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In massive scalar-tensor gravity, core-collapse supernovae are strong sources of scalar-polarized gravitational waves. These can be detectable out to large distance. The dispersive nature of the propagation of waves in the massive scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-10 Roxana Rosca-Mead , Michalis Agathos , Christopher J. Moore , Ulrich Sperhake

We consider the effects of relaxing the assumption that gravitational waves composing the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) are uncorrelated between frequencies in analyses of the data from Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs). While…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-30 Wayne Hu , Qiuyue Liang , Meng-Xiang Lin , Mark Trodden

Gravitational waves (GWs) are direct probes of cosmological gravity, sensitive to space-time inhomogeneities along their propagation. The presence of massive objects breaks homogeneity and isotropy, allowing for new interactions between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-12 Nicola Menadeo , Serena Giardino , Miguel Zumalacárregui

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

Unresolved and resolved sources of gravitational waves are at the origin of a stochastic gravitational wave background. While the computation of its mean density as a function of frequency in a homogeneous and isotropic universe is standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-19 Giulia Cusin , Cyril Pitrou , Jean-Philippe Uzan

General relativity predicts the existence of only two tensorial gravitational wave polarizations, while a generic metric theories of gravity can possess up to four additional polarizations, including two vector and two scalar ones. These…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-12 Shaoqi Hou , Xi-Long Fan , Tao Zhu , Zong-Hong Zhu

General relativity predicts that gravitational waves are described by two polarisation states: the plus $+$ state and cross $\times$ state. However, alternate theories of gravity allow up to six polarisations. We employ the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-04 Shun Yin Cheung , Lachlan Passenger , Paul D. Lasky , Eric Thrane

In general relativity, a gravitational wave has two polarization modes (tensor mode), but it could have additional polarizations (scalar and vector modes) in the early stage of the universe, where the general relativity may not strictly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Atsushi Nishizawa , Atsushi Taruya , Seiji Kawamura

The detection of gravitational waves by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory opens a new era to use gravitational waves to test alternative theories of gravity. We investigate the polarizations of gravitational waves in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-02 Yungui Gong , Shaoqi Hou

The direct observation of gravitational waves with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo offers novel opportunities to test general relativity in strong-field, highly dynamical regimes. One such opportunity is the measurement of…

Pulsar timing-array correlation measurements offer an exciting opportunity to test the nature of gravity in the cosmologically novel nanohertz gravitational wave regime. The stochastic gravitational wave background is assumed Gaussian and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-23 Reginald Christian Bernardo , Kin-Wang Ng

In this this paper the stochastic background of gravitational waves (SBGWs) is analyzed with the auxilium of the WMAP data. We emphasize that, in general, in previous works in the literature about the SBGWs, old COBE data were used. After…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Christian Corda , Salvatore Capozziello , Mariafelicia De Laurentis

General Relativity (GR) describes gravitation well at the energy scales which we have so far been able to achieve or detect. However, we do not know whether GR is behind the physics governing stronger gravitational field regimes, such as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-09-13 Priscilla Canizares , Jonathan R. Gair , Carlos F. Sopuerta

The direct detection of gravitational waves (GW) from merging binary black holes and neutron stars mark the beginning of a new era in gravitational physics, and it brings forth new opportunities to test theories of gravity. To this end, it…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-30 Atsushi Nishizawa

Accurate waveform models describing the complete evolution of compact binaries are crucial for the maximum likelihood detection framework, testing the predictions of General Relativity (GR) and investigating the possibility of an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-01 Harsh Narola , Soumen Roy , Anand S. Sengupta

We investigate the gravitational waves and their properties in various modified teleparallel theories, such as $f(T), f(T,B)$ and $f(T,T_G)$ gravities. We perform the perturbation analysis both around a Minkowski background, as well as in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-21 Gabriel Farrugia , Jackson Levi Said , Viktor Gakis , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

The cosmological stochastic gravitational-wave background produced by the mildly non-linear evolution of density fluctuations is analyzed, in the frame of an Einstein-de Sitter model, by means of a fully relativistic perturbation expansion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sabino Matarrese , Silvia Mollerach

As an extension of our previous work [J.Qiao, T.Zhu, W.Zhao & A.Wang, arXiv:1909.03815], in this article, we calculate the effects of parity violation on gravitational-wave (GW) waveforms during their propagation in the most general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-06 Wen Zhao , Tao Zhu , Jin Qiao , Anzhong Wang

Gravitational wave (GW) observations probe both a diffuse, stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) as well as individual cataclysmic events such as the merger of two compact objects. The detection and description of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-28 Eleanor Gleave , Andrew Jaffe

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