torsion-Bar Antenna (TOBA) is a mid-frequency and low-frequency gravitational wave detector using a torsion pendulum. The low resonant…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-02-04 Tomofumi Shimoda , Satoru Takano , Ching Pin Ooi , Naoki Aritomi , Ayaka Shoda , Yuta Michimura , Masaki Ando

We have set a new upper limit on the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) using two prototype Torsion-bar Antennas (TOBAs). TOBA is a low-frequency gravitational-wave detector with bar-shaped test masses rotated by the tidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-28 Ayaka Shoda , Masaki Ando , Koji Ishidoshiro , Kenshi Okada , Wataru Kokuyama , Yoichi Aso , Kimio Tsubono

We set the first upper limit on the stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background in the frequency range of $1-5\,\mathrm{Hz}$ using a Torsion-bar Antenna (TOBA). A TOBA is a GW detector designed for the detection of low frequency GWs on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Yuya Kuwahara , Ayaka Shoda , Kazunari Eda , Masaki Ando

A torsion-bar antenna (TOBA) is a low-frequency terrestrial gravitational wave (GW) antenna which consists of two orthogonal bar-shaped test masses. We upgraded the prototype TOBA and achieved the strain sensitivity $10^{-10}$ Hz$^{-1/2}$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-02 Kazunari Eda , Ayaka Shoda , Yuya Kuwahara , Yousuke Itoh , Masaki Ando

Torsion-Bar Antenna (TOBA) is a ground-based gravitational wave detector using torsion pendulums. TOBA can detect intermediate-mass black hole binary mergers, gravitational wave stochastic background, and Newtonian noise, and is useful for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-07-29 Yuka Oshima , Satoru Takano , Ching Pin Ooi , Yuta Michimura , Masaki Ando

With the planning of new ambitious gravitational wave (GW) observatories, fully controlled laboratory experiments on dynamic gravitation become more and more important. Such new experiments can provide new insights in potential dynamic…

A brief history and various themes of mid-frequency gravitational wave detection are presented more or less following historical order -- Laser Interferometry, Atom Interferometry (AI), Torsion Bar Antenna (TOBA), and Superconducting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-14 Wei-Tou Ni

We present the first upper limit on gravitational wave (GW) backgrounds at an unexplored frequency of 0.2 Hz using a torsion-bar antenna (TOBA). A TOBA was proposed to search for low-frequency GWs. We have developed a small-scaled TOBA and…

Apart from omnidirectional, a solid elastic sphere is a natural multimode and multifrequency device for the detection of Gravitational Waves (GW). Motion sensing in a spherical GW detector thus requires a multiple set of transducers…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Alberto Lobo , M. Angeles Serrano

We propose a method for separating and detecting the non-tensor modes of stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds (SGWBs) using networks of space-based gravitational-wave detectors. We consider four distinct data-reconstruction schemes for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-24 Bo Mu , Zong-Kuan Guo

Gravitational Waves (GWs) provide a unique way to explore our Universe. The ongoing ground-based detectors, e.g., LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA, and the upcoming next-generation detectors, e.g., Cosmic Explorer and Einstein Telescope, as well as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-02 Zhenwei Li , Xuefei Chen

Space-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors will open the millihertz band to survey ultra-compact binaries (UCBs). \textit{Verification binaries} (VBs) is a key to verifying the performance of space-based GW detectors because its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-03 Zi-Heng Yu , Sen Yang , Liangliang Ren , Shun-Jia Huang

We investigate the sensitivity of a torsion-bar gravitational-wave detector to Yukawa-type deviations from Newtonian gravity using a differential gravitational calibrator (GCal), where two rotating mass systems cancel the leading Newtonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-14 Yuki Inoue , Hsiang-Yu Huang , Vivek Kumar , Daiki Tanabe

The gravitational wave (GW) has opened a new window to the universe beyond the electromagnetic spectrum. Since 2015, dozens of GW events have been caught by the ground-based GW detectors through laser interferometry. However, all the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-07 Mengxu Liu , Biping Gong

The mechanism for gamma ray bursters and the detection of gravitational waves (GWs) are two outstanding problems facing modern physics. Many models of gamma ray bursters predict copious GW emission, so the assumption of an association…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. T. Murphy , J. K. Webb , I. S. Heng

We present the full implementation of a room-temperature gravitational wave bar detector equipped with an opto-mechanical readout. The mechanical vibrations are read by a Fabry--Perot interferometer whose length changes are compared with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Conti , M. De Rosa , F. Marin , L. Taffarello , M. Cerdonio

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
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