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In general relativity, a gravitational wave has two polarization modes (tensor mode), but it could have additional polarizations (scalar and vector modes) in the early stage of the universe, where the general relativity may not strictly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Atsushi Nishizawa , Atsushi Taruya , Seiji Kawamura

We investigate the cross-correlation between astrometric and timing-residual observables for distant sources, such as pulsars and galaxies, and equivalent observables for nearby solar system bodies. Using the unified spin-weighted formalism…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-31 Elias Fink , Carlo Contaldi , Giorgio Mentasti

Torsion detection from totally skew symmetric torsion waves in the context of teleparallel gravity is discussed. A gedanken experiment to detect Cartan's contortion based on a circle of particles not necessarily spinning is proposed. It is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 L. C. Garcia de Andrade

New physics in the early Universe could lead to parity-violation in the late Universe, sourcing statistics whose sign changes under point reflection. The best constraints on such phenomena have come from the Planck temperature fluctuations;…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-20 Oliver H. E. Philcox , Maresuke Shiraishi

We study primordial gravitational waves (PGWs) in the Horava-Lifshitz (HL) theory of quantum gravity, in which high-order spatial derivative operators, including the ones violating parity, generically appear in order for the theory to be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-10 Anzhong Wang , Qiang Wu , Wen Zhao , Tao Zhu

When modified theories of gravity are considered, at most six gravitational wave polarization modes are allowed and classified in tensor modes, the only ones predicted by General Relativity (GR), along with additional vector and scalar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-29 Loris Amalberti , Nicola Bartolo , Angelo Ricciardone

The geometric optics approximation traditionally used to study the propagation of gravitational waves on a curved background, breaks down in the vicinity of compact and extended astrophysical objects, where wave-like effects like diffusion…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-06 Giulia Cusin , Ruth Durrer , Pedro G. Ferreira

Pulsar timing experiments are reaching sufficient sensitivity to detect a postulated stochastic gravitational wave background generated by merging supermassive black hole systems in the cores of galaxies. We describe the techniques behind…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 G. Hobbs

We discuss the coherent search strategy to detect gravitational waves from inspiraling compact binaries by a network of correlated laser interferometric detectors. From the maximum likelihood ratio statistic, we obtain a coherent statistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Hideyuki Tagoshi , Himan Mukhopadhyay , Sanjeev Dhurandhar , Norichika Sago , Hirotaka Takahashi , Nobuyuki Kanda

As one of the detection targets of all gravitational wave detectors at present, stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) provides us an important way to understand the evolution of our universe. In this paper, we explore the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-22 Bo-Rui Wang , Jin Li , He Wang

Gravitational-wave signals from compact binary coalescences are most efficiently identified through matched filter searches, which match the data against a pre-generated bank of gravitational-wave templates. Although different techniques…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-31 Connor McIsaac , Charlie Hoy , Ian Harry

Parity violation in the gravitational interaction has an important impact on fundamental observables and the evolution of the universe. We here investigate for the first time our ability to probe the parity violating nature of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-22 Nicholas Loutrel , Takahiro Tanaka , Nicolas Yunes

General relativity predicts that gravitational waves are described by two polarisation states: the plus $+$ state and cross $\times$ state. However, alternate theories of gravity allow up to six polarisations. We employ the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-04 Shun Yin Cheung , Lachlan Passenger , Paul D. Lasky , Eric Thrane

For the last fifteen years, the limiting noise source at the low frequency end of the sensitivity window for space gravitational wave detectors has been expected to be the confusion background of overlapping galactic binary stars. Here, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ronald W. Hellings

One of the goals of gravitational-wave astronomy is simultaneous detection of gravitational-wave signals from merging compact-object binaries and the electromagnetic transients from these mergers. With the next generation of advanced…

We study both primordial gravitational waves (GWs) and scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) in a class of the parity-violating scalar-tensor (PVST) theory, of which the Lagrangian is the linear combination of seven ghost-free…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Jia-Xi Feng , Jia-Yuan Fang , Xian Gao

Pulsar-timing collaborations have recently reported evidence for the detection of an isotropic stochastic gravitational-wave background consistent with one sourced by a population of inspiralling supermassive black hole binaries. However, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-09 Neha Anil Kumar , Mesut Çalışkan , Gabriela Sato-Polito , Marc Kamionkowski , Lingyuan Ji

The response of a cross-correlation measurement to an isotropic stochastic gravitational-wave background depends on the observing geometry via the overlap reduction function. If one of the detectors being correlated is a resonant bar whose…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 John T Whelan

Gravitational waves (GWs) from tens of millions of compact binaries in our Milky Way enter the milli-Hertz band of space-based detection. The majority of them cannot be resolved individually, resulting in a foreground confusion noise for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-14 Chang Liu , Wen-Hong Ruan , Zong-Kuan Guo

A space-based gravitational-wave detector, LISA, consists of a triangle of three spacecrafts with a separation distance of 2.5 million kilometers in a heliocentric orbit behind the Earth. Like LISA, Taiji is compose of a triangle of three…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-12 Wen-Hong Ruan , Chang Liu , Zong-Kuan Guo , Yue-Liang Wu , Rong-Gen Cai