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This Astro2010 science white paper provides an overview of the opportunities in low-frequency gravitational-wave astronomy, a new field that is poised to make significant advances. While discussing the broad context of gravitational-wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 T. A. Prince

Gravitational wave detectors from the advanced generation onwards are expected to be limited in sensitivity by thermal noise of the optics, making the reduction of this noise a key factor in the success of such detectors. A proposed method…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Paul Fulda , Charlotte Bond , Daniel Brown , Frank Brückner , Ludovico Carbone , Simon Chelkowski , Stefan Hild , Keiko Kokeyama , Mengyao Wang , Andreas Freise

In this work we present a mathematical model for the mechanical response of the Brazilian Mario SCHENBERG gravitational wave (GW) detector to such waves. We found the physical parameters that are involved in this response assuming a linear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-16 César A. Costa , Odylio D. Aguiar , Nadja S. Magalhães

We argue that dielectric haloscopes like MADMAX, originally designed for detecting axion dark matter, are also very promising gravitational wave detectors. Operated in resonant mode at frequencies around $\mathcal{O}(10\,\text{GHz})$, these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-11 Valerie Domcke , Sebastian A. R. Ellis , Joachim Kopp

As one of the primary detection targets for contemporary gravitational wave (GW) observatories, the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) holds significant potential for enhancing our understanding of the early universe's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-15 Jin Li , Meijin Li , Nan Yang , Li Wang , Hao Yu , Yingzhou Huang , Kai Lin , Zi-Chao Lin , Fangyu Li

The gravitational-radiation-induced inspiral of a binary system of compact objects is considered. A scheme is described to model the regime in which the gravitational interaction is too strong to use weak-field approximation methods, but…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 John T. Whelan

The hypothesis of an alternative way of obtaining gravitational waves is the physical motivation of this article. Using the linear field approximation and a symmetry transformation of the affine connection, new field equations and new gauge…

General Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Sergio Giardino

Next-generation gravitational-wave detectors will provide unprecedented sensitivity to inspiraling binary neutron stars and black holes, enabling detections at the peak of star formation and beyond. However, the signals from these systems…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-22 Andrew L. Miller , Neha Singh , Cristiano Palomba

Gravitational waves provide a novel way to probe axions or axion-like particles coupled to a dark photon field, even in the absence of couplings to Standard Model particles. In the conventional misalignment mechanism, the generation of an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-25 Eric Madge , Wolfram Ratzinger , Daniel Schmitt , Pedro Schwaller

This is an English translation of the paper M.B.Mensky, in: K.P.Stanyukovich (ed.), "Problems of Theory of Gravity and Elementary Particles", issue 6, Moscow, Atomizdat, 1975, p.181-190 (in Russian). This paper elaborates further the idea…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-12-24 Michael B. Mensky

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

This thesis presents advancements in the detection of gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences, utilising the most sensitive observatories constructed to date. The research focuses on enhancing gravitational-wave signal searches…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-27 Arthur Tolley

The kilo-Hertz gravitational waves radiated by the neutron star merger remnants carry rich information about the physics of high-density nuclear matter states, and many important astrophysical phenomena such as gamma-ray bursts and black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-08 Chuming Wang , Chunnong Zhao , Xiang Li , Enping Zhou , Haixing Miao , Yanbei Chen , Yiqiu Ma

Present gravitational wave detectors are based on the measurement of linear displacement in stable optical cavities. Here, we instead suggest the measurement of the twist of a chiral mechanical element induced by a gravitational wave. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-17 Yi Chen , Muamer Kadic , David E. Kaplan , Surjeet Rajendran , Alexander O. Sushkov , Martin Wegener

Gravitational waves with frequencies below 1~nHz are notoriously difficult to detect. With periods exceeding current experimental lifetimes, they induce slow drifts in observables rather than periodic correlations. Observables with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-12 William DeRocco , Jeff A. Dror

We review the tests of general relativity that will become possible with space-based gravitational-wave detectors operating in the ~0.01mHz - 1Hz low-frequency band. The fundamental aspects of gravitation that can be tested include the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Jonathan R. Gair , Michele Vallisneri , Shane L. Larson , John G. Baker

We consider the stochastic background of gravitational waves produced by a network of cosmic strings and assess their accessibility to current and planned gravitational wave detectors, as well as to big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN), cosmic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Xavier Siemens , Vuk Mandic , Jolien Creighton

The Newtonian constant of gravitation $G$ historically has the largest relative uncertainty over all other fundamental constants with some discrepancies in values between different measurements. We propose a new scheme to measure $G$ by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-02 Akio Kawasaki

Localizing sources on the sky is crucial for realizing the full potential of gravitational waves for astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology. We show that the mid-frequency band, roughly 0.03 to 10 Hz, has significant potential for angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-07 Peter W. Graham , Sunghoon Jung

Exploring gravitational interactions between objects with small masses has become increasingly timely. Concurrently, oscillators with masses ranging between milligrams and grams in cavity optomechanical systems sparked interest for probing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Ziqian Tang , Wenlong Li , Huanying Sun , Xiaoxia Cai , Tiefu Li , Yulong Liu