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We present some new derivations of the effect of a plane gravitational wave on a light ray. A simple interpretation of the results is that a gravitational wave causes a phase modulation of electromagnetic waves. We arrive at this picture…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 Raymond Angélil , Prasenjit Saha

We explore the impact of corrections to the propagation on the waveforms of gravitationally lensed gravitational waves under the geometrical optics approximation, focusing on both uniform cosmological modifications and local modifications…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-03 Hiroki Takeda , Takahiro Tanaka

We discuss polarization of gravitational radiation within the standard framework of linearized general relativity. The recent experimental discovery of gravitational waves provides the impetus to revisit the implications of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-22 Bahram Mashhoon , Sohrab Rahvar

The gravitational constant variation means the breakdown of the strong equivalence principle. As the cornerstone of general relativity, the validity of general relativity can be examined by studying the gravitational constant variation.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-28 Bing Sun , Jiachen An , Zhoujian Cao

The laws of geometric optics and their corrections are derived for scalar, electromagnetic, and gravitational waves propagating in generic curved spacetimes. Local peeling-type results are obtained, where different components of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-08 Abraham I. Harte

Since the first detection of gravitational waves, they have been used to investigate various fundamental problems, including the variation of physical constants. Regarding the gravitational constant, previous works focused on the effect of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-10 Jiachen An , Yadong Xue , Zhoujian Cao , Xiaokai He , Bing Sun

We present a scheme for numerically solving Maxwell's equations in a weakly perturbed spacetime without introducing the usual geometric optics approximation. Using this scheme, we study light propagation through a spherical perturbation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-20 Annamalai P. Shanmugaraj , Erik Schnetter , Sofie Marie Koksbang

The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) propagating through cosmic structures can provide invaluable information on the geometry and content of our Universe, as well as on the fundamental theory of gravity. In order to test possible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-25 Alice Garoffolo , Gianmassimo Tasinato , Carmelita Carbone , Daniele Bertacca , Sabino Matarrese

In many areas of physics, the propagation of wave packets carrying intrinsic angular momentum is generally influenced by spin-orbit interactions. This is the main mechanism behind spin Hall effects, which result in wave packets following…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-11 Lars Andersson , Marius A. Oancea

Probing the polarization of gravitational waves (GWs) would provide an evidence of graviton, indicating the quantization of gravity. Motivated by the next generation of gravitational wave detectors, we make an attempt to study the possible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-08 Qianfan Wu , Weishan Zhu , Longlong Feng

We provide analysis to determine the effects of gravitational waves on electromagnetic waves, using perturbation theory in general relativity. Our analysis is performed in a completely covariant manner without invoking any coordinates. For…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-02 Chan Park , Dong-Hoon Kim

When gravitational waves travel from their source to an observer, they interact with matter structures along their path, causing distinct deformations in their waveforms. In this study we introduce a novel theoretical framework for wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-31 Ginevra Braga , Alice Garoffolo , Angelo Ricciardone , Nicola Bartolo , Sabino Matarrese

Gravitational field can cause a rotation of polarisation plane of light. This phenomenon is known as the gravitational Faraday effect. We study the gravitational Faraday effect of linearly polarised light propagating in the gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-20 Andrey A. Shoom

The extremely high precision of current astronomical observations demands a much better theoretical treatment of relativistic effects in the propagation of electromagnetic signals through variable gravitational fields of isolated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-19 Sergei Kopeikin , Pavel Korobkov

Light undergoes perturbation as gravitational waves pass by. This is shown by solving Maxwell's equations in a spacetime with gravitational waves; a solution exhibits a perturbation due to gravitational waves. We determine the perturbation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-05 Dong-Hoon Kim , Chan Park

In the current work we investigate the propagation of electromagnetic waves in the field of gravitational waves. Starting with simple case of an electromagnetic wave travelling in the field of a plane monochromatic gravitational wave we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. G. Polnarev , D. Baskaran

The diffraction effects on gravitational waves propagating through a stellar cluster are analyzed in the relevant approximation of Fresnel diffraction limit. We find that a gravitational wave scintillation effect - similar to the radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Congedo , F. De Paolis , P. Longo , A. A. Nucita , D. Vetrugno

The gravitational waves (GWs) has been a topic of interest for its versatile capabilities of probing several aspects of cosmology and early Universe. Gravitational lensing enhances further the extent of this sort of waves and upgrade our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-20 Ashadul Halder , Shibaji Banerjee , Debasish Majumdar

The paper gives an introduction to the gravitational radiation theory of isolated sources and to the propagation properties of light rays in radiative gravitational fields. It presents a theoretical study of the generation, propagation,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-07 Luc Blanchet , Sergei Kopeikin , Gerhard Schäfer

Based on the relationship between proper distance and coordinate distance, the geometrical phenomenon caused by the passing gravitational waves can not be observed locally. The electromagnetic wave equations in the background gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-13 Wenyu Wang , Yang Xu