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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

Although the general theory of relativity (GR) predicts that gravitational waves (GWs) have exactly the same propagation velocity as electromagnetic (EM) waves, many theories of gravity beyond GR expect otherwise. Accurate measurement of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-06 Tian-Yong Cao , Ankit Kumar , Shu-Xu Yi

Space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors, including LISA, Taiji and TianQin, are able to detect mHz GW signals produced by mergers of supermassive black hole binaries, which opens a new window for GW astronomy. In this article, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-05 Qian Hu , Mingzheng Li , Rui Niu , Wen Zhao

After the discovery of the gravitational waves and the observation of neutrinos of cosmic origin, we have entered a new and exciting era where cosmic rays, neutrinos, photons and gravitational waves will be used simultaneously to study the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-24 G. Torralba Elipe , R. A. Vazquez , E. Zas

Core-collapse supernovae produce copious low-energy neutrinos and are also predicted to radiate gravitational waves. These two messengers can give us information regarding the explosion mechanism. The gravitational wave detection from these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-01 O Halim , C Casentini , M Drago , V Fafone , K Scholberg , C F Vigorito , G Pagliaroli

The Gravitational Wave (GW) universe contains a wealth of sources which, with the proper treatment, will open up the universe as never before. By observing massive black hole binaries to high redshifts, we should begin to explore the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Edward K. Porter

Observations of microlensed gravitational waves (GWs) emanated by compact binary coalescences (CBCs) are essential for studying the mass density distribution in the universe, including black holes and dark matter halos. However, no…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-22 So Tanaka , Gopalkrishna Prabhu , Shasvath J. Kapadia , Teruaki Suyama

Gravitational Waves (GWs) provide a powerful means for cosmological distance estimation, circumventing the systematic uncertainties associated with traditional electromagnetic (EM) indicators. This work presents a model for estimating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-14 Trisha V , Rakesh V , Arun Kenath

Linking the previous research that occurred over the last decades, I will try to provide some objective elements to evaluate the innovation of the joint observation of GW170817 and GRB 170817A and their occurrence detection, in light of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-04 Giuseppina Modestino

Gravitational Wave (GW) observations of coalescing compact binaries will be unique probes of strong-field, dynamical aspects of relativistic gravity. We present a short review of various schemes proposed in the literature to test General…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 K G Arun , Archana Pai

Characterizing the physical properties of the stochastic gravitational waves background (SGWB) is a key step towards identifying the nature of its possible origin. We focus our analysis on SGWB anisotropies. The existence of a non-trivial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-14 Peter Adshead , Niayesh Afshordi , Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni , Matteo Fasiello , Eugene A. Lim , Gianmassimo Tasinato

We are witnessing the dawn of gravitational wave (GW) astronomy. With currently available detectors, observations are restricted to GW frequencies in the range between ${\sim} 10\,\mathrm{Hz}$ and $10\,\mathrm{kHz}$, which covers the…

Gravitational lensing of the microwave background by the intervening dark matter mainly arises from large-angle fluctuations in the projected gravitational potential and hence offers a unique opportunity to study the physics of the dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Takemi Okamoto , Wayne Hu

The detection of B-modes in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization by the BICEP2 experiment, if interpreted as evidence for a primordial gravitational wave background, has enormous ramifications for cosmology and physics. It is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-29 Nora Elisa Chisari , Cora Dvorkin , Fabian Schmidt

Gravitational wave (GW) astronomy offers the potential to probe the wave-optics regime of gravitational lensing. Wave optics (WO) effects are relevant at low frequencies, when the wavelength is comparable to the characteristic lensing time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-06 Giovanni Tambalo , Miguel Zumalacárregui , Liang Dai , Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung

In the third-generation (3G) gravitational-wave (GW) detector era, the multi-messenger GW observation for binary neutron star (BNS) merger events can exert great impacts on exploring the cosmic expansion history. In this work, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-10 Tao Han , Shang-Jie Jin , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

The inspiral and merger of two orbiting black holes is among the most promising sources for the first (hopefully imminent) direct detection of gravitational waves (GWs), and measurements of these signals could provide a wealth of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-18 Mark Hannam

Core-collapse supernovae are fascinating astrophysical objects for multimessenger studies. Gravitational waves (GWs) are expected to play a role in the supernova explosion mechanism, but their modelling is also challenging due to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-10 Odysse Halim , Claudio Casentini , Marco Drago , Viviana Fafone , Kate Scholberg , Carlo Francesco Vigorito , Giulia Pagliaroli

Gravity waves (GW) in the early universe generate B-type polarization in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which can be used as a direct way to measure the energy scale of inflation. Gravitational lensing contaminates the GW signal by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Uros Seljak , Christopher M. Hirata

It is expected that gravitational waves, similar to electromagnetic waves, can be gravitationally lensed by intervening matters, producing multiple instances of the same signal arriving at different times from different apparent luminosity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-14 Rico K. L. Lo , Ignacio Magana Hernandez