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In our previous paper \cite{PTA1} we derived a generic expression for the pulse redshift the main observable for the Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) experiment for detection of gravitational waves for all possible polarizations induced by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-31 Adrian Boîtier , Shubhanshu Tiwari , Philippe Jetzer

The first direct observation of gravitational waves' action upon matter has recently been reported by the BICEP2 experiment. Advanced ground-based gravitational-wave detectors are being installed. They will soon be commissioned, and then…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-06 Scott A. Hughes

In testing gravity a model-independent way, one of crucial tests is measuring the propagation speed of a gravitational wave (GW). In general relativity, a GW propagates with the speed of light, while in the alternative theories of gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-22 Atsushi Nishizawa

Modified gravitational wave (GW) propagation is a generic phenomenon in modified gravity. It affects the reconstruction of the redshift of coalescing binaries from the luminosity distance measured by GW detectors, and therefore the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-29 Andreas Finke , Stefano Foffa , Francesco Iacovelli , Michele Maggiore , Michele Mancarella

Dissipation is an intrinsic property of the cosmic fluid, leading to the damping of curvature perturbations at small scales. In this paper, we comprehensively study dissipative effects in gravitational waves induced by curvature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-09 Yan-Heng Yu , Zhe Chang , Sai Wang

In a recent paper [Ruffa] it was proposed that the massive black hole at the Galactic center may act as a gravitational lens focusing gravitational wave energy to the Earth. Considering the gravitational wave signal emitted by galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. De Paolis , G. Ingrosso , A. A. Nucita , A. Qadir

The effect of gravitational lensing on cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies is investigated using the power spectrum approach. The lensing effect can be calculated in any cosmological model by specifying the evolution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Uros Seljak

General relativity predicts that gravitational waves propagate at the speed of light. Although ground-based gravitational-wave detectors have successfully constrained the velocity of gravitational waves in the high-frequency range,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-28 Yan-Chen Bi , Yu-Mei Wu , Zu-Cheng Chen , Qing-Guo Huang

Observed angular positions and redshifts of large-scale structure tracers such as galaxies are affected by gravitational waves through volume distortion and magnification effects. Thus, a gravitational wave background can in principle be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Donghui Jeong , Fabian Schmidt

Several observational phenomena suggest that the standard model of cosmology and particle physics requires revision. To address this, we consider the extension of general relativity known as massive gravity (MG). In this Letter, we explore…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-04 Chris Choi , Tina Kahniashvili

An exact solution for the expansion of a flat universe with dark energy evolving according to a simple model is explored. The equation for weak primordial gravitational waves propagating in this universe is solved and explored;…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-19 Edmund Schluessel

Just like light, gravitational waves (GWs) are deflected and magnified by gravitational fields as they propagate through the Universe. However, their low frequency, phase coherence and feeble coupling to matter allow for distinct lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-29 Giovanni Tambalo , Miguel Zumalacárregui , Liang Dai , Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung

The radio skies remain mostly unobserved when it comes to transient phenomena. The direct detection of gravitational waves will mark a major milestone of modern astronomy, as an entirely new window will open on the universe. Two apparently…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-14 V. Predoi , J. Clark , T. Creighton , E. Daw , S. Fairhurst , I. S. Heng , J. Kanner , T. Regimbau , P. Shawhan , X. Siemens , P. Sutton , A. Vecchio , D. White , G. Woan

Astrophysical bounds severely limit the possibility of observing collider signals of gravity with less than 3 flat extra dimensions. However, small distortions of the compactified space can lift the masses of the lightest graviton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-23 Gian F. Giudice , Tilman Plehn , Alessandro Strumia

It is a fact that the universe lives on a Gravitational Wave Background (GWB), which it may be in the form of extra energy, which is not contained in Einstein's field equations. In \cite{Matos:2021jef}, a new model was developed to explain…

General Physics · Physics 2024-04-02 Tonatiuh Matos , Luis A. Escamilla , Maribel Hernández , J. Alberto Vázquez

Pulsar timing experiments are reaching sufficient sensitivity to detect a postulated stochastic gravitational wave background generated by merging supermassive black hole systems in the cores of galaxies. We describe the techniques behind…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 G. Hobbs

Gravitational wave (GW) experiments have transformed our understanding of the Universe by enabling direct observations of compact object mergers and other astrophysical phenomena. This chapter reviews the concepts of GW detectors, such as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-02 Elisa Bigongiari , Matteo Di Giovanni , Giovanni Losurdo

Overlapping gravitational wave (GW) signals are expected in the third-generation (3G) GW detectors, leading to one of the major challenges in GW data analysis. Inference of overlapping GW sources is complicated - it has been reported that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-08 Qian Hu

I define here a novel function on a modeled space of gravitational-wave signals, before studying its properties as a statistic for detection, as an objective function for identification, and as an effective likelihood function for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-30 Alvin J. K. Chua

We study the effects of oscillating, ultralight scalar and pseudoscalar fields on the propagation of gravitational waves (GWs). We consider two potential couplings of the (pseudo)scalars to gravity; a parity-even Gauss-Bonnet coupling, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-02 Leah Jenks , Marc Kamionkowski