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It is well-known that gravitational waves can induce electromagnetic perturbations in magnetised plasmas, with production occurring via the direct coupling of gravitational waves to the background magnetic field: this is the so-called…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-06 J. I. McDonald

The Gaia mission offers a new opportunity to search for the low frequency gravitational wave background using astrometric measurements. In this paper, the astrometric effect of gravitational waves is reviewed, with a particular focus on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-27 Deyan P. Mihaylov , Christopher J. Moore , Jonathan R. Gair , Anthony Lasenby , Gerard Gilmore

The existence of large--scale magnetic fields in the universe has led to the observation that if gravitational waves propagating in a cosmological environment encounter even a small magnetic field then electromagnetic radiation is produced.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-29 C. Barrabes , P. A. Hogan

Gravitons are the quantum counterparts of gravitational waves in low-energy theories of gravity. Using Feynman rules one can compute scattering amplitudes describing the interaction between gravitons and other fields. Here, we consider the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-18 Nicola Bartolo , Ahmad Hoseinpour , Giorgio Orlando , Sabino Matarrese , Moslem Zarei

High-frequency gravitational waves ($f \gtrsim 1$ MHz) may provide a unique signature for the existence of exotic physics. The lack of current and future gravitational-wave experiments sensitive at those frequencies leads to the need of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-29 Alessandro Lella , Francesca Calore , Pierluca Carenza , Alessandro Mirizzi

We apply the inverse Gertsenshtein effect, i.e., the graviton-photon conversion in the presence of a magnetic field, to constrain high-frequency gravitational waves (HFGWs). Using existing astrophysical measurements, we compute upper limits…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-25 Yutong He , Sambit K. Giri , Ramkishor Sharma , Salome Mtchedlidze , Ivelin Georgiev

Graviton-photon oscillation is the conversion of gravitational waves to electromagnetic waves and vice versa in the presence of a background electromagnetic field. We investigate this phenomenon in a cosmological scenario considering a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-10 José A. R. Cembranos , Miguel González Ortiz , Prado Martín-Moruno

We consider the scattering of the gravitational waves by the weak gravitational fields of lens objects. We obtain the scattered gravitational waveform by treating the gravitational potential of the lens to first order, i.e. using the Born…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ryuichi Takahashi , Teruaki Suyama , Shugo Michikoshi

We investigate graviton-photon oscillations sourced by cosmological magnetic fields from Gertsenshtein effect. We adopt a robust perturbative approach and we find that the conversion probability from graviton to photon can be resonantly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-30 Andrea Addazi , Salvatore Capozziello , Qingyu Gan

We explicitly compute the plasma wave (PW) induced by a plane gravitational wave (GW) travelling through a region of strongly magnetized plasma, governed by force-free electrodynamics. The PW co-moves with the GW and absorbs its energy to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-29 Fan Zhang

The scattering of electromagnetic radiation by the particle gyrating in an external magnetic field is considered. Particular attention is paid to the low-frequency case, when the frequencies of incident radiation are much less than the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. A. Petrova

The observation of gravitational waves has opened a new window into the Universe through gravitational-wave astronomy. However, high-frequency gravitational waves remain undetected. In this work, we propose that spin systems can be employed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-14 Jiamin Liang , Mingqiu Li , Yu Gao , Wei Ji , Sichun Sun , Qi-Shu Yan

Propagation of light in the gravitational field of self-gravitating spinning bodies moving with arbitrary velocities is discussed. The gravitational field is assumed to be "weak" everywhere. Equations of motion of a light ray are solved in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sergei Kopeikin , Bahram Mashhoon

We investigate the influence of cosmic magnetic fields on gravitational wave perturbations, and find exact solutions on large scales. We show that a large-scale magnetic field can generate large-scale non-decaying gravitational waves. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Roy Maartens , Christos Tsagas , Carlo Ungarelli

We explore a novel process in the early Universe in which thermalized photons are converted into gravitons in the presence of strong primordial magnetic fields. It is found that the frequency of generated gravitational waves (GWs) is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-19 Tomohiro Fujita , Kohei Kamada , Yuichiro Nakai

Gravitational field can cause a rotation of polarisation plane of light. This phenomenon is known as the gravitational Faraday effect. We study the gravitational Faraday effect of linearly polarised light propagating in the gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-20 Andrey A. Shoom

We discuss the conversion mechanism from scalar field to gravitational waves in magnetic background in $f(R)$ gravity minimal coupled to the Maxwell electrodynamics. Applying the conversion in early universe with primordial magnetic field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-01 Salvatore Capozziello , Qingyu Gan

In the vicinity of merging neutron strar binaries or supernova remnants, gravitational waves can interact with the prevailing strong magnetic fields. The resulting partial conversion of gravitational waves into electromagnetic (radio) waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Joachim Moortgat

Given the recent direct measurement of gravitational waves (GWs) by the LIGO-VIRGO collab- oration, the coupling between electromagnetic fields and gravity have a special relevance since it opens new perspectives for future GW detectors and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-18 Francisco Cabral , Francisco S. N. Lobo

We reinvestigate the gravitational waves (GWs) induced by charged particles in storage rings. There are two major components in such GWs. One is the gravitational synchrotron radiation (GSR), i.e., the direct emission by the bending of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-25 Pisin Chen