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Gravitational wave (GW) observations provide a unique opportunity to test Einstein's General Relativity (GR) in the strong-field regime. While GR predicts only two tensor polarization modes, generic metric theories allow up to six…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 Sk Md Adil Imam , Macarena Lagos

The theory of general relativity (GR) predicts the existence of gravitational waves (GWs) with two tensor modes, while alternative theories propose up to six polarization modes. In this study, we investigate constraints on GW polarization…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-28 Jie Wu , Jin Li

Gravitational waves in general relativity contain two polarization degrees of freedom, commonly labeled plus and cross. Besides those two tensor modes, generic theories of gravity predict up to four additional polarization modes: two scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-11 Katerina Chatziioannou , Maximiliano Isi , Carl-Johan Haster , Tyson B. Littenberg

We analyze the propagation and polarization properties of high-frequency gravitational waves in Einstein-\AE ther theory on vorticity-free and slowly-varying backgrounds at both leading and next-to-leading orders within the geometric optics…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-21 Yu-Qi Dong , Shinji Mukohyama , Yu-Xiao Liu

General Relativity predicts only two tensor polarization modes for gravitational waves while at most six possible polarization modes are allowed in general metric theory of gravity. The number of polarization modes is determined by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-08 Chao Zhang , Yungui Gong , Dicong Liang , Chunyu Zhang

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

In this work, we discuss the polarization contents of Einstein-\ae ther theory and the generalized tensor-vector-scalar (TeVeS) theory, as both theories have a normalized timelike vector field. We derive the linearized equations of motion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-25 Yungui Gong , Shaoqi Hou , Dicong Liang , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos

The detection of gravitational wave signals by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo enables us to probe the polarization content of gravitational waves. In general relativity, only tensor modes are present, while in a variety of alternative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-05 Peter T. H. Pang , Rico K. L. Lo , Isaac C. F. Wong , Tjonnie G. F. Li , Chris Van Den Broeck

There exist six possible polarization modes of gravitational waves in general metric theory of gravity, while two tensor polarization modes are allowed in general relativity. The properties and number of polarization modes depend on gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-28 Hiroki Takeda , Atsushi Nishizawa , Koji Nagano , Yuta Michimura , Kentaro Komori , Masaki Ando , Kazuhiro Hayama

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

The physical degrees of freedom of a gravitational wave (GW) are imprints of the nature of gravity. We can test a gravity theory by searching for polarization modes beyond general relativity. The LIGO-Virgo collaboration analyzed several GW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-24 Hiroki Takeda , Soichiro Morisaki , Atsushi Nishizawa

In this paper, the polarization contents of Einstein-\ae ther theory and the generalized TeVeS theory are studied. The Einstein-\ae ther theory has five polarizations, while the generalized TeVeS theory has six. In particular, transverse…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-10 Shaoqi Hou , Yungui Gong

We study the polarization modes of gravitational waves in general Einstein-vector theory with an arbitrary constant background vector field under a Minkowski background. We compare these polarization modes with those of other vector-tensor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-06 Xiao-Bin Lai , Yu-Qi Dong , Yu-Qiang Liu , Yu-Xiao Liu

Gravitational waves (GWs) have rapidly become important cosmological probes since their first detection in 2015. As the number of detected events continues to rise, upcoming instruments like the Einstein Telescope (ET) and Cosmic Explorer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-03 Stefano Zazzera , José Fonseca , Tessa Baker , Chris Clarkson

With the strong evidence for a gravitational wave (GW) background in the nanohertz frequency band from pulsar timing arrays, the detection of continuous GWs from individual supermassive black hole binaries is already at the dawn. Utilizing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-23 Dicong Liang , Siyuan Chen , Chao Zhang , Lijing Shao

I expand on the results of a recent work in which a novel weighting algorithm was shown to substantially increase the accuracy of an old, non-Bayesian computational approach for inferring the source direction of a gravitational wave from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-31 Tom McClain

In a general metric theory of gravitation in four dimensions, six polarizations of a gravitational wave are allowed: two scalar and two vector modes, in addition to two tensor modes in general relativity. Such additional polarization modes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Atsushi Nishizawa , Atsushi Taruya , Kazuhiro Hayama , Seiji Kawamura , Masa-aki Sakagami

Gravitational wave astronomy has tremendous potential for studying extreme astrophysical phenomena and exploring fundamental physics. The waves produced by binary black hole mergers will provide a pristine environment in which to study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Neil Cornish , Laura Sampson , Nico Yunes , Frans Pretorius

Gravitational waves have only two polarization modes in General Relativity. However, there are six possible modes of polarization in metric theory of gravity in general. The tests of gravitational waves polarization can be tools for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-19 Hiroki Takeda , Atsushi Nishizawa , Yuta Michimura , Koji Nagano , Kentaro Komori , Masaki Ando , Kazuhiro Hayama

We analyze the polarization structure of gravitational waves in the framework of Extended Relativity (ER), using the deviation tensor as the fundamental observable quantity. Starting from the point-source solution, we derive the radiation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-05 Yaakov Friedman
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