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The recent claim by BICEP2 of evidence for primordial gravitational waves from inflation has focused interest on the potential for early-Universe cosmology using observations of gravitational waves. In addition to cosmic microwave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-11 John T. Giblin , Eric Thrane

We calculate the ``seeing'' effect on distant sources due to a gravitational wave background. We derive the limit in strain and energy density of the gravitational wave based on the limit of detectability of this effect with the present day…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Francine Marleau , Glenn Starkman

Inspiraling binaries of compact objects are primary targets for current and future gravitational-wave observatories. Waveforms computed in General Relativity are used to search for these sources, and will probably be used to extract source…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Michele Vallisneri , Nicolas Yunes

We investigate the new observational constraints on $f(T)$ gravity that arise from the effects of primordial gravitational waves (GWs) on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies and the BB spectrum. We first show that on the GWs…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-30 Rafael C. Nunes , Supriya Pan , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We present a proposal for a gravitational wave detector, based on the excitation of an electromagnetic mode in a resonance cavity. The mode is excited due to the interaction between a large amplitude electromagnetic mode and a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 G. Brodin , M. Marklund

Direct detection of gravitational waves by pulsar timing arrays will become feasible over the next few years. In the low frequency regime ($10^{-7}$ Hz -- $10^{-9}$ Hz), we expect that a superposition of gravitational waves from many…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Justin Ellis , Xavier Siemens , Rutger van Haasteren

An effect of geometrical phase shift is predicted for a light beam propagating in the field of a gravitational wave. Gravitational radiation detection experiments are proposed using this new effect, the corresponding estimates being given.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-15 N V Mitskievich , A I Nesterov

Primordial gravitational waves are a crucial prediction of inflation theory, and their detection through their imprints on the cosmic microwave background is actively being pursued. However, these attempts have not yet been successful. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-06 Yan-Heng Yu , Sai Wang

Gravitational waves carry unique information about high-energy astrophysical events such as the inspiral and merger of neutron stars and black holes, core collapse in massive stars, and other sources. Large gravitational wave (GW) detectors…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Peter S. Shawhan

The evolution of scale-invariant gravity waves from the early universe is analyzed using an equation of state which smoothly interpolates between the radiation dominated era and the present matter dominated era. We find that for large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 K. -W. Ng , A. D. Speliotopoulos

The gravitational lensing of gravitational waves might cause beat patterns detectable by interferometers. The feature of this kind of signal is the existence of the beat pattern in the early inspiral phase, followed by a seemingly randomly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-10 Shaoqi Hou , Xi-Long Fan , Kai Liao , Zong-Hong Zhu

Gravitational radiation is a fundamental prediction of General Relativity. Elliptically deformed pulsars are among the possible sources emitting gravitational waves (GWs) with a strain-amplitude dependent upon the star's quadrupole moment,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Plamen G. Krastev , Bao-An Li , Aaron Worley

When a neutron star is compressed to huge densities, it may be converted to a strange star. In property of the event/year rate of a neutron star - strange star binary system, we show that the operational phase of advanced gravitational wave…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 P. H. R. S. Moraes , O. D. Miranda

Gravitational waves encode invaluable information about the nature of the relatively unexplored extreme gravity regime, where the gravitational interaction is strong, non-linear and highly dynamical. Recent gravitational wave observations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-25 Katie Chamberlain , Nicolas Yunes

The recent direct detection of gravitational waves (GWs) from binary black hole mergers (2016, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, no. 6, 061102; no. 24, 241103) opens up an entirely new non-electromagnetic window into the Universe making it possible to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 Plamen G. Krastev , Bao-An Li

It is shown that the expected amplitudes and specific correlation properties of the relic (squeezed) gravitational wave background may allow the registration of the relic gravitational waves by the first generation of sensitive gravity-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 L. P. Grishchuk

The recent LIGO-Virgo detection of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral event GW170817 and the discovery of its accompanying electromagnetic signals mark a new era for multimessenger astronomy. In the coming years,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-08 Xing-Jiang Zhu , Eric Thrane , Stefan Osłowski , Yuri Levin , Paul D. Lasky

Gravitational waves (GWs) are direct probes of cosmological gravity, sensitive to space-time inhomogeneities along their propagation. The presence of massive objects breaks homogeneity and isotropy, allowing for new interactions between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-12 Nicola Menadeo , Serena Giardino , Miguel Zumalacárregui

A new generation of observatories is looking for gravitational waves. These waves, emitted by highly relativistic systems, will open a new window for ob- servation of the cosmos when they are detected. Among the most promising sources of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-11 Warren G. Anderson , Jolien D. E. Creighton