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As a space-borne gravitational wave observatory, TianQin can observe a large variety of gravitational wave sources. The rich signals can be composed by different types of astronomical systems, like Galactic compact binaries, inspiral of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-01 Yi-Ming Hu

We investigate the prospects of detecting gravitational waves from coalescing massive black hole binaries in the Universe with the TianQin observatory, a space-based gravitational wave interferometer proposed to be launched in the 2030s. To…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Hai-Tian Wang , Zhen Jiang , Alberto Sesana , Enrico Barausse , Shun-Jia Huang , Yi-Fan Wang , Wen-Fan Feng , Yan Wang , Yi-Ming Hu , Jianwei Mei , Jun Luo

In this work, we study the prospect of detecting the stochastic gravitational-wave background with the TianQin Observatory. We consider sources of both astrophysical-origin and cosmological-origin, including stellar-mass binary black holes,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-01 Zheng-Cheng Liang , Yi-Ming Hu , Yun Jiang , Jun Cheng , Jian-dong Zhang , Jianwei Mei

The paper is a sequel to our previous work (Zhang et al. Phys. Rev. D 103, 062001 (2021)). For proposed geocentric space-based gravitational wave detectors such as TianQin, gLISA, and GADFLI, the gravity-field disturbances, i.e., the so…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-11 Chengjian Luo , Xuefeng Zhang

RX J0806.3+1527 is thought to be a 321s orbital period (the shortest known) double white dwarf binary system. According to the double degenerate binary (DDB) scenario this source is expected to be one of the strongest gravitational wave…

The ESA/NASA joint LISA (laser interferometer space antenna) mission is designed to detect gravitational waves, which relies crucially on maintaining three-spacecraft constellation as close to an equilateral triangle with a designed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-24 Yaguang Yang

TianQin is a space-based gravitational-wave observatory scheduled to be launched in the 2030s. In this work, we make a preliminary forecast for the cosmological parameter estimation with the gravitational-wave standard siren observation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 Ling-Feng Wang , Ze-Wei Zhao , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

In previous work [1], three TAIJI orbital deployments have been proposed to compose alternative LISA-TAIJI networks, TAIJIm (leading the Earth by $20^\circ$ and $-60^\circ$ inclined with respect to ecliptic plane), TAIJIp (leading the Earth…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-09 Gang Wang , Wen-Biao Han

TianQin is a proposed space-based mission for gravitational wave detection, employing a constellation of three drag-free satellites in high Earth orbits to form a laser interferometric observatory. A critical technical challenge is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-21 Yuzhou Fang , Dexuan Zhang , Dezhi Wang , Xuefeng Zhang , Huizong Duan , Hongyin Li , Junxiang Lian , Guoying Zhao

We analyze the trajectories of three geostationary satellites forming the GEOstationary GRAvitational Wave Interferometer (GEOGRAWI)~\cite{tinto}, a space-based laser interferometer mission aiming to detect and study gravitational radiation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-23 Massimo Tinto , Jose C. N. de Araujo , Helio K. Kuga , Marcio E. S. Alves , Odylio D. Aguiar

TianQin and LISA are space-based laser interferometer gravitational wave (GW) detectors planned to be launched in the mid-2030s. Both detectors will detect low-frequency GWs around $10^{-2}\,{\rm Hz}$, however, TianQin is more sensitive to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-04 Alejandro Torres-Orjuela , Shun-Jia Huang , Zheng-Cheng Liang , Shuai Liu , Hai-Tian Wang , Chang-Qing Ye , Yi-Ming Hu , Jianwei Mei

The detection of GW190521 gains huge attention because it is the most massive binary that LIGO and Virgo ever confidently detected until the release of GWTC-3 (GW190426_190642 is more massive), and it is the first black hole merger whose…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-21 Shuai Liu , Liang-Gui Zhu , Yi-Ming Hu , Jian-dong Zhang , Mu-Jie Ji

The study of off-equatorial orbits in razor-thin disks is still in its beginnings. Contrary to what was presented in the literature in recent publications, the vertical stability criterion for equatorial circular orbits cannot be based on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-04-03 Ronaldo S. S. Vieira , Javier Ramos-Caro

The rapid expansion of mega-constellations in low Earth orbits has posed significant challenges to space traffic management, necessitating periodic inspections of satellites to ensure the sustainability of the space environment when…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 An-Yi Huang , Hong-Xin Shen , Zhao Li , Cong Sun , Chao Sheng , Zheng-Zhong Kuai

Localizing the sky position of the gravitational wave source is a key scientific goal for gravitational wave observations. Employing the Fisher information matrix approximation, we compute the angular resolutions of LISA and TianQin, two…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-19 Chao Zhang , Yungui Gong , Hang Liu , Bin Wang , Chunyu Zhang

Galactic double white dwarfs are predominant sources of gravitational waves in the millihertz frequencies accessible to space-borne gravitational wave detectors. With advances in multi-messenger astronomy, an increasing number of double…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-06 Hong-Ming Jin , Bo Ma , Yong Shao , Yan Wang

The detection of gravitational wave (GW) has opened a new window to test the theory of gravity in the strong field regime. In general relativity (GR), GW can only possess two tensor polarization modes, which are known as the $+$ and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-20 Ning Xie , Jian-dong Zhang , Shun-Jia Huang , Yi-Ming Hu , Jianwei Mei

The space-borne gravitational wave (GW) detectors, LISA and TAIJI, are planned to be launched in the 2030s. The dual detectors with comparable sensitivities will form a network observing GW with significant advantages. In this work, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-14 Gang Wang , Wei-Tou Ni , Wen-Biao Han , Peng Xu , Ziren Luo

The recently discovered J0651+2844 is a detached, eclipsing white dwarf binary with an orbital period of 765 s. We investigate the prospects for the detection of gravitational radiation from this system and estimate the effect of the tidal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Matthew Benacquista