Bounding the mass of the graviton with gravitational waves: effect of higher harmonics in gravitational waveform templates

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/26/15/155002MaRDI QIDQ3393282zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors K. G. Arun, Clifford M. Will

Publication date 19 August 2009

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.1190

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05) Gravitational waves (83C35)

Abstract: Observations by laser interferometric detectors of gravitational waves from inspiraling compact binary systems can be used to search for a dependence of the waves' propagation speed on wavelength, and thereby to bound the mass or Compton wavelength of a putative graviton. We study the effect of including higher harmonics, as well as their post-Newtonian amplitude corrections, in the template gravitational waveforms employed in the process of parameter estimation using matched filtering. We consider the bounds that could be achieved using advanced LIGO, a proposed third generation instrument called Einstein Telescope, and the proposed space interferometer LISA. We find that in all cases, the bounds on the graviton Compton wavelength are improved by almost an order of magnitude for higher masses when amplitude corrections are included.

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