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Various models for electromagnetic emissions correlated with the gravitational wave signals expected to be detectable by the current and planned gravitational wave detectors are studied. The position error on the location of a gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Julien Sylvestre

A network of large-scale laser interferometers is currently employed for searches of gravitational waves from various astrophysical sources. The frequency dependence of the dynamic response of these detectors introduces corrections to their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-22 Malik Rakhmanov

In this work, we propose a novel experimental set-up using charged resonant gravitational wave detectors. We exploit the semi-classical analogue of the Gertsenshtein effect where the gravitational wave acts as an modulator for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-07 Soham Sen

We present an overview of quantum noise in gravitational wave interferometers. Gravitational wave detectors are extensively modified variants of a Michelson interferometer and the quantum noise couplings are strongly influenced by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Thomas Corbitt , Nergis Mavalvala

Gravitational wave (GW) detections have enriched our understanding of the universe. To date, all single-source GW events were found by interferometer-type detectors. We study a detection method using astrometric solutions from photometric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-13 Yijun Wang , Kris Pardo , Tzu-Ching Chang , Olivier Doré

Gravitational waves provide a laboratory for general relativity and a window to energetic astrophysical phenomena invisible with electromagnetic radiation. Several terrestrial detectors are currently under construction, and a space-based…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 R. R. Caldwell , Marc Kamionkowski , Leven Wadley

The suppression of relic gravitational waves due to their conversion into electromagnetic radiation in a cosmological magnetic field is studied. The coupled system of equations describing gravitational and electromagnetic wave propagation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-27 A. D. Dolgov , L. A. Panasenko , V. A. Bochko

The response of Michelson interferometers to weak plane gravitational waves is computed at one order of accuracy beyond the eikonal equation. The modulation of the electromagnetic field amplitude and polarisation are taken into account by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-12 Thomas Mieling

Astrometric observations can, in principle, be used to detect gravitational waves. In this paper we give a practical overview of the gravitational wave effects which can be expected specifically in small-field astrometric data. Particular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-12 Robin Geyer , Sven Zschocke , Michael Soffel , Sergei Klioner , Lennart Lindegren , Uwe Lammers

Gravitational waves are a sensitive probe into the structure of compact astronomical objects and the nature of gravity in the strong regime. Modifications of near-horizon physics can imprint on the late time ringdown waveform, leaving…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-29 Yu-Xin Huang , Jiu-Ci Xu , Shuang-Yong Zhou

We present an extension of a previously suggested test of all modified theories of gravity that would reproduce MOND at low accelerations. In a class of models, called "dark matter emulators", gravitational waves and other particles couple…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-28 E. O. Kahya

When gravitational waves pass near a gravitating object, they are deflected, or lensed. If the object is massive, such that the wavelength of the waves is small compared to its gravitational size, lensed gravitational wave events can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-22 Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung , Ken K. Y. Ng , Miguel Zumalacárregui , Emanuele Berti

We present an algorithm for the detection of periodic sources of gravitational waves with interferometric detectors that is based on a special symmetry of the problem: the contributions to the phase modulation of the signal from the earth…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Julien Sylvestre

We propose a tunable resonant sensor to detect gravitational waves in the frequency range of 50-300 kHz using optically trapped and cooled dielectric microspheres or micro-discs. The technique we describe can exceed the sensitivity of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Asimina Arvanitaki , Andrew A. Geraci

A successful experiment combining emission and reception of gravitational waves (GWs) would constitute a premiere of gravity control. However, such experiments manipulating gravity would require to compactly store large amounts of energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-24 A. Füzfa

The strong evidence for low-frequency gravitational waves from pulsar timing arrays (PTAs), published in 2023, has widened the scope for teaching about gravitational wave astronomy. This article provides a simple, unified overview of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-27 Markus Pössel

Time-delay interferometry is put forward to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of space-borne gravitational wave detectors by canceling the large laser phase noise with different combinations of measured data. Based on the Michelson data…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-08 Xiao-Yu Lu , Yu-Jie Tan , Cheng-Gang Shao

Wave-mechanical effects in gravitational lensing have long been predicted, and with the discovery of populations of compact transients such as gravitational wave events and fast radio bursts, may soon be observed. We present an observer's…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-04 Calvin Leung , Dylan Jow , Prasenjit Saha , Liang Dai , Masamune Oguri , Léon V. E. Koopmans

Gravitational Wave Astronomy is becoming a reality as Earth-based interferometric gravitational-wave detectors reach the design sensitivities and move towards advanced configurations that may lead to gravitational-wave detections in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-08-05 Carlos F. Sopuerta

We derive gravitational waves in a theory with non-local curvature corrections to the Hilbert-Einstein Lagrangian. In addition to the standard two massless tensor modes, with plus and cross polarizations, helicity 2 and angular frequency…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-01 Salvatore Capozziello , Maurizio Capriolo