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Gravitational wave emission is expected to arise from a variety of astrophysical phenomena. A new generation of detectors with sensitivity consistent with expectation from such sources is being developed. The Laser Interferometer…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Barry C. Barish

In a recent paper we have deduced the basic equations that predict the emission of gravitational waves (GW) according to the Einstein gravitation theory. In a subsequent paper these equations have been used to calculate the luminosities and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-15 M. Cattani

The Matter-Wave laser Interferometer Gravitation Antenna, MIGA, will be a hybrid instrument composed of a network of atom interferometers horizontally aligned and interrogated by the resonant field of an optical cavity. This detector will…

The stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) contains a wealth of information on astrophysical and cosmological processes. A major challenge of upcoming years will be to extract the information contained in this background and to…

LIGO and Virgo have initiated the era of gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy; but in order to fully explore GW frequency spectrum, we must turn our attention to innovative techniques for GW detection. One such approach is to use binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-14 Diego Blas , Alexander C. Jenkins

The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) is a wide-field telescope project focused on detecting optical counterparts to gravitational-wave sources. Each GOTO robotic mount holds eight 40 cm telescopes, giving an overall…

We investigate the capabilities of space-based gravitational-wave detector networks, specifically Taiji and LISA, to measure the anisotropies in stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB), which are characterized by the angular power…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-30 Zhi-Chao Zhao , Sai Wang

We investigate the potential to detect low-frequency gravitational waves (GWs) through their imprints on the proper motions of distant quasars observed by the Gaia mission. Using astrometric data from Gaia DR3, we simulate the effect of GWs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-26 V. Akhmetov , L. Filipello , M. Crosta , M. G. Lattanzi , B. Bucciarelli , U. Abbas , F. Santucci

Recent spectacular results of gravitational waves obtained by the LIGO system, with frequencies in the 100 Hz regime, make corresponding laboratory experiments with full control over cause and effect of great importance. Dynamic…

We present a new idea that allows us to detect gravitational waves without being disturbed by any kind of displacement noise, based on the fact that gravitational waves and test-mass motions affect the propagations of light differently. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Seiji Kawamura , Yanbei Chen

The next generation of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors are likely to observe gravitational waves from the coalescences of compact-objects binaries. We describe the state of the art for predictions of the rate of compact-binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-19 Ilya Mandel , Vicky Kalogera , Richard O'Shaughnessy

Affleck-Dine (AD) baryogenesis is compelling yet challenging to probe because of the high-energy physics involved. We demonstrate that this mechanism can be generically realized with low-energy new physics, without supersymmetry, while…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-30 Yanou Cui , Anish Ghoshal , Pankaj Saha , Evangelos I. Sfakianakis

Gravitational waves in general relativity contain two polarization degrees of freedom, commonly labeled plus and cross. Besides those two tensor modes, generic theories of gravity predict up to four additional polarization modes: two scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-11 Katerina Chatziioannou , Maximiliano Isi , Carl-Johan Haster , Tyson B. Littenberg

Increasing the sensitivity of a gravitational-wave (GW) detector improves our ability to measure the characteristics of detected sources. It also increases the number of weak signals that contribute to the data. Because GW detectors have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-06 Tania Regimbau , Scott A. Hughes

With laser interferometers, LIGO-Virgo collaboration has recently realized the direct detections of the intermediate-frequency (i.e., from dozens to hundreds of Hertz) gravitational waves (GWs) by probing their mechanically-tidal responses.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-19 H. Zheng , L. F. Wei , H. Wen , F. Y. Li

Experiments have revealed that the Fresnel drag effect is not present in RF coaxial cables, contrary to a previous report. This enables a very sensitive, robust and compact detector, that is 1st order in v/c and using one clock, to detect…

General Physics · Physics 2012-05-03 Reginald T. Cahill

As one of the detection targets of all gravitational wave detectors at present, stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) provides us an important way to understand the evolution of our universe. In this paper, we explore the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-22 Bo-Rui Wang , Jin Li , He Wang

In the era of second generation ground-based gravitational wave detectors, short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) will be among the most promising astrophysical events for joint electromagnetic and gravitational wave observation. A targeted search…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-31 A. R. Williamson , C. Biwer , S. Fairhurst , I. W. Harry , E. Macdonald , D. Macleod , V. Predoi

Electromagnetic (EM) follow-up observations of gravitational wave (GW) events will help shed light on the nature of the sources, and more can be learned if the EM follow-ups can start as soon as the GW event becomes observable. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Jing Luan , Shaun Hooper , Linqing Wen , Yanbei Chen

We reanalyze the detection possibilities for gravitational waves arising from cosmological first order phase transitions. We discuss the stochastic gravitational wave background corresponding to the three expected scenarios of phase…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-30 Margot Fitz Axen , Sharan Banagiri , Andrew Matas , Chiara Caprini , Vuk Mandic