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The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) has led to a deeper understanding of binaries of ordinary astrophysical objects, including neutron stars and black holes. In this work, we point out that binary systems may also exist in a dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-22 Yang Bai , Sida Lu , Nicholas Orlofsky

A quasi-spherical approximation scheme, intended to apply to coalescing black holes, allows the waveforms of gravitational radiation to be computed by integrating ordinary differential equations.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 Sean A. Hayward

The existence of scalar fields can be probed by observations of stochastic gravitational waves. Scalar fields mediate attractive forces, usually stronger than gravity, on the length scales shorter than their Compton wavelengths, which can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-11 Marcos M. Flores , Alexander Kusenko , Misao Sasaki

Gravitational waves are produced by orbiting massive binary objects, such as black holes and neutron stars, and propagate as ripples in the very fabric of spacetime. As the waves carry off orbital energy, the two bodies spiral into each…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-20 Dillon Buskirk , Maria C. Babiuc Hamilton

We consider colliding wave packets consisting of hybrid mixtures of electromagnetic, gravitational and scalar waves. Irrespective of the scalar field, the electromagnetic wave still reflects from the gravitational wave. Some reflection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ozay Gurtug , Mustafa Halilsoy , Ozlem Unver

The hypothesis of an alternative way of obtaining gravitational waves is the physical motivation of this article. Using the linear field approximation and a symmetry transformation of the affine connection, new field equations and new gauge…

General Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Sergio Giardino

Compact binary systems with spinning components are considered. Finite size effects due to rotational deformation are taken into account. The dynamical evolution and next to leading order gravitational wave forms are calculated, taking into…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Dörte Hansen

1. Introduction 2. Basics and outline of the method 2.1 Regions around an isolated source 2.2 The quadrupole formalism 2.3 Outline of the method 3. Properties of radiative gravitational fields 3.1 The field in the exterior domain (D_e) 3.2…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Luc Blanchet

A formalism is introduced which may describe both standard linearized waves and gravitational waves in Isaacson's high-frequency limit. After emphasizing main differences between the two approximation techniques we generalize the Isaacson…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Jiri Podolsky , Otakar Svitek

We discuss the propagation of gravitational waves in a recently discussed class of theories containing N >= 2 metric tensors and a corresponding number of standard model copies. Using the formalism of gauge-invariant linear perturbation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-04-24 Manuel Hohmann

Exact plane gravitational radiation fields are presented within the framework of general relativity and their properties are described. The physics of nonlinear elliptically polarized plane gravitational waves is developed in close analogy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-14 Masoud Molaei , Shant Baghram , Bahram Mashhoon

Gravitational wave observations have significantly broadened our capacity to explore fundamental physics beyond the Standard Model, providing crucial insights into dark matter that are inaccessible through conventional methods. Here, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-21 Jeong Han Kim , Xing-Yu Yang

We show that gravitational waves can act as waveguides for electromagnetic radiation, that is if the latter is initially aligned with the gravitational waves, then the alignment will survive during the propagation. The analysis is performed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-21 A. A. Kocharyan , M. Samsonyan , V. G. Gurzadyan

By making use of the weak gravitational field approximation, we obtain a linearized solution of the gravitational vacuum field equation in an anisotropic spacetime. The plane-wave solution and dispersion relation of gravitational wave is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-04-03 Xin Li , Zhe Chang

Using effective field theoretical methods, we show that besides the already observed gravitational waves, quantum gravity predicts two further massive classical fields leading to two new massive waves. We set a limit on the masses of these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Xavier Calmet , Boris Latosh

Gravitational waves act like lenses for the light propagating through them. This phenomenon is described using the vector formalism employed for ordinary gravitational lenses, which was proved to be applicable also to a non-stationary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Valerio Faraoni

We consider the possibility that the massive graviton is a viable candidate of dark matter in the context of bimetric gravity. We first derive the energy-momentum tensor of the massive graviton and show that it indeed behaves as that of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-19 Katsuki Aoki , Shinji Mukohyama

Binary systems of rapidly spinning compact objects, such as black holes or neutron stars, are prime targets for gravitational wave astronomers. The dynamics of these systems can be very complicated due to spin-orbit and spin-spin couplings.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Neil J. Cornish , Janna Levin

For a successful detection of gravitational waves by LISA, it is essential to construct theoretical waveforms in a reliable manner. We discuss gravitational waves from an extreme mass ratio binary system which is expected to be a promising…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-26 Yasushi Mino

This paper is a review of a previous research on gravitational waves from the R^-1 high order theory of gravity. It is shown that a massive scalar mode of gravitational waves from the R^-1 theory generates a longitudinal force in addition…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Christian Corda , Maria Felicia De Laurentis