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Given that gravitational waves are the future probes of the universe, it is important to test various physical effects of these on matter. This article explores the first-order perturbation, caused by a planar gravitational wave, on…

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We derive in this an expression for the rotation of plane of polarization, of an electromagnetic wave, induced by the field of a gravitational wave propagating along the same direction $\approx \f{G\mu d^2\Omega^4}{3\o}$, $\o$ and $\Omega$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-17 A. R. Prasanna , S. Mohanty

We investigate the scalar induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) in the Chern-Simons (CS) modified gravity during the radiation dominated era. The SIGWs are circularly polarized, which provide us a tool to test the possible parity violation in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-19 Fengge Zhang , Jia-Xi Feng , Xian Gao

The direct detection of gravitational waves by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration has opened a new window with which to measure cosmological parameters such as the Hubble constant $H_0$, and also probe general relativity on large scales. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-14 S. Mastrogiovanni , D. Steer , M. Barsuglia

General relativity (GR) has been extensively tested in the solar system and in binary pulsars, but never in the strong-field, dynamical regime. Soon, gravitational-wave (GW) detectors like Advanced LIGO and eLISA will be able to probe this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Ryan N. Lang

Gravitational waves are perturbations in the spacetime that propagate at the speed of light. The study of such phenomenon is interesting because many cosmological processes and astrophysical objects, such as binary systems, are potential…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-27 E. F. D. Evangelista , J. C. N. de Araujo

We investigate axion-like particles coupled to gravity through a parity-violating Chern-Simons (CS) interaction. In this framework, axion dark matter (DM) can decay into pairs of circularly polarized gravitons, producing a persistent,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-15 Marco Figliolia , Francesco Grippa , Gaetano Lambiase , Luca Visinelli

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

Several observational phenomena suggest that the standard model of cosmology and particle physics requires revision. To address this, we consider the extension of general relativity known as massive gravity (MG). In this Letter, we explore…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-04 Chris Choi , Tina Kahniashvili

We describe the properties of evanescent gravitational waves (EGWs)---wave solutions of Einstein equations which decay exponentially in some direction while propagating in another. Evanescent waves are well-known in acoustics and optics and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-30 Sebastian Golat , Eugene A. Lim , Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño

Recently the international pulsar timing array collaboration has announced the first strong evidence for an isotropic gravitational wave background (GWB). We propose that rapid small oscillations (wiggles) in the Hubble parameter would…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-23 Gen Ye , Alessandra Silvestri

We investigate the nature of additional scalar degrees of freedom contained in extended hybrid metric-Palatini gravity, outlining the emergence of two coupled dynamical scalar modes. In particular, we discuss the weak field limit of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-17 Flavio Bombacigno , Fabio Moretti , Giovanni Montani

In the current work we investigate the propagation of electromagnetic waves in the field of gravitational waves. Starting with simple case of an electromagnetic wave travelling in the field of a plane monochromatic gravitational wave we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. G. Polnarev , D. Baskaran

Modified gravitational wave propagation is a smoking gun of modifications of gravity at cosmological scales, and can be the most promising observable for testing such theories. The observation of gravitational waves (GW) in recent years has…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-18 Francesco Iacovelli , Andreas Finke , Stefano Foffa , Michele Maggiore , Michele Mancarella

The frequencies of quasi-periodic oscillations around neutron stars are believed to be related to characteristic frequencies in the gravitational fields of the compact objects. In different variability models, these include the Keplerian,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Simon DeDeo , Dimitrios Psaltis

Gravitational-wave (GW) detections of binary neutron star coalescences play a crucial role to constrain the microscopic interaction of matter at ultrahigh density. Similarly, if boson stars exist in the universe their coalescence can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-17 Costantino Pacilio , Massimo Vaglio , Andrea Maselli , Paolo Pani

Cosmological solitonic objects such as monopoles, cosmic strings, domain walls, oscillons and Q-balls often appear in theories of the early Universe. We demonstrate that such scenarios are generically accompanied by a novel production…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-28 Kaloian D. Lozanov , Misao Sasaki , Volodymyr Takhistov

We analyse the effect of post-Newtonian gravitational fields on propagation of light in a cylindrical waveguide in both a straight configuration and a spool configuration. We derive an equation for the dependence of the wave vector upon the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-03 Robert Beig , Piotr T. Chruściel , Christopher Hilweg , Philipp Kornreich , Philip Walther

Gravitational Waves (GWs) provide a unique way to explore our Universe. The ongoing ground-based detectors, e.g., LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA, and the upcoming next-generation detectors, e.g., Cosmic Explorer and Einstein Telescope, as well as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-02 Zhenwei Li , Xuefei Chen

We show that the parametric resonance of gravitational waves occurs due to the axion coherent oscillation and the circular polarization of gravitational waves is induced by the Chern-Simons coupling. However, we have never observed these…

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