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Previous studies of the response of the Moon to gravitational waves have been carried out using analytical or semi-analytical models assuming ideal lunar structures. Such models are advantageous for their high-speed calculation but fail to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-24 Lei Zhang , Han Yan , Xian Chen , Jinhai Zhang

The Moon has been long regarded as a natural resonator of gravitational waves (GWs) since 1960, showing great potential to fill the frequency gap left behind GW detections by ground- or space-based laser interferometry. However, the spatial…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-03 Lei Zhang , Jinhai Zhang , Han Yan , Xian Chen

Gravitational waves (GWs) in the $0.01\sim1$ Hz band encode unique signatures of the early universe and merging compact objects, but they are beyond the reach of existing observatories. Theoretical models suggest that the Moon could act as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-22 Lei Zhang , Han Yan , Xian Chen , Jinhai Zhang

The recent success of gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy together with renewed plans for lunar geophysical instrumentation has revived interest in using the Moon as a resonant detector for mid-frequency (mHz-Hz) GWs. In realistic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Han Yan , Jan Harms

The response of the Moon to gravitational waves (GWs) is used by some of the proposed lunar GW detectors like the Lunar Gravitational-wave Antenna (LGWA) to turn the Moon into an antenna for GWs. The deep connection between the lunar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-11 Xiaoming Bi , Jan Harms

In the light of the recent advances in lunar space missions a great interest into using Moon as a future environment for gravitational waves (GWs) detectors has been initiated. Moon offers a unique environment for such detectors due to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-12 Josipa Majstorović , Léon Vidal , Philippe Lognonné

The recent increasing interest in detecting gravitational waves (GWs) by lunar seismic measurement urges us to have a clear understanding of the response of the moon to passing GWs. In this paper, we clarify the relationship between two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-09 Han Yan , Xian Chen , Jinhai Zhang , Fan Zhang , Mengyao Wang , Lijing Shao

It has been suggested to use seismic detectors on the Moon as a tool to search for gravitational waves in an intermediate frequency range between mHz and Hz. Employing three different spherically symmetric models for the lunar interior, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-26 M. Kachelriess , M. P. Nødtvedt

Motivated by the old idea of using the moon as a resonant gravitational-wave (GW) detector, as well as the recent updates in modeling the lunar response to GWs, we re-evaluate the feasibility of using a network of lunar seismometers to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-23 Han Yan , Xian Chen , Jinhai Zhang , Fan Zhang , Lijing Shao , Mengyao Wang

We investigate the wave effects of gravitational waves (GWs) using numerical simulations with the finite element method (FEM) based on the publicly available code {\it deal.ii}. We robustly test our code using a point source monochromatic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-04 Jian-hua He

In order to simulate elastic wave propagation in a complex structure with inhomogeneous media, we often need to obtain the propagating eigenmodes of an elastic waveguide. As the waveguide is assumed uniform in one direction, the original…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 An Qi Ge , Ming Wei Zhuang , Jie Liu , Qing Huo Liu

This paper presents a boundary element method (BEM) for computing the energy transmittance of a singly-periodic grating in 2D for a wide frequency band, which is of engineering interest in various fields with possible applications to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Yuta Honshuku , Hiroshi Isakari

To analyze seismic wave propagation in geological structures, it is possible to consider various numerical approaches: the finite difference method, the spectral element method, the boundary element method, the finite element method, the…

Geophysics · Physics 2011-08-18 Jean-François Semblat

This study introduces a data-driven approach using machine learning (ML) techniques to explore and predict albedo anomalies on the Moon's surface. The research leverages diverse planetary datasets, including high-spatial-resolution albedo…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-12 Sofia Strukova , Sergei Gleyzer , Patrick Peplowski , Jason P. Terry

This paper deals with the spectral element modeling of seismic wave propagation at the global scale. Two aspects relevant to low-frequency studies are particularly emphasized. First, the method is generalized beyond the Cowling…

Geophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Emmanuel Chaljub , Bernard Valette

In the presence of a weak gravitational wave (GW) background, astrophysical binary systems act as high-quality resonators, with efficient transfer of energy and momentum between the orbit and a harmonic GW leading to potentially detectable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-23 Joshua W. Foster , Diego Blas , Adrien Bourgoin , Aurelien Hees , Míriam Herrero-Valea , Alexander C. Jenkins , Xiao Xue

This paper presents transient numerical simulations of hydraulic systems in engineering applications using the spectral element method (SEM). Along with a detailed description of the underlying numerical method, it is shown that the SEM…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-10-24 Jan-Frederik Mennemann , Lukas Marko , Jakob Schmidt , Wolfgang Kemmetmüller , Andreas Kugi

Numerical simulations of waves in highly heterogeneous media have important applications, but direct computations are prohibitively expensive. In this paper, we develop a new generalized multiscale finite element method with the aim of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-09 Eric T. Chung , Wing Tat Leung

New concepts were recently proposed for gravitational-wave (GW) detectors on the Moon. These include laser-interferometric detectors, proposed as free-range or optical-fiber interferometers, and inertial acceleration sensors. Some of them…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-29 Jan Harms

Lunar gravitational-wave (GW) detectors relying on the measurement of the response of the Moon to GWs are susceptible to a seismic background, which might pose a fundamental sensitivity limitation. The Lunar Gravitational-wave Antenna…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 Han Yan , Jan Harms
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