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The sensitivities of ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors are limited by quantum shot noise at a few hundred Hertz and above. Nonetheless, one can use a quantum-correlation technique proposed by Martynov, et al. [Phys. Rev. A 95,…

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This article reviews the current status of gravitational wave astronomy and explains why astronomers are excited about the new generation of gravitational wave detectors. As part of the review we compare and contrast gravitational radiation…

Physics Education · Physics 2009-11-11 Louis J. Rubbo , Shane L. Larson , Michelle B. Larson , Kristina D. Zaleski

We quantify the advantages of a recently proposed data processing technique to search for continuous gravitational wave (GW) signals from isolated rotating asymmetric neutron stars in data measured by ground-based GW interferometers. This…

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We study in this paper some filters for the detection of burst-like signals in the data of interferometric gravitational-wave detectors. We present first two general (non-linear) filters with no {\it a priori} assumption on the waveforms to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 N. Arnaud , M. Davier , F. Cavalier , P. Hello

We review the tests of general relativity that will become possible with space-based gravitational-wave detectors operating in the ~0.01mHz - 1Hz low-frequency band. The fundamental aspects of gravitation that can be tested include the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Jonathan R. Gair , Michele Vallisneri , Shane L. Larson , John G. Baker

We evaluate the potential for gravitational-wave (GW) detection in the frequency band from 10 nHz to 1 $\mu$Hz using extremely high-precision astrometry of a small number of stars. In particular, we argue that non-magnetic, photometrically…

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A laser interferometric detector of gravitational waves is studied and a complete solution (to first order in the metric perturbation) of the coupled Einstein-Maxwell equations with appropriate boundary conditions for the light beams is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 F. I. Cooperstock , V. Faraoni

An overview of some tools and techniques being developed for data conditioning (regression of instrumental and environmental artifacts from the data channel), detector design evaluation (modeling the science ``reach'' of alternative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 L. S. Finn , G. Gonzalez , J. Hough , M. F. Huq , S. Mohanty , J. Romano , S. Rowan , P. R. Saulson , K. A. Strain

Gravitational waves at kilohertz and higher frequencies offer a unique probe of the early Universe at temperatures well beyond the reach of the cosmic microwave background, corresponding to energy scales $\gtrsim 10^9$GeV. Existing detector…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-17 Jan Heisig

In this paper, we investigate the sensitivity to additional gravitational wave polarization modes of future detectors. We first look at the upcoming Einstein Telescope and its combination with existing or planned Earth-based detectors in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-20 Lionel Philippoz , Adrian Boîtier , Philippe Jetzer

Gravitational waves imprint apparent Doppler shifts on the frequency of photons propagating between an emitter and detector of light. This forms the basis of a method to detect gravitational waves using Doppler velocimetry between pairs of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Amar C. Vutha

Quantum reflection occurs when ultra-cold atoms are incident on a material surface with sufficiently low velocity. The reflecting matter wave can interfere with the incident wave to form a detectable pattern, and this pattern contains…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-22 J. Boynewicz , C. A. Sackett

Gravitational wave observations offer unique opportunities to probe gravity in the strong and dynamical regime, which was difficult to access previously. We here review two theory-agnostic ways to carry out tests of general relativity with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-19 Zack Carson , Kent Yagi

Space-borne gravitational wave detections raise new questions for heliophysics: how the Sun-Terrestrial space environment affect gravitational wave detection, and to what extent? Space-borne gravitational wave detectors use laser…

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Atom interferometers are promising tools for precision measurement with applications ranging from geophysical exploration to tests of the equivalence principle of general relativity, or the detection of gravitational waves. Their optimal…

With the advent of gravitational-wave astronomy it has now been possible to constrain modified theories of gravity that were invoked to explain the dark energy. In a class of dilaton models, distances to cosmic sources inferred from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-05 Arnab Dhani , Anuradha Gupta , B. S. Sathyaprakash

The advanced gravitational wave (GW) detector network has started {routine detection of } signals from merging compact binaries. Data indicate that in a fair fraction of these sources, at least one component was a neutron star, bringing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-29 Akshat Singhal , Sourav Palit , Suman Bala , Gaurav Waratkar , Harsh Kumar , Varun Bhalerao

The millihertz gravitational wave band is expected to be opened by space-borne detectors like TianQin. Various mechanisms can produce short outbursts of gravitational waves, whose actual waveform can be hard to model. In order to identify…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-15 Zheng Wu , Hui-Min Fan , Yi-Ming Hu , Ik Siong Heng

We calculate and compare the response of light wave interferometers and matter wave interferometers to gravitational waves. We find that metric matter wave interferometers will not challenge kilometric light wave interferometers such as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-10 Pacôme Delva , Marie-Christine Angonin , Philippe Tourrenc

This paper focuses on the next detectors for gravitational wave astronomy which will be required after the current ground based detectors have completed their initial observations, and probably achieved the first direct detection of…