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A milestone of multi-messenger astronomy has been achieved with the detection of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star merger accompanied by observations of several associated electromagnetic counterparts. Joint observations can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-28 Chris Pankow , Eve A. Chase , Scott Coughlin , Michael Zevin , Vassiliki Kalogera

Precision timing of highly stable milli-second pulsars is a promising technique for the detection of very low frequency sources of gravitational waves. In any single pulsar, a stochastic gravitational wave signal appears as an additional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-01 Neil J. Cornish , Laura M. Sampson

Rapid sky localization of gravitational wave sources is crucial to enable prompt electromagnetic follow-ups. In this article, we present a novel semianalytical approach for sky localization of gravitational waves from compact binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-04 Qian Hu , Cong Zhou , Jhao-Hong Peng , Linqing Wen , Qi Chu , Manoj Kovalam

When gravitational waves travel from their source to an observer, they interact with matter structures along their path, causing distinct deformations in their waveforms. In this study we introduce a novel theoretical framework for wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-31 Ginevra Braga , Alice Garoffolo , Angelo Ricciardone , Nicola Bartolo , Sabino Matarrese

Pulsar timing now has a rich history in placing limits on the stochastic background of gravitational waves, and we plan soon to reach the sensitivity where we can detect, not just place limits on, the stochastic background. However, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Andrea N. Lommen

The brightest events in a time series of cosmological transients obey an observation time dependence which is often overlooked. This dependence can be exploited to probe the global properties of electromagnetic and gravitational wave…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 E. Howell , D. Coward , R. Burman , D. Blair

Context. Gamma-ray bursts can be located via arrival time signal triangulation using gamma-ray detectors in orbit throughout the solar system. The classical approach based on cross-correlations of binned light curves ignores the Poisson…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-06 J. Michael Burgess , Ewan Cameron , Dmitry Svinkin , Jochen Greiner

The problem of reconstructing the spatial support of an extended radiating electric current source density in a lossy dielectric medium from transient boundary measurements of the electric fields is studied. A time reversal algorithm is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-09-19 Abdul Wahab , Amer Rasheed , Tasawar Hayat , Rab Nawaz

Like light, gravitational waves can be gravitationally lensed by massive objects along their travel path. Strong lensing produces several images from the same binary coalescence and is forecasted to have a promising rate in ground-based…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-16 Justin Janquart , Otto A. Hannuksela , K. Haris , Chris Van Den Broeck

We derive a simple relationship between the energy emitted in gravitational waves for a narrowband source and the distance to which that emission can be detected by a single detector. We consider linearly polarized, elliptically polarized,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-04-02 Patrick J. Sutton

The geometric optics approximation traditionally used to study the propagation of gravitational waves on a curved background, breaks down in the vicinity of compact and extended astrophysical objects, where wave-like effects like diffusion…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-06 Giulia Cusin , Ruth Durrer , Pedro G. Ferreira

Unlike ground-based gravitational wave detectors, space-based gravitational wave detectors can detect the ringdown signals from massive black hole mergers with large signal-to-noise ratios, help to localize sources and extract their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-01 Chunyu Zhang , Yungui Gong , Chao Zhang

The contribution of gravitational wave (tensor metric) and energy density (scalar metric) fluctuations to the cosmic microwave background polarization is computed by numerically solving the relativistic radiation transfer equations. We find…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Robert Crittenden , Richard L. Davis , Paul J. Steinhardt

Data from gravitational wave detectors are recorded as time series that include contributions from myriad noise sources in addition to any gravitational wave signals. When regularly sampled data are available, such as for ground based and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-23 Neil J. Cornish

When a gravitational wave encounters a massive object along the line of sight, repeated copies of the original signal may be produced due to gravitational lensing. In this paper, we develop a series of new machine-learning based statistical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-09 Giulia Campailla , Marco Raveri , Wayne Hu , Jose María Ezquiaga

We perform direct numerical simulations to compute the net circular polarization of gravitational waves from helical (chiral) turbulent sources in the early Universe for a variety of initial conditions, including driven (stationary) and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-03 Tina Kahniashvili , Axel Brandenburg , Grigol Gogoberidze , Sayan Mandal , Alberto Roper Pol

When a source of gravity waves is conveniently placed between the Earth and some source of light, preferably a pulsating source, the magnitude of time delays induced by the gravity waves could, in optimal situations, be not too far out of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-01 Redouane Fakir

General Relativity predicts only two tensor polarization modes for gravitational waves while at most six possible polarization modes are allowed in general metric theory of gravity. The number of polarization modes is determined by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-08 Chao Zhang , Yungui Gong , Dicong Liang , Chunyu Zhang

Observations of strongly gravitationally lensed gravitational wave (GW) sources provide a unique opportunity for constraining their transverse motion, which otherwise is exceedingly hard for GW mergers in general. Strong lensing makes this…

A new approach to the problem of gravitational waves detection based on simultaneous timing of several pulsars and subsequent expansion of the post-fit timing data into components of different spectral kind (with different spectral indices)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Alexander E. Rodin