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Neutron star interiors are a fantastic laboratory for high density physics in extreme environments. Probing this system with standard electromagnetic observations is, however, a challenging endeavour, as the radiation tends to be scattered…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-08 Brynmor Haskell , Kai Schwenzer

Gravitational waves (GWs) from presumed binary black hole mergers are now being detected on a regular basis with the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo interferometers. Exotic compact objects (ECOs) have been proposed that differ from Kerr…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-07 Yasmeen Asali , Peter T. H. Pang , Anuradha Samajdar , Chris Van Den Broeck

The experimental possibility of detecting gravitational waves via their induced time perturbations is explored here, expanding from previous work. The oscillations of the time-time component in the metric are made explicit when working in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-19 Stefano Bondani , Sergio Luigi Cacciatori

Multimessenger astronomy incorporating gravitational radiation is a new and exciting field that will potentially provide significant results and exciting challenges in the near future. With advanced interferometric gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-13 N. L. Christensen

Continuous gravitational waves are long-lasting forms of gravitational radiation produced by persistent quadrupolar variations of matter. Standard expected sources for ground-based interferometric detectors are neutron stars presenting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-08 Rodrigo Tenorio , David Keitel , Alicia M. Sintes

With a reinterpretation of recent results, the GRACE Follow-On mission can be applied to gravitational wave astronomy. Existing GRACE Follow-On data constrain the stochastic gravitational wave background to $\Omega_{GW}<3.3\times10^{7}$ at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-27 M. P. Ross , C. A. Hagedorn , E. A. Shaw , A. L. Lockwood , B. M. Iritani , J. G. Lee , K. Venkateswara , J. H. Gundlach

Two new observational windows have been opened to strong gravitational physics: gravitational waves, and very long baseline interferometry. This suggests observational searches for new phenomena in this regime, and in particular for those…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-07 Steven B. Giddings , Seth Koren , Gabriel Treviño

The existence of dark matter is supported by multiple astrophysical observations, yet its particle nature remains unknown. The development of gravitational wave astronomy, especially with future space-based detectors such as LISA, provides…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-10 Yuezhe Chen , Pan-Pan Wang , Bo Wang , Rui Luo , Cheng-Gang Shao

Increased interest in pushing the frontier of gravitational wave searches to higher frequencies (kHz and beyond) has resulted in a variety of different proposed experimental concepts. A significant fraction of them are based on the coupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-06 Valerie Domcke , Joachim Kopp

Ultralight bosons can form macroscopic gravitational-atom clouds around rotating black holes via superradiance, sourcing quasi-monochromatic gravitational waves through level transitions and annihilation. Primordial black holes provide a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-14 Henry Su , Lucas Brown , Christopher Ewasiuk , Stefano Profumo

Gravitational wave astronomy opened dramatically in September 2015 with the LIGO discovery of a distant and massive binary black hole coalescence. The more recent discovery of a binary neutron star merger, followed by a gamma ray burst and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-20 Keith Riles

Optical and infrared observations have thus far detected more celestial cataclysms than have been seen in gravity waves (GW). This argues that we should search for gravity wave signatures that correspond to flux variability seen at optical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-05 Christopher W. Stubbs

Gravitational waves, although generally associated with extremely microscopic effects, can displace by hundreds of kilometers the pulsar interstellar scintillation patterns that bathe the Earth. The combination of the pulsar and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Redouane Fakir

Gravitational wave experiments will play a key role in the investigation of the frontiers of cosmology and the structure of fundamental fields at high energies, by detecting, or setting strong upper-limits to, the primordial gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Ungarelli , A. Vecchio

The stochastic gravitational wave background in the mHz band is a key target for future spaceborne interferometers. Detecting such a signal presents multiple challenges for data processing, especially complicated by the presence of numerous…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-22 Yang Jiang , Qing-Guo Huang

Gravitational-wave data from advanced-era interferometric detectors consists of background Gaussian noise, frequent transient artefacts, and rare astrophysical signals. Multiple search algorithms exist to detect the signals from compact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-13 Gregory Ashton , Ann-Kristin Malz , Nicolo Colombo

An overview is presented of possible cosmologically distant sources of gravitational wave backgrounds, especially those which might produce detectable backgrounds in the LISA band between 0.1 and 100 mHz. Examples considered here include…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Craig J. Hogan

Gravitational waves, detected a century after they were first theorized, are spacetime distortions caused by some of the most cataclysmic events in the universe, including black hole mergers and supernovae. The successful detection of these…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-30 Mario Krenn , Yehonathan Drori , Rana X Adhikari

We introduce a new technique to search for gravitational wave events from compact binary mergers that produce a clear signal only in a single gravitational wave detector, and marginal signals in other detectors. Such a situation can arise…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-22 Barak Zackay , Liang Dai , Tejaswi Venumadhav , Javier Roulet , Matias Zaldarriaga

With the detection of Gravitational waves just about an year ago Einstein`s general theory of relativity- a space-time theory of gravity, got established on a firmer footing than any other theory in physics. Gravitational waves are just…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-27 A. R. Prasanna