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We study the cosmological propagation of gravitational waves (GWs) beyond general relativity (GR) across homogeneous and isotropic backgrounds. We consider scenarios in which GWs interact with an additional tensor field and use a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Jose Maria Ezquiaga , Wayne Hu , Macarena Lagos , Meng-Xiang Lin

Clustering measurements of Gravitational Wave (GW) mergers in Luminosity Distance Space can be used in the future as a powerful tool for Cosmology. We consider tomographic measurements of the Angular Power Spectrum of mergers both in an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-23 S. Libanore , M. C. Artale , D. Karagiannis , M. Liguori , N. Bartolo , Y. Bouffanais , N. Giacobbo , M. Mapelli , S. Matarrese

The LIGO-VIRGO collaboration has detected directly on Earth the gravitational wave signals generated by the collision and the merger of two massive black holes at astronomical distance. This major discovery opens up the way to Gravitational…

Popular Physics · Physics 2017-06-26 Luc Blanchet

We intend to propose an experimental sketch to detect gravitational waves (GW) directly, using an cold electronic plasma in a long pipe. By considering an cold electronic plasma in a long pipe, the Maxwell equations in 3+1 formalism will be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 O. Jalili , S. Rouhani , M. V. Takook

The nature of gravity can be tested by how gravitational waves (GWs) are emitted, detected, and propagate through the universe. Propagation tests are powerful, as small deviations compound over cosmological distances. However, GW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-03 Nicola Menadeo , Miguel Zumalacárregui

The propagation of plane electromagnetic waves in the gravitational field inside a rotating cloud of dark matter is analyzed. Formulas for the deflection and absorption of light, and the rotation of the polarization plane are obtained in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-28 Shahen Hacyan

We study the interaction between gravitational waves and quantum matter such as Bose-Einstein condensates, super-fluid Helium, or ultra-cold solids, explicitly taking into account the changes of the trapping potential induced by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Jonathan Gräfe , Falk Adamietz , Ralf Schützhold

One of the most dominant energy budgets in the Universe is Dark Energy, which remains enigmatic since its existence was first claimed based on observations of late-time cosmic acceleration. We propose a new way of inferring the dark energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-25 Suvodip Mukherjee

According to electrodynamical equations in curved spacetime we consider the coupling of a linearized weak gravitational wave (GW) to a Gaussian beam passing through a static magnetic field. It is found that unlike the properties of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Fang-Yu Li , Zhang-Han Wu , Yi Zhang

We study the dynamics of the interacting models between the Gauss-Bonnet (GB) coupled scalar field and the dark matter fluid in a homogeneous and isotropic background. A key feature of GB coupling models is the varying speed of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-28 Saddam Hussain , Simran Arora , Yamuna Rana , Benjamin Rose , Anzhong Wang

It is standard practice to study the lensing of gravitational waves (GW) using the geometric optics regime. However, in many astrophysical configurations this regime breaks down as the wavelength becomes comparable to the Schwarzschild…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-26 Giulia Cusin , Macarena Lagos

The modeling of gravitational wave ringdown has traditionally relied on linear perturbation theory, which mainly describes the late-time behavior of a perturbed black hole after a binary merger. However, the need for more accurate ringdown…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-03 Macarena Lagos

Gravitational Wave (GW) astronomy promises to observe different kinds of astrophysical sources. Here we explore the possibility of detection of GWs from hyperbolic interactions of compact stars with ground-based interferometric detectors.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-29 Sajal Mukherjee , Sanjit Mitra , Sourav Chatterjee

The issue of the gauge invariance of gravitational waves arises if they are produced in the early universe at second-order in perturbation theory. We address it by dividing the discussion about the gauge invariance in three parts: the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-18 V. De Luca , G. Franciolini , A. Kehagias , A. Riotto

Gravitational waves signatures from dynamical scalar field configurations provide a compelling observational window on the early universe. Here we identify intriguing connections between dark matter and scalars fields that emit…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-13 Amit Bhoonah , Joseph Bramante , Simran Nerval , Ningqiang Song

We outline a gauge-invariant framework to calculate cosmological perturbations in dark energy models consisting of a scalar field interacting with dark matter via energy and momentum exchanges. Focusing on three well-known models of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-07 William J. Potter , Sirichai Chongchitnan

Cosmological gravitational wave backgrounds (CGWBs) are the conglomeration of unresolved gravitational wave signals from early Universe sources, which make them a promising tool for cosmologists. Because gravitons decouple from the cosmic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-27 Tatsuya Daniel , Marcell Howard , Morgane König

Probing the relative speeds of gravitational waves and light acts as an important test of General Relativity and alternative theories of gravity. Measuring the arrival time of gravitational waves and electromagnetic counterparts can be used…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-08 Thomas E. Collett , David Bacon

A laser interferometric detector of gravitational waves is studied and a complete solution (to first order in the metric perturbation) of the coupled Einstein-Maxwell equations with appropriate boundary conditions for the light beams is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 F. I. Cooperstock , V. Faraoni

We show that from the R^{2} high order gravity theory it is possible to produce, in the linearized approch, particles which can be seen like massive modes of gravitational waves (GWs). The presence of the mass generates a longitudinal force…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Christian Corda