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Gravitational waves (GWs) are expected to play a crucial role in the development of multimessenger astrophysics. The combination of GW observations with other astrophysical triggers, such as from gamma-ray and X-ray satellites,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-01-28 Eric Chassande-Mottin , Martin Hendry , Patrick J. Sutton , Szabolcs Márka

Gravitational time delays, observed in strong lens systems where the variable background source is multiply-imaged by a massive galaxy in the foreground, provide direct measurements of cosmological distance that are very complementary to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Tommaso Treu , Philip J. Marshall

We analyze the propagation of high-frequency gravitational waves (GW) in scalar-tensor theories of gravity, with the aim of examining properties of cosmological distances as inferred from GW measurements. By using symmetry principles, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-07 Gianmassimo Tasinato , Alice Garoffolo , Daniele Bertacca , Sabino Matarrese

The propagation of gravitational waves (GWs) at cosmological distances offers a new way to test the gravitational interaction at the largest scales. Many modified theories of gravity, usually introduced to explain the observed acceleration…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-13 Maxence Corman , Abhirup Ghosh , Celia Escamilla-Rivera , Martin A. Hendry , Sylvain Marsat , Nicola Tamanini

Gamma-Ray Bursts are likely associated with a catastrophic energy release in stellar mass objects. Electromagnetic observations provide important, but indirect information on the progenitor. On the other hand, gravitational waves emitted…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Alessandra Corsi

Gravitational lensing is the phenomenon where the presence of matter (called a lens) bends the path of light-like trajectories travelling nearby. Similar to the geometric optics limit of electromagnetic waves, gravitational lensing of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-20 Aniruddha Chakraborty , Suvodip Mukherjee

The response of a detector to gravitational wave is a function of frequency. When the time a photon moving around in the Fabry-Perot cavities is the same order of the period of a gravitational wave, the phase-difference due to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-01 Zhe Chang , Chao-Guang Huang , Zhi-Chao Zhao

Black hole lensing and gravitational waves are, respectively, closely dependent of the property of the lens and radiation source. In this letter, a universal relation between them is established for a rotating black hole acting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-26 Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu

The gravitational lensing effect of gravitational waves (GWs) has been extensively discussed as a probe of small-mass dark matter halos, which can provide missing information about dark matter. We propose a multi-band observation of lensed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-25 Katsuya T. Abe , Shun Arai , Ryoto Inui , Takahiro S. Yamamoto , Hirotaka Yarimoto , Shuichiro Yokoyama

General relativity (GR) predicts concordant trajectories for photons and gravitational waves (GW). We propose a new multi-messenger avenue (GW-CMB-CMB) to prove this aspect of fundamental physics by cross-correlating the GW signal of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-25 Suvodip Mukherjee , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Joseph Silk

At nanohertz frequencies gravitational waves (GWs) cause variations in time-of-arrival of pulsar signals potentially measurable via precision timing observations. Here we compute very-low-frequency GW sensitivity constrained by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 Fredrick A. Jenet , J. W. Armstrong , Massimo Tinto

The coherent nature of gravitational wave emanating from a compact binary system makes it possible to detect some interference patterns in two (or more) signals registered simultaneously by the detector. Gravitational lensing effect can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Shaoqi Hou , Pengbo Li , Hai Yu , Marek Biesiada , Xi-Long Fan , Seiji Kawamura , Zong-Hong Zhu

Gravitational wave predicted by General Relativity is the transverse wave of spatial strain. Several gravitational waveform signals from binary black holes and from a binary neutron star system accompanied by electromagnetic counterparts…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-02 Kai Liao , Marek Biesiada , Xi-Long Fan

The first observations by a worldwide network of advanced interferometric gravitational wave detectors offer a unique opportunity for the astronomical community. At design sensitivity, these facilities will be able to detect coalescing…

Gravitational wave transients are caused by some of the most energetic events in the Universe, and a precise location would allow deep examination of the counterpart by electromagnetic waves (telescopes collecting light), the combination of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-07 Kunyang Li , Roy Williams

Gravitational waves (GWs) emitted by binary sources are interesting signals for testing gravity on cosmological scales since they allow measurements of the luminosity distance. When followed by electromagnetic counterparts, in particular,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 Isabela S. Matos , Emilio Bellini , Maurício O. Calvão , Martin Kunz

Galactic nuclei (GNs) are dense stellar environments abundant in gravitational-wave (GW) sources for LIGO, VIRGO, and KAGRA. The GWs may be generated by stellar-mass black hole (BH) or neutron star mergers following gravitational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-03 László Gondán , Bence Kocsis

We have considered the propagation of gravitational waves (GW) in de Sitter space time and how a non-zero value of the cosmological constant might affect their detection in pulsar timing arrays (PTA). If {\Lambda} is different from zero…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-28 Domènec Espriu , Daniel Puigdomènech

On August 17, 2017 the LIGO interferometers detected the gravitational wave (GW) signal (GW170817) from the coalescence of binary neutron stars. This signal was also simultaneously seen throughout the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-15 Sibel Boran , Shantanu Desai , Emre Kahya , Richard Woodard

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