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We analyze the sensitivities of a geostationary gravitational wave interferometer mission operating in the sub-Hertz band. Because of its smaller armlength, in the lower part of its accessible frequency band ($10^{-4} - 2 \times 10^{-2}$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-19 M. Tinto , J. C. N. de Araujo , O. D. Aguiar , M. E. S. Alves

Experimental projects using spherical antennas to detect gravitational waves are nowdays a concrete reality. The main purpose of this paper is to give a possible way of interpreting output data from such a system. Responses of the five…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Maria Alice Gasparini

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

This article reviews current efforts and plans for gravitational-wave detection, the gravitational-wave sources that might be detected, and the information that the detectors might extract from the observed waves. Special attention is paid…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Kip S. Thorne

We assess the science reach and technical feasibility of a satellite mission based on precision atomic sensors configured to detect gravitational radiation. Conceptual advances in the past three years indicate that a two-satellite…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 Peter W. Graham , Jason M. Hogan , Mark A. Kasevich , Surjeet Rajendran , Roger W. Romani

The direct detection of gravitational waves by ground-based optical interferometers has opened a new window in astronomy. Nevertheless, as these detectors are a combination of two Michelson-Morley like baselines, their sensitivity for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-25 Mariateresa Crosta , Mario G. Lattanzi , Christophe Le Poncin-Lafitte , Mario Gai , Qi Zhaoxiang , Alberto Vecchiato

The Matter-Wave laser Interferometer Gravitation Antenna, MIGA, will be a hybrid instrument composed of a network of atom interferometers horizontally aligned and interrogated by the resonant field of an optical cavity. This detector will…

A promising approach to detect high-energy tau neutrinos is through the measurement of impulsive radio emission from horizontal air showers initiated in the Earth's atmosphere. Observations at frequencies between 30 and 80 MHz seem…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-31 Tim Huege , Oliver Krömer

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

We make the case for the early development of a Mid-Frequency-Band (MFB) gravitational wave (GW) observatory in geosynchronous orbit (73,000 km arm), optimized for the frequency band 10 mHz to 1 Hz. MFB bridges the science acquisition…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-09 Peter F. Michelson , Robert L. Byer , Sasha Buchman , Ilya Mandel , John Lipa , Shally Saraf

Extending the sensitivity of terrestrial gravitational-wave detectors below 20 Hz is a long-standing challenge, limited by ground motion and inertial sensing noise. In this letter, we demonstrate ultra-high-vacuum compatible inertial…

Accumulation of electrical charge on the end mirrors of gravitational wave observatories, such as the space-based LISA mission and ground-based LIGO detectors, can become a source of noise limiting the sensitivity of such detectors through…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-21 S. E. Pollack , M. D. Turner , S. Schlamminger , C. A. Hagedorn , J. H. Gundlach

We propose a method for separating and detecting the non-tensor modes of stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds (SGWBs) using networks of space-based gravitational-wave detectors. We consider four distinct data-reconstruction schemes for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-24 Bo Mu , Zong-Kuan Guo

Gravitational wave (GW) detection in space is aimed at low frequency band (100 nHz - 100 mHz) and middle frequency band (100 mHz - 10 Hz). The science goals are the detection of GWs from (i) Supermassive Black Holes; (ii) Extreme-Mass-Ratio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-06 Wei-Tou Ni

The first direct observation of gravitational waves' action upon matter has recently been reported by the BICEP2 experiment. Advanced ground-based gravitational-wave detectors are being installed. They will soon be commissioned, and then…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-06 Scott A. Hughes

The existing high technology laser-beam detectors of gravitational waves may find very useful applications in an unexpected area - geophysics. To make possible the detection of weak gravitational waves in the region of high frequencies of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 L. P. Grishchuk , V. V. Kulagin , V. N. Rudenko , A. Serdobolski

The Matter-wave laser Interferometric Gravitation Antenna (MIGA) is an underground instrument using cold-atom interferometry to perform precision measurements of gravity gradients and strains. Following its installation at the low noise…

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

Ground-based interferometric gravitational wave detectors are highly precise sensors for weak forces, limited in sensitivity across their detection band by quantum fluctuations of light. Current and future instruments address this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-14 Yohei Nishino , Stefan Danilishin , Yutaro Enomoto , Teng Zhang

We propose a new detection strategy for gravitational waves (GWs) below few Hertz based on a correlated array of atom interferometers (AIs). Our proposal allows to reduce the Newtonian Noise (NN) which limits all ground based GW detectors…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 W. Chaibi , R. Geiger , B. Canuel , A. Bertoldi , A. Landragin , P. Bouyer