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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

Gravitational wave detectors capable of making astronomical observations could begin to operate within the next year, and over the next 10 years they will extend their reach out to cosmological distances, culminating in the space mission…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Bernard F. Schutz

We study the possibility of using matter wave interferometry techniques to build a gravitational wave detector. We derive the response function and find that it contains a term proportional to the derivative of the gravitational wave, a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Stefano Foffa , Alice Gasparini , Michele Papucci , Riccardo Sturani

The Laser Interferometer Lunar Antenna (LILA) is a proposed gravitational-wave project aiming to take full advantage of the Moon's environment to access the deci-Hz band and detect intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) binaries of mass $\sim…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-13 Tintin Nguyen , Anjali Yelikar , Ryan Nowicki , Karan Jani , Angelo Ricarte

Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) measurements are crucial for advanced exploration of the laws of fundamental gravitational physics and geophysics. Current LLR technology allows us to measure distances to the Moon with a precision approaching 1…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. M. Kopeikin , E. Pavlis , D. Pavlis , V. A. Brumberg , A. Escapa , J. Getino , A. Gusev , J. Mueller , W. -T. Ni , N. Petrova

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is the first scientific endeavour to detect and study gravitational waves from space. LISA will survey the sky for Gravitational Waves in the 0.1 mHz to 1 Hz frequency band which will enable the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-13 Monica Colpi , Karsten Danzmann , Martin Hewitson , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann , Philippe Jetzer , Gijs Nelemans , Antoine Petiteau , David Shoemaker , Carlos Sopuerta , Robin Stebbins , Nial Tanvir , Henry Ward , William Joseph Weber , Ira Thorpe , Anna Daurskikh , Atul Deep , Ignacio Fernández Núñez , César García Marirrodriga , Martin Gehler , Jean-Philippe Halain , Oliver Jennrich , Uwe Lammers , Jonan Larrañaga , Maike Lieser , Nora Lützgendorf , Waldemar Martens , Linda Mondin , Ana Piris Niño , Pau Amaro-Seoane , Manuel Arca Sedda , Pierre Auclair , Stanislav Babak , Quentin Baghi , Vishal Baibhav , Tessa Baker , Jean-Baptiste Bayle , Christopher Berry , Emanuele Berti , Guillaume Boileau , Matteo Bonetti , Richard Brito , Riccardo Buscicchio , Gianluca Calcagni , Pedro R. Capelo , Chiara Caprini , Andrea Caputo , Eleonora Castelli , Hsin-Yu Chen , Xian Chen , Alvin Chua , Gareth Davies , Andrea Derdzinski , Valerie Fiona Domcke , Daniela Doneva , Irna Dvorkin , Jose María Ezquiaga , Jonathan Gair , Zoltan Haiman , Ian Harry , Olaf Hartwig , Aurelien Hees , Anna Heffernan , Sascha Husa , David Izquierdo , Nikolaos Karnesis , Antoine Klein , Valeriya Korol , Natalia Korsakova , Thomas Kupfer , Danny Laghi , Astrid Lamberts , Shane Larson , Maude Le Jeune , Marek Lewicki , Tyson Littenberg , Eric Madge , Alberto Mangiagli , Sylvain Marsat , Ivan Martin Vilchez , Andrea Maselli , Josh Mathews , Maarten van de Meent , Martina Muratore , Germano Nardini , Paolo Pani , Marco Peloso , Mauro Pieroni , Adam Pound , Hippolyte Quelquejay-Leclere , Angelo Ricciardone , Elena Maria Rossi , Andrea Sartirana , Etienne Savalle , Laura Sberna , Alberto Sesana , Deirdre Shoemaker , Jacob Slutsky , Thomas Sotiriou , Lorenzo Speri , Martin Staab , Danièle Steer , Nicola Tamanini , Gianmassimo Tasinato , Jesus Torrado , Alejandro Torres-Orjuela , Alexandre Toubiana , Michele Vallisneri , Alberto Vecchio , Marta Volonteri , Kent Yagi , Lorenz Zwick

Gravitational wave (GW) astrophysics is entering a multi-band era with upcoming GW detectors, enabling detailed mapping of the stochastic GW background across vast frequencies. We highlight this potential via a new physics scenario: hybrid…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-26 Yunjia Bao , Tore Boybeyi , Vuk Mandic , Lian-Tao Wang

This letter is a generalization of previous results on gravitational waves (GWs) from f(R) theories of gravity. In some previous papers, particular f(R) theories have been linearized for the first time in the literature. Now, the process is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-23 Salvatore Capozziello , Christian Corda , Maria Felicia De Laurentis

Gravitational waves (GWs) from distant sources such as inspiralling and merging stellar-mass compact binaries, intermediate-mass and supermassive-binary-black-hole can be gravitationally lensed by intervening objects, ranging from stars and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 Zhiwei Chen , Youjun Lu

In this paper, we systematically study gravitational waves (GWs) produced by remote compact astrophysical sources. To describe such GWs properly, we introduce three scales, $\lambda, \; L_c$ and $L$, denoting, respectively, the typical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Jared Fier , Xiongjun Fang , Bowen Li , Shinji Mukohyama , Anzhong Wang , Tao Zhu

We propose a space-based gravitational wave detector consisting of two spatially separated, drag-free satellites sharing ultra-stable optical laser light over a single baseline. Each satellite contains an optical lattice atomic clock, which…

We propose an atom interferometer gravitational wave detector in low Earth orbit (AGIS-LEO). Gravitational waves can be observed by comparing a pair of atom interferometers separated over a ~30 km baseline. In the proposed configuration,…

Gravitational-wave astronomy will soon become a new tool for observing the Universe. Detecting and interpreting gravitational waves will require deep theoretical insights into astronomical sources. The past three decades have seen…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-03 Alessandra Buonanno , B. S. Sathyaprakash

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

Sapce-borne gravitational wave antennas, such as LISA and LISA-like mission (Taiji and Tianqin), will offer novel perspectives for exploring our Universe while introduce new challenges, especially in data analysis. Aside from the known…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-17 Yuxiang Xu , Minghui Du , Peng Xu , Bo Liang , He Wang

The magnitudes of the external gravitational perturbations associated with the normal modes of the Sun are evaluated to determine whether these solar oscillations could be observed with the proposed Laser Interferometer Space Antenna…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-09 Curt Cutler , Lee Lindblom

We report the realization of a large scale gravity antenna based on matter-wave interferometry, the MIGA project. This experiment consists in an array of cold Rb sources correlated by a 150 m long optical cavity. MIGA is in construction at…

Gravitational wave (GW) detections have enriched our understanding of the universe. To date, all single-source GW events were found by interferometer-type detectors. We study a detection method using astrometric solutions from photometric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-13 Yijun Wang , Kris Pardo , Tzu-Ching Chang , Olivier Doré

We give a detailed treatment of electromagnetic signals generated by gravitational waves (GWs) in resonant cavity experiments. Our investigation corrects and builds upon previous studies by carefully accounting for the gauge dependence of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-25 Asher Berlin , Diego Blas , Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo , Sebastian A. R. Ellis , Roni Harnik , Yonatan Kahn , Jan Schütte-Engel