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We hereby propose an alternative and additional angle on the nature of gravitational waves (GWs), postulating the theoretical and experimental possibility that GWs carry a deformation of the time component of spacetime, other than the…

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Assessing the probability that two or more gravitational waves (GWs) are lensed images of the same source requires an understanding of the image properties, including their relative phase shifts in strong lensing (SL). For non-precessing,…

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Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are among the most promising sources for future space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors, such as LISA. To fully leverage the scientific potential, the GW templates required for parameter estimation…

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While current gravitational wave observations with ground based detectors have been consistent with compact binaries in quasi-circular orbits, eccentric binaries may be detectable by ground-based and space-based instruments in the near…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-04 Blake Moore , Nicolás Yunes

Maximal signal and peak of high-frequency relic gravitational waves (GW's), recently expected by quintessential inflationary models, may be firmly localized in the GHz region, the energy density of the relic gravitons in critical units…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Fang-Yu Li , Meng-Xi Tang , Dong-Ping Shi

Understanding common envelope (CE) evolution is an outstanding problem in binary evolution. Although the CE phase is not driven by gravitational-wave (GW) emission, the in-spiraling binary emits GWs that passively trace the CE dynamics.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-13 M. Renzo , T. Callister , K. Chatziioannou , L. A. C. van Son , C. M. F. Mingarelli , M. Cantiello , K. E. S. Ford , B. McKernan , G. Ashton

The advanced gravitational wave (GW) detector network has started {routine detection of } signals from merging compact binaries. Data indicate that in a fair fraction of these sources, at least one component was a neutron star, bringing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-29 Akshat Singhal , Sourav Palit , Suman Bala , Gaurav Waratkar , Harsh Kumar , Varun Bhalerao

We report the plausibility of using quantum mechanical transitions, induced by the combined effect of Gravitational wave (GW) and noncommutative (NC) structure of space, among the states of a 2-dimensional harmonic oscillator, to probe the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-04 Anirban Saha , Sunandan Gangopadhyay

We investigate the effect of dynamically coupling gas torques with gravitational wave (GW) emission during the orbital evolution of an equal-mass massive black hole binary (MBHB). We perform hydrodynamical simulations of eccentric MBHBs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-23 Mudit Garg , Alessia Franchini , Alessandro Lupi , Matteo Bonetti , Lucio Mayer

The construction of ready to use templates for gravitational waves from spinning binaries is an important challenge in the investigation of detectable gravitational wave signals. Here we present a method to evaluate the gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 János Majár , Mátyás Vasúth

Gravitational waves (GWs) can alter the neutrino propagation distance and thus affect neutrino oscillations. This can result in a complete disappearance of the oscillatory behavior that competes with other sources of neutrino decoherence.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-12 Dominik Hellmann , Sara Krieg , Heinrich Päs , Mustafa Tabet

The behaviour of a "test" electromagnetic field in the background of an exact gravitational plane wave is investigated in the framework of Einstein's general relativity. We have expressed the general solution to the de Rham equations as a…

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The future detection of gravitational wave forces us to consider the many ways in which astrophysics, gravitational wave theory and fundamental theory will interact. In this paper, I summarize some recent work done to develop such an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-12-19 Nicolas Yunes

Recent observations by pulsar timing arrays indicate the presence of gravitational wave signals, likely from supermassive black hole binaries. These binaries can produce two types of signals: a stochastic gravitational wave background (GWB)…

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We lay a theoretical foundation in the observation of gravitational waves (GWs) by electromagnetic waves (EMWs) performing a full electromagnetic analysis without any optical approximation. For that, the perturbation of plane EMWs is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-22 Chan Park

The measurement of spin-precession and orbital eccentricity in gravitational-wave (GW) signals is a key priority in GW astronomy, as these effects not only provide insights into the astrophysical formation and evolution of compact binaries…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-22 Gonzalo Morras , Geraint Pratten , Patricia Schmidt

I review the expected Galactic sources of gravitational waves, concentrating on the low-frequency domain and summarise the current observational and theoretical knowledge we have. A model for the Galactic population of close binaries, which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Nelemans

Cosmological observations over past couple of decades favor our universe with a tiny positive cosmological constant. Presence of cosmological constant not only imposes theoretical challenges in gravitational wave physics, it has also…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-24 Sk Jahanur Hoque , Ankit Aggarwal

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), i.e. binary systems comprised by a compact stellar-mass object orbiting a massive black hole, are expected to be among the primary gravitational wave (GW) sources for the forthcoming LISA mission. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-25 Matteo Bonetti , Alberto Sesana

The NANOGrav Collaboration has recently announced evidence for nHz gravitational waves (GWs), in the form of a Hellings-Downs angular correlation in the common-spectrum process that had been observed previously by them and other Pulsar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-15 John Ellis , Malcolm Fairbairn , Gert Hütsi , Juhan Raidal , Juan Urrutia , Ville Vaskonen , Hardi Veermäe