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We discuss the potential of the advanced ground-based gravitational-wave detectors such as LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA to detect generic deviations of gravitational waveforms from the predictions of general relativity. We use the parameterized…

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Coalescences of binary neutron stars and/or black holes are amongst the most likely gravitational-wave signals to be observed in ground based interferometric detectors. Apart from the astrophysical importance of their detection, they will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-05-07 T. G. F. Li , W. Del Pozzo , S. Vitale , C. Van Den Broeck , M. Agathos , J. Veitch , K. Grover , T. Sidery , R. Sturani , A. Vecchio

When modified theories of gravity are considered, at most six gravitational wave polarization modes are allowed and classified in tensor modes, the only ones predicted by General Relativity (GR), along with additional vector and scalar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-29 Loris Amalberti , Nicola Bartolo , Angelo Ricciardone

In some beyond-Einstein theories of gravity, gravitational waves can contain up to six polarizations, which are allowed to propagate at different speeds faster than light. These different propagation speeds imply that polarizations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-31 Kristen Schumacher , Colm Talbot , Daniel E. Holz , Nicolás Yunes

Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts that gravitational waves (GWs) are tensor-polarized, with two modes of polarization: plus ($h_+$) and cross ($h_\times$). The unmodeled GW burst analysis pipeline, \textit{BayesWave}, offers…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-03 Yi Shuen C. Lee , Siddhant Doshi , Margaret Millhouse , Andrew Melatos

Alternative theories of gravity predict up to six distinct polarization modes for gravitational waves. Strong gravitational lensing of gravitational waves allows us to probe the polarization content of these signals by effectively…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-03 Ignacio Magaña Hernandez

We propose a generic, phenomenological approach to modifying the dispersion of gravitational waves, independent of corrections to the generation mechanism. This model-independent approach encapsulates all previously proposed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-31 Rhondale Tso , Maximiliano Isi , Yanbei Chen , Leo Stein

We develop a model-independent test of General Relativity that allows for the constraint of the gravitational wave (GW) polarization content with GW detections of binary compact object inspirals. We first consider three modified gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-16 Katerina Chatziioannou , Nicolas Yunes , Neil Cornish

The formalism of the exact six polarization modes of gravitational waves is constructed in terms of both the small metric perturbations and the Newman-Penrose scalars. The obtained formulae are applicable to any metric-compatible gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-19 Young-Hwan Hyun , Yoonbai Kim , Seokcheon Lee

The theory of general relativity (GR) predicts the existence of gravitational waves (GWs) with two tensor modes, while alternative theories propose up to six polarization modes. In this study, we investigate constraints on GW polarization…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-28 Jie Wu , Jin Li

We perform tests of General Relativity (GR) with gravitational waves (GWs) from the inspiral stage of compact binaries using a theory-independent framework, which adds generic phase corrections to each multipole of a GR waveform model in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-05 Ajit Kumar Mehta , Alessandra Buonanno , Roberto Cotesta , Abhirup Ghosh , Noah Sennett , Jan Steinhoff

Two polarization modes of gravitational wave are derived from the general relativity which are plus and cross modes. However, the alternative theories of gravity can yield the gravitational wave with up to six polarizations. Searching for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-17 Gang Wang , Wen-Biao Han

We discussed prospects for directly detecting circular polarization signal of gravitational wave background. We found it is generally difficult to probe the monopole mode of the signal due to broad directivity of gravitational wave…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Naoki Seto

The Advanced LIGO/Virgo interferometers have observed $\sim 100$ gravitational-wave transients enabling new questions to be answered about relativity, astrophysics, and cosmology. However, many of our current procedures for computing these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-14 Noah E. Wolfe , Colm Talbot , Jacob Golomb

We investigate the detectability of massive mode of polarization of Gravitational Waves (GWs) in f(R) theory of gravity associated with Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) sources. We obtain the beam pattern function of Laser Interferometric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-22 P. Prasia , V. C. Kuriakose

In general relativity, a gravitational wave has two polarization modes (tensor mode), but it could have additional polarizations (scalar and vector modes) in the early stage of the universe, where the general relativity may not strictly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Atsushi Nishizawa , Atsushi Taruya , Seiji Kawamura

General relativity predicts the existence of only two tensorial gravitational wave polarizations, while a generic metric theories of gravity can possess up to four additional polarizations, including two vector and two scalar ones. These…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-12 Shaoqi Hou , Xi-Long Fan , Tao Zhu , Zong-Hong Zhu

Gravitational wave astronomy has tremendous potential for studying extreme astrophysical phenomena and exploring fundamental physics. The waves produced by binary black hole mergers will provide a pristine environment in which to study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Neil Cornish , Laura Sampson , Nico Yunes , Frans Pretorius

The two independent ``plus" and ``cross" polarization waveforms associated with the gravitational waves emitted by inspiralling, non-spinning, compact binaries are presented, ready for use in the data analysis of signals received by future…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Luc Blanchet , Bala R. Iyer , Clifford M. Will , Alan G. Wiseman

The detection of the gravitational wave events GW150914, GW151226, LVT 151012 and GW170104 by the Advanced LIGO antennas has opened a new possibility for the study of fundamental physics of gravitational interaction. We suggest a new method…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-29 L. E. Fesik , Yu. V. Baryshev , V. V. Sokolov , G. Paturel