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In this study, we investigate the polarization properties of gravitational waves within a torsionless spacetime framework, as described by the Palatini formalism. Our analysis uncovers the presence of two novel polarization modes, referred…

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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

We have taken a modified version of the Einstein Hilbert action, $ f(R, T^\phi) $ gravity under consideration, where $T^\phi$ is the energy-momentum tensor trace for the scalar field under consideration. The structural behaviour of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-22 Sourav Roy Chowdhury , Maxim Khlopov

We analyze the polarization content of gravitational waves in Horndeski theory. Besides the familiar plus and cross polarizations in Einstein's General Relativity, there is one more polarization state which is the mixture of the transverse…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-15 Shaoqi Hou , Yungui Gong , Yunqi Liu

Scalar polarization modes of gravitational waves, which are often introduced in the context of the viable extension of gravity, have been actively searched. However, couplings of the scalar modes to the matter are strongly constrained by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-19 Hiroki Takeda , Yusuke Manita , Hidetoshi Omiya , Takahiro Tanaka

This review is focused on tests of Einstein's theory of general relativity with gravitational waves that are detectable by ground-based interferometers and pulsar-timing experiments. Einstein's theory has been greatly constrained in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-13 Nicolas Yunes , Xavier Siemens , Kent Yagi

Relations between the kinematical tensors (the expansion, the shear, and the vorticity) and the polarization modes of gravitational waves are studied within the context of metric theories of gravity by considering freely falling test…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-03 Cynthia Maldonado , Francisco Nettel , Pedro A. Sánchez

Gravitational-wave (GW) observations by a network of ground-based laser interferometric detectors allow us to probe the nature of GW polarizations. This would be an interesting test of general relativity (GR), since GR predicts only two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-27 Srashti Goyal , K. Haris , Ajit Kumar Mehta , Parameswaran Ajith

We present a systematic and robust approach to nonlinear gravitational perturbations of vacuum spacetimes. This approach provides a basis for a theory of nonlinear gravitational waves. In particular, we show that the system of perturbative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-27 Andrzej Rostworowski

This review is focused on tests of Einstein's theory of General Relativity with gravitational waves that are detectable by ground-based interferometers and pulsar timing experiments. Einstein's theory has been greatly constrained in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Nicolas Yunes , Xavier Siemens

The detection of gravitational waves by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory opens a new era to use gravitational waves to test alternative theories of gravity. We investigate the polarizations of gravitational waves in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-02 Yungui Gong , Shaoqi Hou

Lorentz violation modifies the dispersion relation of gravitational waves (GWs), and induces birefringence and anisotropy in propagation. Our study shows that Lorentz violation can also activate multiple polarizations of GWs. We use the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-20 Dicong Liang , Rui Xu , Xuchen Lu , Lijing Shao

We determine the possible gravitational wave polarizations in two general classes of teleparallel gravity theories, using the metric and symmetric teleparallel geometries. For this purpose we apply the Newman-Penrose formalism, and find…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-09 Manuel Hohmann

We investigate propagation of gravitational waves in the most general teleparallel gravity model with second order field equations around the Minkowski background. We argue that in this case the most general Lagrangian at the first order of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-08 Manuel Hohmann , Martin Krššák , Christian Pfeifer , Ulbossyn Ualikhanova

A gauge-invariant formulation for the gravitational wave equations is presented. Using this approach, weak, plane wave solutions in a vacuum are derived in various theories. These include general relativity with two modes of polarization…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-11 Junpei Harada

In General Relativity, there are only two polarizations for gravitational waves. However, up to six polarizations are possible in a generic metric theory of gravity. Therefore, measuring the polarization content of gravitational waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-12 Jierui Hu , Dicong Liang , Lijing Shao

Gravitationally bound hierarchies containing three or more components are very common in our Universe. In this paper we study {\em periodic} gravitational wave (GW) form, their polarizations, response function, its Fourier transform, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-23 Kai Lin , Xiang Zhao , Chao Zhang , Tan Liu , Bin Wang , Shaojun Zhang , Xing Zhang , Wen Zhao , Tao Zhu , Anzhong Wang

We explore the gravitational waves (GWs) within the framework of the $f(R)$ gravity model represented by $f(R)=R^{1+\delta}/R^\delta_c$ in the weak field approximation. In this scenario, gravitational waves exhibit an additional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-17 Utkal Keshari Dash , Bal Krishna Yadav , Murli Manohar Verma

The observation of the inspiral and merger of compact binaries by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration has allowed for new tests of Einstein's theory in the extreme gravity regime, where gravitational interactions are simultaneously strong,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-11 Pratik Wagle , Alexander Saffer , Nicolas Yunes

In a subclass of Horndeski theories with the speed of gravity equivalent to that of light, we study gravitational radiation emitted during the inspiral phase of compact binary systems. We compute the waveform of scalar perturbations under a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-07 Yurika Higashino , Shinji Tsujikawa