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Cosmological gravitational-wave backgrounds are an exciting science target for next-generation ground-based detectors, as they encode invaluable information about the primordial Universe. However, any such background is expected to be…

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This document presents a ray-optics analysis of the response of a two-element radio interferometer to the presence of a plane gravitational wave. A general expression for the differential phase observed between the two receiving stations as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Kipp Cannon

High-frequency gravitational waves can be detected by observing the frequency modulation they impart on photons. We discuss fundamental limitations to this method related to the fact that it is impossible to construct a perfectly rigid…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-12 Torsten Bringmann , Valerie Domcke , Elina Fuchs , Joachim Kopp

The inspiral and merger of two orbiting black holes is among the most promising sources for the first (hopefully imminent) direct detection of gravitational waves (GWs), and measurements of these signals could provide a wealth of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-18 Mark Hannam

The potential of compressed sensing for obtaining sparse time-frequency representations for gravitational wave data analysis is illustrated by comparison with existing methods, as regards i) shedding light on the fine structure of noise…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-16 Paolo Addesso , Maurizio Longo , Stefano Marano , Vincenzo Matta , Maria Principe , Innocenzo M. Pinto

Pulsar timing array projects are carrying out high precision observations of millisecond pulsars with the aim of detecting ultra-low frequency (~ 10^{-9} to 10^{-8} Hz) gravitational waves. We show how unambiguous detections of such waves…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 George Hobbs

In the next few years, the first detections of gravity-wave signals using Earth-based interferometric detectors will begin to provide precious new information about the structure and dynamics of compact bodies such as neutron stars. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 Michele Vallisneri

Graph Signal Processing generalizes classical signal processing to signal or data indexed by the vertices of a weighted graph. So far, the research efforts have been focused on static graph signals. However numerous applications involve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Francesco Grassi , Nathanael Perraudin , Benjamin Ricaud

Gravitational waves detected by advanced ground-based detectors have allowed studying the universe in a way which is fully complementary to electromagnetic observations. As more sources are detected, it will be possible to measure…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-25 Salvatore Vitale , Chris Whittle

The radio skies remain mostly unobserved when it comes to transient phenomena. The direct detection of gravitational waves will mark a major milestone of modern astronomy, as an entirely new window will open on the universe. Two apparently…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-14 V. Predoi , J. Clark , T. Creighton , E. Daw , S. Fairhurst , I. S. Heng , J. Kanner , T. Regimbau , P. Shawhan , X. Siemens , P. Sutton , A. Vecchio , D. White , G. Woan

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

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

The present operation of the ground-based network of gravitational-wave laser interferometers in "enhanced" configuration brings the search for gravitational waves into a regime where detection is highly plausible. The development of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 John Veitch , Alberto Vecchio

The millihertz gravitational wave band is expected to be opened by space-borne detectors like TianQin. Various mechanisms can produce short outbursts of gravitational waves, whose actual waveform can be hard to model. In order to identify…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-15 Zheng Wu , Hui-Min Fan , Yi-Ming Hu , Ik Siong Heng

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

Gravitational waves from inspiraling sub-solar mass compact objects would provide almost definitive evidence for the existence of primordial black holes. In this chapter, we explain why these exotic objects are interesting candidates for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-05 Andrew L. Miller

Continuous gravitational waves represent one of the long-sought types of signals that have yet to be detected. Due to their small amplitude, long observational datasets (months-years) have to be analyzed together, thereby vastly increasing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-22 P. B. Covas , R. Prix

Gravitational waves (GWs) are fluctuations in the fabric of spacetime predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity. Using a collection of millisecond pulsars as high-precision clocks, the nanohertz band of this radiation is likely…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 P. Demorest , J. Lazio , A. Lommen

Recent proposals for space-borne gravitational wave detectors based on atom interferometry rely on extremely narrow single-photon transition lines as featured by alkaline-earth metals or atomic species with similar electronic configuration.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-11-04 S Loriani , D Schlippert , C Schubert , S Abend , H Ahlers , W Ertmer , J Rudolph , J M Hogan , M A Kasevich , E M Rasel , N Gaaloul

In the coming years, third-generation detectors such as Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer will enter the network of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors. Their current design predicts a significantly improved sensitivity band with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-21 Justin Janquart , Tomasz Baka , Anuradha Samajdar , Tim Dietrich , Chris Van Den Broeck