Opportunities for detecting ultralong gravitational waves
Abstract
The effect of superlong gravitational waves on the propagation of electromagnetic pulses is analyzed. The change in period of pulses transmitted with constant period through a gravitational wave field is calculated in a geometrical optics approximation. Conditions under which detection of gravitational waves from binaries is possible by studying the phase modulation of transmitted pulses are derived. It is shown that it might be possible to detect gravitational radiation from binary superstars whose masses are about 10 billion solar masses.
- Publication:
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Soviet Astronomy
- Pub Date:
- February 1978
- Bibcode:
- 1978SvA....22...36S
- Keywords:
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- Binary Stars;
- Electromagnetic Pulses;
- Gravitational Waves;
- Long Wave Radiation;
- Radiation Detectors;
- Supermassive Stars;
- Propagation Modes;
- Pulsars;
- Stellar Mass;
- Supergiant Stars;
- Astrophysics