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We investigate bound and periodic timelike geodesics and their associated gravitational-wave (GW) signatures in the spacetime of a regular black hole arising in asymptotically safe gravity (ASG). The geometry incorporates quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-11 Arun Kumar , Abolhassan Mohammadi , Sushant G. Ghosh

Gravitational waves (GW), as light, are gravitationally lensed by intervening matter, deflecting their trajectories, delaying their arrival and occasionally producing multiple images. In theories beyond general relativity (GR), new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-04 Jose María Ezquiaga , Miguel Zumalacárregui

We present a catalog of gravitational wave background (GWB) signal templates from cosmic-string networks, based on relevant models proposed in the literature. We classify templates as conventional, based on standard cosmology and Nambu-Goto…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-08 Androniki Dimitriou , Daniel G. Figueroa , Peera Simakachorn , Bryan Zaldivar

We revisit gravitational wave (GW) memory as the key to measuring spacetime symmetries, extending beyond its traditional role in GW searches. In particular, we show how these symmetries may be probed via displacement and spin memory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-17 Boris Goncharov , Laura Donnay , Jan Harms

Crosscorrelation of the outputs of two Gravitational Wave (GW) detectors has recently been proposed [1] as a method for detecting statistical association between GWs and Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs). Unfortunately, the method can be effectively…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Modestino , A. Moleti

The future space-based gravitational wave observatory LISA is expected to detect massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) with high signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs), ranging up to thousands. Such high-precision observations require accurate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-15 Tom van der Steen , Henri Inchauspé , Thomas Hertog , Aurélien Hees

Joint gravitational-wave (GW) and $\gamma$-ray burst (GRB) observations are among the best prospects for standard siren cosmology. However, the strong selection effect for the coincident GRB detection, which is possible only for sources…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-12 Michele Mancarella , Francesco Iacovelli , Stefano Foffa , Niccolò Muttoni , Michele Maggiore

We examined the output of a quantum Michelson interferometer incorporating the combined effects of nonlinear optomechanical interaction and time-varying gravitational fields. Our findings indicate a deviation from the standard relationship…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-08 Zhong-Kai Guo , Xiao-Yong Wang

Modified gravitational wave propagation is a smoking gun of modifications of gravity at cosmological scales, and can be the most promising observable for testing such theories. The observation of gravitational waves (GW) in recent years has…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-18 Francesco Iacovelli , Andreas Finke , Stefano Foffa , Michele Maggiore , Michele Mancarella

In this work, using the Gaussian Process, we explore the potentiality of future gravitational wave (GW) measurement to probe cosmic opacity through comparing its opacity-free luminosity distance (LD) with the opacity-dependent one from type…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-22 Lu Zhou , Xiangyun Fu , Zhaohui Peng , Jun Chen

In light of the newly opened and rapidly growing gravitational waves window in multi-messenger astronomy, in order to fully take advantage of the new opportunities we are provided with, new ideas are required for a better and deeper employ…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-06 Paolo Cremonese , Vincenzo Salzano

In this paper we provide a comprehensive derivation of the energy density in the stochastic gravitational-wave background $\Omega_\mathrm{gw}(f)$, and show how this quantity is measured in ground-based detectors such as Laser Interferometer…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-04 Chiara M. F. Mingarelli , Stephen R. Taylor , B. S. Sathyaprakash , Will M. Farr

Gravitational memory effects and the BMS freedoms exhibited at future null infinity have recently been resolved and utilized in numerical relativity simulations. With this, gravitational wave models and our understanding of the fundamental…

Electromagnetic methods recently proposed for detecting gravitational waves modify the Michelson phase shift analysis (historically employed for special relativity). We suggest that a frequency modulation analysis is more suited to general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Sivasubramanian , Y. N. Srivastava , A. Widom

Gravitational lensing offers a powerful tool for exploring the matter distribution in the Universe. Thanks to their low frequencies and phase coherence, gravitational waves (GWs) allow for the observation of novel wave-optics features…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-30 Guilherme Brando , Srashti Goyal , Stefano Savastano , Hector Villarrubia-Rojo , Miguel Zumalacárregui

We study the propagation of cosmological gravitational wave (GW) backgrounds from the early radiation era until the present day in modified theories of gravity. Comparing to general relativity (GR), we study the effects that modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-21 Yutong He , Alberto Roper Pol , Axel Brandenburg

Space-borne gravitational wave detectors, such as the proposed Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, are expected to observe black hole coalescences to high redshift and with large signal-to-noise ratios, rendering their gravitational waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-29 Nicolas Yunes , Frans Pretorius , David Spergel

LIGO's detection of gravitational waves marks a first step in measurable effects of general relativity on quantum matter. In its current operation, laser interferometer gravitational-wave detectors are already quantum limited at high…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 Belinda Pang , Yanbei Chen

Gravitational lensing provides an efficient tool for the investigation of matter structures, independent of the dynamical or hydrostatic equilibrium properties of the deflecting system. However, it depends on the kinematic status. In fact,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Sereno

Gravitational wave oscillations arise from the exchange of energy between the metric perturbations and additional tensor modes. This phenomenon can occur even when the extra degrees of freedom consist of a triplet of massive Abelian vector…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-13 Gabriel Gomez , Jose F. Rodriguez