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We analyze the sensitivities of a geostationary gravitational wave interferometer mission operating in the sub-Hertz band. Because of its smaller armlength, in the lower part of its accessible frequency band ($10^{-4} - 2 \times 10^{-2}$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-19 M. Tinto , J. C. N. de Araujo , O. D. Aguiar , M. E. S. Alves

We propose an atom interferometer gravitational wave detector in low Earth orbit (AGIS-LEO). Gravitational waves can be observed by comparing a pair of atom interferometers separated over a ~30 km baseline. In the proposed configuration,…

To investigate in more details of Stellar Abundance and Galactic Evolution (SAGE) and in a huge sample, we are performing a northern sky photometric survey named SAGES with the SAGE photometric system, which consists of 8 filters:…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-16 Jie Zheng , Gang Zhao , Wei Wang , Zhou Fan , Ke-Feng Tan , Chun Li , Fang Zuo

The gravitational wave detector of higher sensitivity and greater bandwidth in kilohertz window is required for future gravitational wave astronomy and cosmology. Here we present a new type broadband high frequency laser interferometer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-15 Meng-Jun Hu , Shuai Zha , Yong-Sheng Zhang

A Sagnac atom interferometer can be constructed using a Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a cylindrically symmetric harmonic potential. Using the Bragg interaction with a set of laser beams, the atoms can be launched into circular orbits,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-26 Zhe Luo , E R Moan , C A Sackett

Gyroscopes play a crucial role in many and diverse applications associated with navigation, positioning, and inertial sensing [1]. In general, most optical gyroscopes rely on the Sagnac effect -- a relativistically induced phase shift that…

Space observatories for gravitational radiation such as LISA are equipped with dedicated on-board instrumentation capable of measuring magnetic fields with low-noise conditions at millihertz frequencies. The reason is that the core…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-18 Ignacio Mateos , Rubén Sánchez-Mínguez , Juan Ramos-Castro

We summarise the scientific and technological aspects of the SAGAS (Search for Anomalous Gravitation using Atomic Sensors) project, submitted to ESA in June 2007 in response to the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 call for proposals. The proposed…

Laser gyroscopes making use of the Sagnac effect have been used as highly accurate rotation sensors for many years. First used in aerospace and defense applications, these devices have more recently been used for precision seismology and in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-01-27 W. Zach Korth , Alastair Heptonstall , Evan D. Hall , Koji Arai , Eric K. Gustafson , Rana X. Adhikari

Gravitational Waves (GWs) have been detected in the $\sim$100 Hz and nHz bands, but most of the gravitational spectrum remains unobserved. A variety of detector concepts have been proposed to expand the range of observable frequencies. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-03 Sebastian Baum , Zachary Bogorad , Peter W. Graham

We describe some new estimates concerning the recently proposed SEE (Satellite Energy Exchange) experiment for measuring the gravitational interaction parameters in space. The experiment entails precision tracking of the relative motion of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. D. Alexeev , K. A. Bronnikov , N. I. Kolosnitsyn , M. Yu. Konstantinov , V. N. Melnikov , A. J. Sanders

Space-based gravitational wave detection is based on the astrodynamical equations derived from gravitational theory to detect changes in distance between spacecraft/celestial bodies and/or their state changes caused by gravitational waves.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-04 Wei-Tou Ni

The direct detection of gravitational waves (GWs) of frequencies above MHz has recently received considerable attention. In this work we present a precise study of the reach of a cubic cavity resonator to GWs in the microwave range, using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-18 Pablo Navarro , Benito Gimeno , Juan Monzó-Cabrera , Alejandro Díaz-Morcillo , Diego Blas

A comparison of analytic calculations and FINESSE simulations of interferometer responses to gravitational wave strain. The response to a gravitational wave is gradually built up from the effect of modulating a space by a gravitational wave…

Optics · Physics 2013-07-01 Charlotte Bond , Daniel Brown , Andreas Freise

The existing high technology laser-beam detectors of gravitational waves may find very useful applications in an unexpected area - geophysics. To make possible the detection of weak gravitational waves in the region of high frequencies of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 L. P. Grishchuk , V. V. Kulagin , V. N. Rudenko , A. Serdobolski

The ring interferometer with zero optical path difference known as Sagnac one is offered with a diffraction splitting of the entering light beam. As the beamsplitter, a transmission holographic Bragg grating is used. Conditions of normal…

Optics · Physics 2015-09-09 E. A. Tikhonov , A. K. Lyamets

Interferometer-based precision measurements have been intensively studied for sensing and metrology over the past half century. In classical optics, the resolution and phase sensitivity of an optical signal are confined by diffraction limit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Byoung S. Ham

We demonstrate an experiment which utilizes a Sagnac interferometer to measure a change in optical frequency of 129 kHz per root Hz with only 2 mW of continuous wave, single mode input power. We describe the measurement of a weak value and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-10 David J. Starling , P. Ben Dixon , Andrew N. Jordan , John C. Howell

We show that the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a powerful instrument in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). LIGO's ability to detect gravitational waves (GWs) from astrophysical sources, such…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-27 Luke Sellers , Alexey Bobrick , Gianni Martire , Michael Andrews , Manfred Paulini

The SAGACE experiment consists of a mm/sub-mm telescope with a 3-m diameter primary mirror, coupled to a cryogenic multi-beam differential spectrometer. SAGACE explores the sky in the 100-760 GHz frequency range, using four…