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The collection of gravitational waves (GWs) that are either too weak or too numerous to be individually resolved is commonly referred to as the gravitational-wave background (GWB). A confident detection and model-driven characterization of…

Wave optics may need to be considered when studying the lensed waveforms of gravitational waves (GWs). However, the computation of the diffraction integral (amplification factor) in wave optics is challenging and time-consuming. It is vital…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-08 Xiao Guo , Youjun Lu

Low-energy alternatives to General Relativity (GR) generically modify the phase of gravitational waves (GWs) during their propagation. As detector sensitivities increase, it becomes key to understand how these modifications affect the GW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-17 Jose Maria Ezquiaga , Wayne Hu , Macarena Lagos , Meng-Xiang Lin , Fei Xu

We apply common gravitational wave inference procedures on binary black hole merger waveforms beyond general relativity. We consider dynamical Chern-Simons gravity, a modified theory of gravity with origins in string theory and loop quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-02 Maria Okounkova , Maximiliano Isi , Katerina Chatziioannou , Will M. Farr

Future third generation (3G) ground-based GW detectors, such as the Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer, will have unprecedented sensitivities enabling studies of the entire population of stellar mass binary black hole coalescences in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-24 Michael Pürrer , Carl-Johan Haster

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,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-31 Jose María Ezquiaga , Daniel E. Holz , Wayne Hu , Macarena Lagos , Robert M. Wald

The matched filtering paradigm is the mainstay of gravitational wave (GW) searches from astrophysical coalescing compact binaries. The compact binary coalescence (CBC) search pipelines perform the matched filter between the GW detector's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-19 Chetan Verma , Amit Reza , Dilip Krishnaswamy , Sarah Caudill , Gurudatt Gaur

We propose a tunable resonant sensor to detect gravitational waves in the frequency range of 50-300 kHz using optically trapped and cooled dielectric microspheres or micro-discs. The technique we describe can exceed the sensitivity of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Asimina Arvanitaki , Andrew A. Geraci

Gravitational wave (GW) experiments have transformed our understanding of the Universe by enabling direct observations of compact object mergers and other astrophysical phenomena. This chapter reviews the concepts of GW detectors, such as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-02 Elisa Bigongiari , Matteo Di Giovanni , Giovanni Losurdo

Present gravitational wave detectors are based on the measurement of linear displacement in stable optical cavities. Here, we instead suggest the measurement of the twist of a chiral mechanical element induced by a gravitational wave. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-17 Yi Chen , Muamer Kadic , David E. Kaplan , Surjeet Rajendran , Alexander O. Sushkov , Martin Wegener

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

The ongoing global effort to detect gravitational waves continues to push the limits of precision measurement while aiming to provide a new tool for understanding both astrophysics and fundamental physics. Squeezed states of light offer a…

Optics · Physics 2013-08-09 M. Evans , L. Barsotti , J. Harms , P. Kwee , H. Miao

Pulsar timing arrays recently found evidence for a gravitational wave background (GWB), likely the stochastic overlap of GWs from many supermassive black hole binaries. Anticipating a continuous gravitational wave (CW) detection from a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-08 Emiko C. Gardiner , Bence Bécsy , Luke Zoltan Kelley , Neil J. Cornish

Binary systems of two compact objects circularize and spiral toward each other via the emission of gravitational waves. The coupling of the spins of each object with the orbital angular momentum causes the orbital plane to precess, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-08 Katerina Chatziioannou , Antoine Klein , Neil Cornish , Nicolas Yunes

In this paper we study the use of cross-correlations between multiple gravitational wave (GW) data streams for detecting long-lived periodic signals. Cross-correlation searches between data from multiple detectors have traditionally been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sanjeev Dhurandhar , Badri Krishnan , Himan Mukhopadhyay , John T. Whelan

Wave-optics phenomena in gravitational lensing occur when the signal's wavelength is commensurate to the gravitational radius of the lens. Although potentially detectable in lensed gravitational waves, fast radio bursts and pulsars,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-20 Hector Villarrubia-Rojo , Stefano Savastano , Miguel Zumalacárregui , Lyla Choi , Srashti Goyal , Liang Dai , Giovanni Tambalo

We construct closed-form gravitational waveforms (GWs) with tidal effects for the coalescence and merger of binary neutron stars. The method relies on a new set of eccentricity-reduced and high-resolution numerical relativity (NR)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-06 Tim Dietrich , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Wolfgang Tichy

The first direct measurement of gravitational waves by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations has opened up new avenues to explore our Universe. This white paper outlines the challenges and gains expected in gravitational wave searches at…

Gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences provide unique opportunities to test general relativity (GR) in the strong-field regime. In particular, the merger phase, during which two compact objects finally coalesce, corresponds to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-23 Daiki Watarai , Atsushi Nishizawa , Hiroki Takeda , Hayato Imafuku , Kipp Cannon