Testing gravity with gravitational wave friction and gravitational slip

Testing Gravity with Gravitational Wave Source Counts

We show that the gravitational wave source counts distribution can test how gravitational radiation propagates on cosmological scales. This test does not require obtaining redshifts for the sources. If the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR, ρ) from a gravitational wave source is proportional to the strain then it falls as R−1, thus we expect the source counts to follow dN/dρ ∝ ρ−4. However, if gravita...

Testing Theories of Gravity with a Spherical Gravitational Wave Detector

We consider the possibility of discriminating different theories of gravity using a recently proposed gravitational wave detector of spherical shape. We argue that the spin content of different theories can be extracted relating the measurements of the excited spheroidal vibrational eigenmodes to the Newman-Penrose parameters. The sphere toroidal modes cannot be excited by any metric GW and can...

Gravitational-wave probe of effective quantum gravity

Testing post-Newtonian theory with gravitational wave observations

The Laser Interferometric Space Antenna (LISA) will observe supermassive black hole binary mergers with amplitude signal-to-noise ratio of several thousands. We investigate the extent to which such observations afford high-precision tests of Einstein’s gravity. We show that LISA provides a unique opportunity to probe the non-linear structure of post-Newtonian theory both in the context of gener...

Gravitational wave radiometry: Mapping a stochastic gravitational wave background

Sanjit Mitra,* Sanjeev Dhurandhar, Tarun Souradeep, Albert Lazzarini,3,x Vuk Mandic,3,k Sukanta Bose,4,{ and Stefan Ballmer** Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Post Bag 4, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411007, India Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, BP 4229, 06304 Nice Cedex 4, France LIGO Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, MS 18-34, Pasadena, California 91125, USA Departme...