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The gravitational radiation from compact pulsar-like stars depends on the state of dense matter at supranuclear densities, i.e., the nature of pulsar (e.g., either normal neutron stars or quark stars). The solid quark star model is focused…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. X. Xu

Gravitational wave generation by a strong shock wave in the interaction of high power laser with matter is analyzed in linear approximation of gravitational theory. The analytical formulas and estimates are derived for the metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-24 Hedvika Kadlecová , Ondřej Klimo , Stefan Weber , Georg Korn

We review the kinematic effects on a gravitational wave due to either a peculiar motion of the astrophysical source emitting it or a local motion of the observer. Working in the context of general relativity, we show at fully non-linear…

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Interstellar turbulence has implications for the dispersal and mixing of the elements, cloud chemistry, cosmic ray scattering, and radio wave propagation through the ionized medium. This review discusses the observations and theory of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 John Scalo , Bruce G. Elmegreen

Based on the relationship between proper distance and coordinate distance, the geometrical phenomenon caused by the passing gravitational waves can not be observed locally. The electromagnetic wave equations in the background gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-13 Wenyu Wang , Yang Xu

We study the gravitational waves in modified Gauss-Bonnet gravity. Applying the metric perturbation around a cosmological background, we obtain explicit expressions for the wave equations. It is shown that the speed of the traceless mode is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-25 Tomohiro Inagaki , Masahiko Taniguchi

Gravitational waves from a source moving relative to us can suffer from special-relativistic effects such as aberration. The required velocities for these to be significant are on the order of $1000\,\textrm{km s}^{-1}$. This value…

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Using a metric perturbation method, we study gravitational waves from a test particle scattered by a spherically symmetric relativistic star. We calculate the energy spectrum and the waveform of gravitational waves for axial modes. Since…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Kazuhiro Tominaga , Motoyuki Saijo , Kei-ichi Maeda

We derive the complete spectrum of gravitational waves induced by primordial scalar perturbations ranging over all observable wavelengths. This scalar-induced contribution can be computed directly from the observed scalar perturbations and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel Baumann , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Paul J. Steinhardt , Keitaro Takahashi

The rate of gravitational wave absorption by inverse bremsstrahlung is calculated. It increases with decreasing frequency $\nu$ as $\nu^{-3}$. Nevertheless, because of the near cancellation of absorption by stimulated emission, the ionized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-03 Raphael Flauger , Steven Weinberg

Stochastic gravitational wave background produced by a stationary coalescing population of binary neutron stars in the Galaxy is calculated. This background is found to constitute a confusion limit within the LISA frequency band up to a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 V. B. Ignatiev , A. G. Kuranov , K. A. Postnov , M. E. Prokhorov

Angular fluctuations of stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds (GWB) produced by extragalactic astrophysical sources are calculated. The angular properties of such backgrounds are determined by the large scale structure of Universe…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. I. Kosenko , K. A. Postnov

In general relativity (GR), gravitational waves (GWs) propagate the well-known plus and cross polarization modes which are the signature of a massless spin-2 field. However, diffraction of GWs caused by intervening objects along the line of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-12 Charles Dalang , Giulia Cusin , Macarena Lagos

The gravitational wave memory effect is characterized by the permanent relative displacement of a pair of initially comoving test particles that is caused by the passage of a burst of gravitational waves. Recent research on this effect has…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-27 Éanna É. Flanagan , Alexander M. Grant , Abraham I. Harte , David A. Nichols

Evidence for free precession has been observed in the radio signature of several pulsars. Freely precessing pulsars radiate gravitationally at frequencies near the rotation rate and twice the rotation rate, which for rotation frequencies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Chris Van Den Broeck

It is investigated the gravitational waves phenomena in the geometric scalar theory of gravity (GSG), a class of theories such that gravity is described by a single scalar field. The associated physical metric describing the spacetime is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-16 Júnior Diniz Toniato

A stochastic gravitational wave background causes the apparent positions of distant sources to fluctuate, with angular deflections of order the characteristic strain amplitude of the gravitational waves. These fluctuations may be detectable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-28 Laura G. Book , Éanna É. Flanagan

Wave propagation of field disturbances is ubiquitous. The electromagnetic and gravitational are cousin theories in which the corresponding waves play a relevant role to understand several related physical. It has been established that small…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-22 W. Barreto , H. P. de Oliveira , E. L. Rodrigues

With the gauge-invariant perturbation theory, we study the effects of the stellar magnetic fields on the polar gravitational waves emitted during the homogeneous dust collapse. We found that the emitted energy in gravitational waves depends…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-04-28 Hajime Sotani