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We present a study of the use and limits of the Time-Delay Interferometry null channels for in flight estimation of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna instrumental noise. The paper considers how the two main limiting noise sources,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-03 Martina Muratore , Olaf Hartwig , Daniele Vetrugno , Stefano Vitale , William Joseph Weber

The discovery of gravitational waves, which are ripples of space-time itself, opened a new window to test general relativity, because it predicts that there are only plus and cross polarizations for gravitational waves. For alternative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-01 Chunyu Zhang , Qing Gao , Yungui Gong , Bin Wang , Alan J. Weinstein , Chao Zhang

Alternative theories of gravity not only modify the polarization contents of the gravitational wave, but also affect the motions of the stars and the energy radiated away via the gravitational radiation. These aspects leave imprints in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-28 Shaoqi Hou , Yungui Gong

This review is focused on tests of Einstein's theory of General Relativity with gravitational waves that are detectable by ground-based interferometers and pulsar timing experiments. Einstein's theory has been greatly constrained in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Nicolas Yunes , Xavier Siemens

We develop a model-independent test of General Relativity that allows for the constraint of the gravitational wave (GW) polarization content with GW detections of binary compact object inspirals. We first consider three modified gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-16 Katerina Chatziioannou , Nicolas Yunes , Neil Cornish

Gravitational waves perturb the paths of photons, impacting both the time-of-flight and the arrival direction of light from stars. Pulsar timing arrays can detect gravitational waves by measuring the variations in the time of flight of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-18 Logan O'Beirne , Neil J. Cornish

Polarization wiggling is an observational effect of a gravitational field on the polarization of electromagnetic radiation traversing it. We find that in linear gravity, the polarization wiggle rate contributions from scalar, vector and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-27 Kjell Tangen

The equations for gravitational plane waves produced by a typical binary system as a solution of linear approximation of Einstein equations is derived. The dynamics of the corresponding gravitational field is analyzed in a 4-dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-23 S. Nayeh , A. Latifi , S. Arbabi , M. Ghominejad

In this work, we have built an experimental setup to simulate the clock noise transmission with two spacecrafts and two optical links, and further demonstrated the extraction of picometer level signal drowned by the large laser frequency…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-31 Mingyang Xu , Yujie Tan , Yurong Liang , Jiawen Zhi , Xiaoyang Guo , Dan Luo , Panpan Wang , Hanzhong Wu , Chenggang Shao

Laser frequency noise suppression is a critical requirement for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission to detect gravitational waves. The baseline laser stabilization is achieved using cavity pre-stabilization and a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-05 Jobin Thomas Valliyakalayil , Andrew Wade , David Rabeling , Jue Zhang , Daniel Shaddock , Kirk McKenzie

Tilt-to-length (TTL) noise induced by angular jitter of spacecraft and test masses can affect the sensitivity of space-based gravitational-wave detectors such as LISA, Taiji, and TianQin. Such angular jitter can be measured using the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-09 Xue Wang , Gang Wang

In this study, we investigate the polarization properties of gravitational waves within a torsionless spacetime framework, as described by the Palatini formalism. Our analysis uncovers the presence of two novel polarization modes, referred…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-06 Yu-Qi Dong , Xiao-Bin Lai , Yu-Zhi Fan , Yu-Xiao Liu

A laser interferometric detector of gravitational waves is studied and a complete solution (to first order in the metric perturbation) of the coupled Einstein-Maxwell equations with appropriate boundary conditions for the light beams is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 F. I. Cooperstock , V. Faraoni

Gravitational wave detectors (GWDs), which have brought about a new era in astronomy, have reached such a level of maturity that further improvement necessitates quantum-noise-evading techniques. Numerous proposals to this end have been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-26 Emil Zeuthen , Eugene S. Polzik , Farid Ya. Khalili

We have begun an exciting era for gravitational wave detection, as several world-leading experiments are breaching the threshold of anticipated signal strengths. Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are pan-Galactic gravitational wave detectors that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-26 Sarah Burke-Spolaor

Time-delay interferometry (TDI) is a crucial step in the on-ground data processing pipeline of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), as it reduces otherwise overwhelming laser noise and allows for the detection of gravitational…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-22 Martin Staab , Marc Lilley , Jean-Baptiste Bayle , Olaf Hartwig

The prospects for direct measurements of inflationary gravitational waves by next generation interferometric detectors inferred from the possible detection of B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background are studied. We compute…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-10 Sachiko Kuroyanagi , Shinji Tsujikawa , Takeshi Chiba , Naoshi Sugiyama

This review is focused on tests of Einstein's theory of general relativity with gravitational waves that are detectable by ground-based interferometers and pulsar-timing experiments. Einstein's theory has been greatly constrained in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-13 Nicolas Yunes , Xavier Siemens , Kent Yagi

The direct observation of gravitational waves with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo offers novel opportunities to test general relativity in strong-field, highly dynamical regimes. One such opportunity is the measurement of…

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