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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

Space-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors are expected to detect the stellar-mass binary black holes (SBBHs) inspiralling in the low-frequency band, which exist in several years before the merger. Accurate GW waveforms in the inspiral…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-09 Jie Wu , Jin Li , Xiaolin Liu , Zhoujian Cao

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

We present and assess a Bayesian method to interpret gravitational wave signals from binary black holes. Our method directly compares gravitational wave data to numerical relativity simulations. This procedure bypasses approximations used…

Inspiral signals from binary compact objects (black holes and neutron stars) are primary targets of the ongoing searches by ground-based gravitational-wave interferometers (LIGO, Virgo, GEO-600 and TAMA-300). We present parameter-estimation…

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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-23 Atsushi Nishizawa , Kazuhiro Hayama

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

We demonstrate Bayesian analyses of the complete gravitational-wave spectrum of binary neutron star mergers events with the next-generation detector Einstein Telescope. Our mock analyses are performed for 20 different signals using the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-12 Giulia Huez , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Matteo Breschi , Rossella Gamba

We discussed prospects for directly detecting circular polarization signal of gravitational wave background. We found it is generally difficult to probe the monopole mode of the signal due to broad directivity of gravitational wave…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Naoki Seto

Recent gravitational wave (GW) observations have enabled us to look beyond the standard paradigm of gravitational physics, namely general relativity (GR). Along with the mass and the angular momentum, which typical astrophysical black holes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-25 N. V. Krishnendu , Sumanta Chakraborty

Over the next decade, third-generation interferometers and the space-based LISA mission will observe binaries in galactic centers involving supermassive black holes with millions of solar masses. More precise measurements of more extreme…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-09 Francisco Duque

The experimental possibility of detecting gravitational waves via their induced time perturbations is explored here, expanding from previous work. The oscillations of the time-time component in the metric are made explicit when working in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-19 Stefano Bondani , Sergio Luigi Cacciatori

One of the most important sources for space-borne gravitational wave detectors such as TianQin and LISA, is the merger of massivie black hole binaries. By analyzing the inspiral signals, we can probe the characteristics of massive black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-30 Ying-Lin Kong , Jian-dong Zhang

The detection of a stochastic gravitational-wave signal from the superposition of many inspiraling supermassive black holes with pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) is likely to occur within the next decade. With this detection will come the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-24 Laura Sampson , Neil J. Cornish , Sean T. McWilliams

We explore the prospects of probing the complex singlet extension of the Standard Model (CxSM) with gravitational waves from the electroweak phase transition. The study establishes a connection of the scalar potential parameters, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-21 Qingyuan Liang , Ligong Bian , Huai-Ke Guo , Yongcheng Wu

Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTA) around the world are using the incredible consistency of millisecond pulsars to measure low frequency gravitational waves from (super)Massive Black Hole (MBH) binaries. We use comprehensive MBH merger models based…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-06 Luke Zoltan Kelley , Laura Blecha , Lars Hernquist , Alberto Sesana , Stephen R. Taylor

Gravitational wave astronomy has placed strong constraints on fundamental physics, and there is every expectation that future observations will continue to do so. In this work we quantify this expectation for future binary merger…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-13 Stephon Alexander , Evan McDonough , Robert Sims , Nicolas Yunes

The detection of gravitational waves has offered us the opportunity to explore the dynamical and strong-field regime of gravity. Because matched filtering is more sensitive to variations in the gravitational waveform phase than the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-01 Shammi Tahura , Kent Yagi , Zack Carson

In this paper, we investigate the sensitivity to additional gravitational wave polarization modes of future detectors. We first look at the upcoming Einstein Telescope and its combination with existing or planned Earth-based detectors in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-20 Lionel Philippoz , Adrian Boîtier , Philippe Jetzer

Extracting gravitational wave (GW) signals from individual Galactic binaries (GBs) against their self-generated confusion noise is a key data analysis challenge for space-borne detectors operating in the $\approx 0.1$ mHz to $\approx 10$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-30 Xue-Hao Zhang , Shao-Dong Zhao , Soumya D. Mohanty , Yu-Xiao Liu