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Over a hundred gravitational-wave signals have now been detected from the mergers of black holes and neutron stars, but other sources of gravitational waves have not yet been discovered. Some of the most violent explosive events in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-24 Jade Powell , Paul D. Lasky

In this work, we study the interaction of the electromagnetic wave (EW) from a distant quasar with the gravitational wave (GW) sourced by the binary stars. While in the regime of geometric optics, the light bending due to this interaction…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-13 Sohrab Rahvar

One of the goals of the current LIGO-GEO-Virgo science run is to identify transient gravitational wave (GW) signals in near real time to allow follow-up electromagnetic (EM) observations. An EM counterpart could increase the confidence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-11-30 Laura K Nuttall , Patrick J Sutton

We suggest that the major fraction of binary mergers, which might provide gravitational wave signal detectable by LIGO/Virgo, emerged from the hidden mirror sector. Mirror particles do not interact with an ordinary observer except…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-03 Revaz Beradze , Merab Gogberashvili , Alexander S. Sakharov

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 simultaneous detection of electromagnetic and gravitational waves from the coalescence of two neutron stars (GW170817 and GRB170817A) has ushered in a new era of "multi-messenger" astronomy, with electromagnetic detections spanning from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-10 Mouza Almualla , Michael W. Coughlin , Shreya Anand , Khalid Alqassimi , Nidhal Guessoum , Leo P. Singer

As technology has improved, binary neutron star systems have been observed more frequently, in fact, the first gravitational wave to have an electromagnetic counterpart originated from the merger of two neutron stars (GW170817). Detecting…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-18 Jeshwanth Mohan

We study the secular evolution and gravitational wave signature of a newly-formed, rapidly rotating neutron star. The neutron star may arise from core collapse in a massive star or from the accretion-induced collapse of a white dwarf. After…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Dong Lai , Stu Shapiro

Gravitational waves (GWs) provide a revolutionary tool to investigate yet unobserved astrophysical objects. Especially the first stars, which are believed to be more massive than present-day stars, might be indirectly observable via the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-20 Tilman Hartwig , Marta Volonteri , Volker Bromm , Ralf S. Klessen , Enrico Barausse , Mattis Magg , Athena Stacy

We review the ensemble of anticipated gravitational-wave (GW) emission processes in stellar core collapse and postbounce core-collapse supernova evolution. We discuss recent progress in the modeling of these processes and summarize most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-19 Christian D. Ott

Gravitational waves (GWs) are fluctuations in the fabric of spacetime predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity. Using a collection of millisecond pulsars as high-precision clocks, the nanohertz band of this radiation is likely…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 P. Demorest , J. Lazio , A. Lommen

The gravitational wave (GW) detection of a binary neutron star inspiral made by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo paves the unprecedented way for multi-messenger observations. The propagation speed of this GW can be scrutinized by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-08 Seokcheon Lee

Low mass neutron stars may be uniquely strong sources of gravitational waves (GW). The neutron star crust can support large deformations for low mass stars. This is because of the star's weaker gravity. We find maximum ellipticities…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-19 C. J. Horowitz

The recent direct detection of gravitational waves (GWs) from binary black hole mergers (2016, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, no. 6, 061102; no. 24, 241103) opens up an entirely new non-electromagnetic window into the Universe making it possible to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 Plamen G. Krastev , Bao-An Li

The first inspiral of two neutron stars observed in gravitational waves was remarkably close, allowing the kind of simultaneous gravitational wave and electromagnetic observation that had not been expected for several years. Their merger,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-11 John L. Friedman , Nikolaos Stergioulas

The groundbreaking discoveries of gravitational waves from binary black-hole mergers and, most recently, coalescing neutron stars started a new era of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics and revolutionized our understanding of the Cosmos. Machine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-08 Plamen G. Krastev

We describe the first observations of the same celestial object with gravitational waves and light. * GW170817 was the first detection of a neutron star merger with gravitational waves. * The detection of a spatially coincident weak burst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-01 Raffaella Margutti , Ryan Chornock

The future gravitational wave (GW) observations of compact binaries and their possible electromagnetic counterparts may be used to probe the nature of the extra dimension. It is widely accepted that gravitons and photons are the only two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-23 Hao Yu , Bao-Min Gu , Fa Peng Huang , Yong-Qiang Wang , Xin-He Meng , Yu-Xiao Liu

Gravitational wave astronomy opened dramatically in September 2015 with the LIGO discovery of a distant and massive binary black hole coalescence. The more recent discovery of a binary neutron star merger, followed by a gamma ray burst and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-20 Keith Riles

Recently, the possibility has emerged of an early detection of astrophysical gravity waves. In certain astronomical configurations, and through a new light-deflection effect, gravity waves can cause apparent shifts in stellar angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Redouane Fakir