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The propagation of high-frequency gravitational waves can be analyzed using the geometrical optics approximation. In the case of large but finite frequencies, the geometrical optics approximation is no longer accurate, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-03 Lars Andersson , Jérémie Joudioux , Marius A. Oancea , Ayush Raj

Gravitational waves (GWs) are direct probes of cosmological gravity, sensitive to space-time inhomogeneities along their propagation. The presence of massive objects breaks homogeneity and isotropy, allowing for new interactions between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-12 Nicola Menadeo , Serena Giardino , Miguel Zumalacárregui

We develop an effective approach for the study of the interaction of gravitational waves (GWs) and electromagnetic waves (EMWs), showing that quadrirefringence can be produced, a phenomenon consisting in a frequency and polarization…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-10 Antonio Enea Romano , Sergio A. Vallejo-Peña

The possibility that the strength of gravitational interactions might slowly increase with distance, is explored by formulating a set of effective field equations, which incorporate the gravitational, vacuum-polarization induced, running of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Herbert W. Hamber , Ruth M. Williams

The behaviour of a "test" electromagnetic field in the background of an exact gravitational plane wave is investigated in the framework of Einstein's general relativity. We have expressed the general solution to the de Rham equations as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Enrico Montanari , Mirco Calura

The measurement of the speed of gravitational waves (GWs) is useful to distinguish general relativity from massive gravity. We propose a new model-independent strategy to measure the speed of GWs with the distorted pulsars. Theoretically,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-07 Shuang Du , Fang-Kun Peng , Miao Li

For the strong gravitational wave model, an explicit transformation is obtained from a privileged coordinate system with a wave variable to a synchronous reference frame with separation of time and space variables. In a synchronous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-14 Konstantin E. Osetrin , Vladimir Y. Epp , Sergey V. Chervon

We first review some aspects of gravitational wave and the thermodynamic expression of Einstein field equations, these achieved conclusions allow people to think of Einstein's gravitational wave as a kind of sound wave in ordinary gas which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-18 Ming Chen , Yong-Chang Huang

The interaction of a gravitational wave (GW) with an elastic body is usually described in terms of a GW "force" driving the oscillations of the body's normal modes. However, this description is only possible for GW frequencies for which the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-26 Enis Belgacem , Michele Maggiore , Thomas Moreau

The combined observation of GW170817 and its electromagnetic counterpart GRB170817A reveals that gravitational waves propagate at the speed of light in high precision. We apply the effective field theory approach to investigate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-23 Yi-Fu Cai , Chunlong Li , Emmanuel N. Saridakis , LingQin Xue

In the present work, an expression for Planck Mass or Planck Energy is derived by equating the Compton wavelength with the gravitational radius of the Kerr rotating body. Using the modified photon energy-momentum dispersion relation, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-13 Anuj Kumar Dubey , A. K. Sen , Sonarekha Nath

We focus on understanding the beaming of gravitational radiation from gamma ray bursts (GRBs) by approximating GRBs as linearly accelerated point masses. For accelerated point masses, it is known that gravitational radiation is beamed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-03 Andrew L. Miller , Thulsi Wickramasinghe

Effective field theories (EFT) of dark energy (DE) -- built to parameterise the properties of DE in an agnostic manner -- are severely constrained by measurements of the propagation speed of gravitational waves (GW). However, GW frequencies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-29 Tessa Baker , Enrico Barausse , Anson Chen , Claudia de Rham , Mauro Pieroni , Gianmassimo Tasinato

In the framework of general relativity (GR), gravitational waves (GWs) travel at the speed of light across all frequencies. However, massive gravity and weak equivalence principle (WEP) violation may lead to frequency-dependent variations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-07 Xian-Liang Wang , Shu-Cheng Yang , Wen-Biao Han

We obtain an Einstein metric of constant negative curvature given an arbitrary boundary metric in three dimensions, and a conformally flat one given an arbitrary conformally flat boundary metric in other dimensions. In order to compute the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Kostas Skenderis , Sergey N. Solodukhin

Einstein-aether theory provides a model to test the validity of local Lorentz invariance in gravitational interactions. The speed of gravitational waves as measured from the binary neutron star event GW170817 sets stringent limits on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-06 Julius Streibert , Hector O. Silva , Miguel Zumalacárregui

The equations which determine the response of a charged particle moving in a magnetic field to an incident gravitational wave(GW) are derived in the linearized approximation to general relativity. We briefly discuss several astrophysical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-23 Demetrios B. Papadopoulos

Non-perturbative studies of quantum gravity have recently suggested the possibility that the strength of gravitational interactions might slowly increase with distance. Here a set of generally covariant effective field equations are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 Herbert W. Hamber , Ruth M. Williams

The properties of gravitational-wave (GW) propagation are modified in alternative theories of gravity and are crucial observables to test gravity at cosmological distance. The propagation speed has already been measured from GW170817 so…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-22 Atsushi Nishizawa , Shun Arai

Gravitational wave (GW) astronomy offers the potential to probe the wave-optics regime of gravitational lensing. Wave optics (WO) effects are relevant at low frequencies, when the wavelength is comparable to the characteristic lensing time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-06 Giovanni Tambalo , Miguel Zumalacárregui , Liang Dai , Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung