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The detections\citep{KAGRA:2023pio,LIGOScientific:2019lzm} and analysis of gravitational waves(GWs) have introduced us in a new era of our understanding of the cosmos, providing new insights into astrophysical systems involving massive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-07 Osvaldo M. Moreschi

The physical degrees of freedom of a gravitational wave (GW) are imprints of the nature of gravity. We can test a gravity theory by searching for polarization modes beyond general relativity. The LIGO-Virgo collaboration analyzed several GW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-24 Hiroki Takeda , Soichiro Morisaki , Atsushi Nishizawa

Gravitational wave memory is a nonoscillatory correction to the gravitational wave strain predicted by general relativity, which has yet to be detected. Within general relativity, its dominant component, known as the null memory, can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-26 Lavinia Heisenberg , Nicolás Yunes , Jann Zosso

The determination of the polarization modes of gravitational waves (GWs) and their dispersion relations is a crucial task for scrutinizing the viability of extended theories of gravity. A tool to investigate the polarization states of GWs…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-03 Márcio E. S. Alves

General relativity has predicted the existence of gravitational waves (GW), which are waves of the distortions of space-time with two degrees of polarization and the propagation speed of light. Alternative theories predict more…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 K. J. Lee

Gravitational wave (GW) astrophysics is entering a multi-band era with upcoming GW detectors, enabling detailed mapping of the stochastic GW background across vast frequencies. We highlight this potential via a new physics scenario: hybrid…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-26 Yunjia Bao , Tore Boybeyi , Vuk Mandic , Lian-Tao Wang

Modified gravity theories predict in general a non standard equation for the propagation of gravitational waves. Here we discuss the impact of modified friction and speed of tensor modes on cosmic microwave polarization B modes. We show…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Valeria Pettorino , Luca Amendola

Pulsar timing arrays probe isotropic stochastic gravitational wave (GW) backgrounds in the nanohertz band but are insensitive to its parity-violating component. Motivated by recent progress in pulsar polarization arrays, we study the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-06 Qiuyue Liang , Kimihiro Nomura , Hidetoshi Omiya

Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts that gravitational waves (GWs) are tensor-polarized, with two modes of polarization: plus ($h_+$) and cross ($h_\times$). The unmodeled GW burst analysis pipeline, \textit{BayesWave}, offers…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-03 Yi Shuen C. Lee , Siddhant Doshi , Margaret Millhouse , Andrew Melatos

Some recently discovered nonperturbative strong-field effects in tensor-scalar theories of gravitation are interpreted as a scalar analog of ferromagnetism: "spontaneous scalarization". This phenomenon leads to very significant deviations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-24 Thibault Damour , Gilles Esposito-Farese

In this review we look into the gauge-dependence of scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) that are second-order tensors produced by first-order scalar-modes. The method includes deriving the background, first- and second-order Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-27 Anjali Abirami Kugarajh

Second-order tensor modes induced by nonlinear gravity are a key component of the cosmological background of gravitational waves. A detection of this background would allow us to probe the primordial power spectrum at otherwise inaccessible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-05 Atsuhisa Ota , Hayley J. Macpherson , William R. Coulton

We propose a method for separating and detecting the non-tensor modes of stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds (SGWBs) using networks of space-based gravitational-wave detectors. We consider four distinct data-reconstruction schemes for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-24 Bo Mu , Zong-Kuan Guo

Incredible progress on the theoretical uncertainty of the spatial correlations of the stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background were recently made. However, it remains to realize the impact of this theoretical uncertainty on PTA cross…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-16 Reginald Christian Bernardo , Kin-Wang Ng

Parity-violation leaves tell-tale trails in many cosmological observables. We illustrate parity-odd primordial scalar trispectra, that despite being of modest strength, impart detectable chirality to scalar-induced gravitational waves…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 H. V. Ragavendra , Nicola Bartolo

A future detection of the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB) with GW experiments is expected to open a new window on early universe cosmology and on the astrophysics of compact objects. In this paper we study SGWB anisotropies,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 N. Bartolo , D. Bertacca , S. Matarrese , M. Peloso , A. Ricciardone , A. Riotto , G. Tasinato

A method for recognizing the types of linear acoustic gravity waves (AGWs) in the atmosphere from satellite measurements is proposed. It is shown that the polarization relations between fluctuations of wave parameters (velocity, density,…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Yu. O. Klymenko , A. K. Fedorenko , E. I. Kryuchkov , O. K. Cheremnykh , A. D. Voitsekhovska , Yu. O. Selivanov

Twisted gravitational waves (TGWs) are nonplanar waves with twisted rays that move along a fixed direction in space. We study further the physical characteristics of a recent class of Ricci-flat solutions of general relativity representing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-19 Donato Bini , Carmen Chicone , Bahram Mashhoon , Kjell Rosquist

We present a comprehensive theoretical framework for gravitational wave (GW) propagation and their \textbf{nonlinear backreaction} in $f(R, G)$ modified gravity. By developing a scalar-tensor formulation with two auxiliary fields, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-30 Farzad Milani

We obtain an efficient description for the dynamics of nonspinning compact binaries moving in inspiralling eccentric orbits to implement the phasing of gravitational waves from such binaries at the 3.5 post-Newtonian (PN) order. Our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Christian Koenigsdoerffer , Achamveedu Gopakumar
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