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The direct detection of gravitational waves with the next generation detectors, like Advanced LIGO, provides the opportunity to measure deviations from the predictions of General Relativity. One such departure would be the existence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-24 Maximiliano Isi , Alan J. Weinstein , Carver Mead , Matthew Pitkin

The future detection of gravitational wave forces us to consider the many ways in which astrophysics, gravitational wave theory and fundamental theory will interact. In this paper, I summarize some recent work done to develop such an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-12-19 Nicolas Yunes

We analyze the polarization content of gravitational waves in Horndeski theory. Besides the familiar plus and cross polarizations in Einstein's General Relativity, there is one more polarization state which is the mixture of the transverse…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-15 Shaoqi Hou , Yungui Gong , Yunqi Liu

The detection of the first gravitational wave events by the Advanced LIGO Scientific Collaboration has opened a new possibility for the study of fundamental physics of gravitational interaction. This work conducts an analysis of possible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-30 Liudmila Fesik

Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts that gravitational waves (GWs) are tensor-polarized, with two modes of polarization: plus ($h_+$) and cross ($h_\times$). The unmodeled GW burst analysis pipeline, \textit{BayesWave}, offers…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-03 Yi Shuen C. Lee , Siddhant Doshi , Margaret Millhouse , Andrew Melatos

The construction of ready to use templates for gravitational waves from spinning binaries is an important challenge in the investigation of detectable gravitational wave signals. Here we present a method to evaluate the gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 János Majár , Mátyás Vasúth

In this paper, we study polarization modes of gravitational waves in generalized Proca theory in the homogeneous and isotropic Minkowski background. The results show that the polarizations of gravitational waves depend on the parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-21 Yu-Qi Dong , Yu-Qiang Liu , Yu-Xiao Liu

The polarization of electromagnetic waves in the presence of a gravitational wave is analyzed. The rotation of the polarization angle and the Stokes parameters are deduced. A possible application to the detection of stochastic background of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-03 Shahen Hacyan

In a recent paper "Probing gravitational wave polarizations with signals from compact binary coalescences" (arXiv:1710.03794 [gr-qc]) the authors argue that a single detection of gravitational wave by the LIGO-Virgo network is capable to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-21 Anatoly A. Svidzinsky

Gravitational waves generated by the final merger of compact binary systems depend on the structure of the binary's members. If the binary contains neutron stars, measuring such waves can teach us about the properties of matter at extreme…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Scott A. Hughes

Teleparallel theory of gravity and its modifications have been studied extensively in literature. However, gravitational waves has not been studied enough in the framework of teleparallelism. In the present study, we discuss gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-04 Habib Abedi , Salvatore Capozziello

In this paper, we study the properties of gravitational waves in the scalar-tensor-vector gravity theory. The polarizations of the gravitational waves are investigated by analyzing the relative motion of the test particles. It is found that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-19 Yunqi Liu , Wei-Liang Qian , Yungui Gong , Bin Wang

The detection of gravitational wave modes and polarizations could constitute an extremely important signature to discriminate among different theories of gravity. According to this statement, it is possible to prove that higher-order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-28 Salvatore Capozziello , Maurizio Capriolo , Shin'ichi Nojiri

Relations between the kinematical tensors (the expansion, the shear, and the vorticity) and the polarization modes of gravitational waves are studied within the context of metric theories of gravity by considering freely falling test…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-03 Cynthia Maldonado , Francisco Nettel , Pedro A. Sánchez

We determine the possible gravitational wave polarizations in two general classes of teleparallel gravity theories, using the metric and symmetric teleparallel geometries. For this purpose we apply the Newman-Penrose formalism, and find…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-09 Manuel Hohmann

Extended Theories of Gravity are considered as a new approach for solving the infrared and ultraviolet scale problems of the Standard Theory of Gravity (General Relativity). Observational evidence of gravitational waves and subsequent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-16 Sourav Roy Chowdhury , Maxim Khlopov

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

We analyze the propagation and polarization properties of high-frequency gravitational waves in Einstein-\AE ther theory on vorticity-free and slowly-varying backgrounds at both leading and next-to-leading orders within the geometric optics…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-21 Yu-Qi Dong , Shinji Mukohyama , Yu-Xiao Liu

The next generation of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors are likely to observe gravitational waves from the coalescences of compact-objects binaries. We describe the state of the art for predictions of the rate of compact-binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-19 Ilya Mandel , Vicky Kalogera , Richard O'Shaughnessy

The observation of the inspiral and merger of compact binaries by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration has allowed for new tests of Einstein's theory in the extreme gravity regime, where gravitational interactions are simultaneously strong,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-11 Pratik Wagle , Alexander Saffer , Nicolas Yunes