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Motivated by the old idea of using the moon as a resonant gravitational-wave (GW) detector, as well as the recent updates in modeling the lunar response to GWs, we re-evaluate the feasibility of using a network of lunar seismometers to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-23 Han Yan , Xian Chen , Jinhai Zhang , Fan Zhang , Lijing Shao , Mengyao Wang

The internal gravity waves are the oscillations present in the gravitational field of the stratified medium, that is the mediums which density raises with the depth change. If the equilibrium state of the component volume of this medium is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vitaly V. Bulatov , Yuriy V. Vladimirov

Gravitational waves are perturbations of the metric of space-time. Six polarizations are possible, although general relativity predicts that only two such polarizations, tensor plus and tensor cross are present for gravitational waves. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-16 Dicong Liang , Yungui Gong , Alan J. Weinstein , Chao Zhang , Chunyu Zhang

We analyze detector responses of gravitational wave detectors for gravitational waves with arbitrary polarizations predicted in the metric theories of gravity. We present the general formulas for the frequency responses valid in various…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-06 Arkadiusz Błaut

The paper is a sequel to our previous work (Zhang et al. Phys. Rev. D 103, 062001 (2021)). For proposed geocentric space-based gravitational wave detectors such as TianQin, gLISA, and GADFLI, the gravity-field disturbances, i.e., the so…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-11 Chengjian Luo , Xuefeng Zhang

Lunar gravitational-wave (GW) detectors relying on the measurement of the response of the Moon to GWs are susceptible to a seismic background, which might pose a fundamental sensitivity limitation. The Lunar Gravitational-wave Antenna…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 Han Yan , Jan Harms

This document presents a ray-optics analysis of the response of a two-element radio interferometer to the presence of a plane gravitational wave. A general expression for the differential phase observed between the two receiving stations as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Kipp Cannon

Electromagnetic methods recently proposed for detecting gravitational waves modify the Michelson phase shift analysis (historically employed for special relativity). We suggest that a frequency modulation analysis is more suited to general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Sivasubramanian , Y. N. Srivastava , A. Widom

In the presence of a weak gravitational wave (GW) background, astrophysical binary systems act as high-quality resonators, with efficient transfer of energy and momentum between the orbit and a harmonic GW leading to potentially detectable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-23 Joshua W. Foster , Diego Blas , Adrien Bourgoin , Aurelien Hees , Míriam Herrero-Valea , Alexander C. Jenkins , Xiao Xue

The Laser Interferometer Lunar Antenna (LILA) presents a novel concept for observing gravitational waves from astrophysical sources at sub-Hertz frequencies. Compared to the Earth, the seismic environment of the moon, while uncertain, is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-15 Brett N. Shapiro

Gravitational waves offer a potent mean to test the underlying theory of gravity. In general theories of gravity, such as scalar-tensor theories, one expects modifications in the friction term and the sound speed in the gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-17 Yi-Fu Cai , Guillem Domènech , Alexander Ganz , Jie Jiang , Chunshan Lin , Bo Wang

A novel method for extending frequency frontier in gravitational wave observations is proposed. It is shown that gravitational waves can excite a magnon. Thus, gravitational waves can be probed by a graviton-magnon detector which measures…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-03 Asuka Ito , Tomonori Ikeda , Kentaro Miuchi , Jiro Soda

A Uranus orbiter would be well positioned to detect the planet's free oscillation modes, whose frequencies can resolve questions about Uranus's weakly constrained interior. We calculate the spectra that may manifest in resonances with ring…

Several large-scale experimental facilities and space-missions are being suggested to probe the universe across the gravitational-wave (GW) spectrum. Here we propose Gravitational-wave Lunar Observatory for Cosmology (GLOC) - the first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-24 Karan Jani , Abraham Loeb

We report a search for new gravitational physics phenomena based on Einstein-Cartan theory of General Relativity including spacetime torsion. Starting from the parametrized torsion framework of Mao, Tegmark, Guth and Cabi, we analyze the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-13 Riccardo March , Giovanni Bellettini , Roberto Tauraso , Simone Dell'Agnello

Lunar-based gravitational-wave interferometry is a fascinating endeavor, and was proposed as a promising approach to bridge the observational gap between space-borne and ground-based detectors. In this work, we adopt the Fisher-matrix…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-12 Xiaolin Zhang , Chengye Yu , Haoran Li , Sobhan Kazempour , Mingqiu Li , Sichun Sun

Tidal force plays an important role in the evolution of the planet-moon system. The tidal force of a moon can excite seismic waves in the planet it is orbiting. A tidal-seismic resonance is expected when a tidal force frequency matches a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-22 Yuan Tian , Yingcai Zheng

Pulsar timing experiments aimed at the detection of gravitational radiation have been performed for decades now. With the forthcoming construction of large arrays capable of tracking multiple millisecond pulsars, it is very likely we will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 Marcio Eduardo da Silva Alves , Massimo Tinto

The search for gravitational waves is one of today's major scientific endeavors. A gravitational wave can interact with matter by exciting vibrations of elastic bodies. Earth itself is a large elastic body whose so-called normal-mode…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-05 Michael Coughlin , Jan Harms

Advanced gravitational wave detectors, currently under construction, are expected to directly observe gravitational wave signals of astrophysical origin. The Einstein Telescope, a third-generation gravitational wave detector, has been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-20 S. Hild , M. Abernathy , F. Acernese , P. Amaro-Seoane , N. Andersson , K. Arun , F. Barone , B. Barr , M. Barsuglia , M. Beker , N. Beveridge , S. Birindelli , S. Bose , L. Bosi , S. Braccini , C. Bradaschia , T. Bulik , E. Calloni , G. Cella , E. Chassande Mottin , S. Chelkowski , A. Chincarini , J. Clark , E. Coccia , C. Colacino , J. Colas , A. Cumming , L. Cunningham , E. Cuoco , S. Danilishin , K. Danzmann , R. De Salvo , T. Dent , R. De Rosa , L. Di Fiore , A. Di Virgilio , M. Doets , V. Fafone , P. Falferi , R. Flaminio , J. Franc , F. Frasconi , A. Freise , D. Friedrich , P. Fulda , J. Gair , G. Gemme , E. Genin , A. Gennai , A. Giazotto , K. Glampedakis , C. Gräf , M. Granata , H. Grote , G. Guidi , A. Gurkovsky , G. Hammond , M. Hannam , J. Harms , D. Heinert , M. Hendry , I. Heng , E. Hennes , J. Hough , S. Husa , S. Huttner , G. Jones , F. Khalili , K. Kokeyama , K. Kokkotas , B. Krishnan , T. G. F. Li , M. Lorenzini , H. Lück , E. Majorana , I. Mandel , V. Mandic , M. Mantovani , I. Martin , C. Michel , Y. Minenkov , N. Morgado , S. Mosca , B Mours , H. Müller-Ebhardt , P. Murray , R. Nawrodt , J. Nelson , R. Oshaughnessy , C. D. Ott , C. Palomba , A. Paoli , G. Parguez , A. Pasqualetti , R. Passaquieti , D. Passuello , L. Pinard , W. Plastino , R. Poggiani1 , P. Popolizio , M. Prato , M. Punturo , P. Puppo , D. Rabeling , P. Rapagnani , J. Read , T. Regimbau , H. Rehbein , S. Reid , F. Ricci , F. Richard , A. Rocchi , S. Rowan , A. Rüdiger , L. Santamaría , B. Sassolas , B. Sathyaprakash , R. Schnabel , C. Schwarz , P. Seidel , A. Sintes , K. Somiya , F. Speirits , K. Strain , S Strigin , P. Sutton , S. Tarabrin , A. Thüring , J. van den Brand , M. van Veggel , C. van den Broeck , A. Vecchio , J. Veitch , F. Vetrano , A. Vicere , S. Vyatchanin , B. Willke , G. Woan , K. Yamamoto