{"title":"Characteristics of tilt-to-length coupling coefficients for different time-delay interferometry combinations for LISA","authors":"Hao-Kang Chen, Pan-Pan Wang and Cheng-Gang Shao","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/ae008b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ae008b","url":null,"abstract":"Tilt-to-length (TTL) noise is one of the dominant noise sources in space-based gravitational wave (GW) detection. Methods such as the least squares estimator and the instrumental variables estimator can be employed to subtract TTL noise. A prerequisite for practical subtraction is the accurate estimation of the TTL coupling coefficients, whose characteristics depend on the performance of the specific time-delay interferometry (TDI) combinations. For instance, the Michelson-type TDI combinations allow the precise estimation of twelve TTL coefficients, while the Monitor-type and Relay-type combinations enable the estimation of sixteen TTL coefficients. This study systematically investigates the TTL coupling characteristics across forty-five geometric TDI combinations. We establish an exhaustive classification framework identifying each combination’s estimable TTL coefficient forms. Our findings reveal that among the combinations studied, only the Michelson-type combinations and present two TTL coefficients that are indistinguishable from one another. In contrast, we demonstrate that fully symmetric Sagnac combinations facilitate the estimation of all twenty-four TTL coefficients. Moreover, simulation results indicate that applying the least squares method subtracts TTL noise effectively, meeting the requirements of space-based GW detection.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145035321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cosmology in loop quantum gravity: symmetry reduction preserving gauge degrees of freedom","authors":"Matteo Bruno","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/ae0088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ae0088","url":null,"abstract":"In this manuscript, we address the issue of the loss of SU(2) internal symmetry in loop quantum cosmology and its relationship with loop quantum gravity. Drawing inspiration from Yang–Mills theory and employing the framework of fiber bundle theory, we propose a new gauge-invariant symmetry-reduction approach. Using this method, we successfully identify a cosmological sector of general relativity in terms of Ashtekar variables that preserves the SU(2) structure of the theory as well as part of the diffeomorphism gauge symmetry. Additionally, we analyze the properties of cylindrical functions and the classical constraint algebra, revealing that certain cylindrical functions exhibit distinctive symmetry features.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145035320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T M Abreu, G Oliveira-Neto, A C R Mendes and S C Reis
{"title":"Noncommutative effects in Bianchi I cosmology with reduced relativistic gas","authors":"T M Abreu, G Oliveira-Neto, A C R Mendes and S C Reis","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/adfff9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/adfff9","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, we investigate the effects of phase space noncommutativity on the dynamics of a Bianchi I (BI) cosmological model coupled to a reduced relativistic gas (RRG). The BI model provides a homogeneous but anisotropic framework suitable for exploring the transition from an early anisotropic Universe to the current isotropic stage. The RRG fluid interpolates between radiation and matter regimes, enabling a consistent treatment of the transition from the radiation-dominated to the matter-dominated era. In order to incorporate noncommutativity into the classical equations of motion, we employ the generalized symplectic formalism developed by Faddeev–Jackiw and extended by Barcelos–Wotzasek, which allows the introduction of noncommutative (NC) parameters via deformations in the symplectic structure. Within this approach, we derive a modified Hamiltonian expressed in terms of commutative variables that incorporate all NC effects. We then solve the resulting equations numerically and analyze the behavior of the scale factor and the anisotropic functions under variations of the NC parameters, as well as other physical and initial parameters of the model. Our results show that negative values of the NC parameters increase the expansion rate and reduce the isotropization timescale, partially mimicking the effect of a positive cosmological constant. We also estimate values for the NC parameters by numerically solving the integral expression for the age of the Universe, requiring consistency with observational data from the Planck 2018 mission. These findings support the possibility that noncommutativity may provide a geometric mechanism capable of accounting for the late-time acceleration and isotropization of the Universe, without requiring additional exotic energy components.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145035319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"κ-general-relativity I: a non-commutative GR theory with the κ-Minkowski spacetime as its flat limit","authors":"Daniel Rozental and Ofek Birnholtz","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/adffdf","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/adffdf","url":null,"abstract":"We employ a twist deformation of infinitesimal diffeomorphisms to construct a modification of general relativity on a non-commutative spacetime extending the local κ-Minkowski geometry. This spacetime arises in deformed special relativity (DSR) models, where a fundamental length scale is incorporated into SR as an effective description of quantum gravitational effects. To avoid the mathematical and physical inconsistencies associated with twisting the Poincaré group, we instead deform the dilatation-enlarged IGL(3,1) group, constructing a covariant and explicitly consistent gravitational theory (distinct from Weyl gravity). The relativistic consistency of the twisted κ-Minkowski spacetime is demonstrated, including deformed transformations and differential structures. A physically motivated Inönü–Wigner contraction procedure is suggested to enable a well-defined classical limit, addressing the correspondence issue. This framework provides a consistent foundation for a dynamical sector of DSR and allows, in future treatment, explicit computations that could advance phenomenological predictions.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"70 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145032167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Associativity is enough: an all-orders 2d chiral algebra for 4d form factors","authors":"Víctor E Fernández and Natalie M Paquette","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/ae0089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ae0089","url":null,"abstract":"There is a special set of massless four-dimensional gauge theories which admit local and gauge-anomaly-free uplifts to twistor space; we call such theories twistorial. In twistorial theories, generalized towers of soft modes (including states of both helicities) form a 2d chiral algebra even at the quantum level. The 2d OPE limit of this chiral algebra coincides with the holomorphic collinear limit in 4d. This is true, in particular, for self-dual Yang–Mills theory coupled to special choices of matter, the latter being required to make the theory twistorial. Costello and the second author recently proposed that form factors of such twistorial 4d theories could be computed as 2d chiral algebra correlators. In turn, there exist form factors of self-dual theories, with insertions of appropriate local operators, that compute a subclass of observables in full (i.e. non-self-dual) QCD, coupled to appropriate matter. For example, the n-point two-loop all-plus QCD amplitude has recently been computed using the 1-loop chiral algebra OPEs determined thus far, but higher orders of the quantum-deformed chiral algebra must be determined to continue the ‘chiral algebra bootstrap’ program for higher-loop-level form factors of these twistorial theories. In this paper, using only elementary constraints from symmetries and associativity, we obtain closed-form expressions for the extended chiral algebra to arbitrary loop-order. This can be viewed as providing an all-loop result for a subset of collinear splitting functions in non-supersymmetric, massless QCD coupled to special choices of matter.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"130 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145032168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Periodic equatorial orbits in a black bounce scenario","authors":"Anderson Bragado and Gonzalo J Olmo","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/adffde","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/adffde","url":null,"abstract":"We study equatorial closed orbits in a popular black bounce model to see if the internal structure of these objects could lead to peculiar observable features. Paralleling the analysis of the Schwarzschild and Kerr metrics, we show that in the black bounce case each orbit can also be associated with a triplet of integers which can then be used to construct a rational number characterizing each periodic orbit. When the black bounce solution represents a traversable wormhole, we show that the previous classification scheme is still applicable with minor adaptations. We confirm in this way that this established framework enables a complete description of the equatorial dynamics across a spectrum of cases, from regular black holes to wormholes. Varying the black bounce parameter , we compare the trajectories in the Simpson–Visser model with those in the Schwarzschild metric (and the rotating case with Kerr). We find that in some cases even small increments in can lead to significant changes in the orbits.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145032186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reconstructing source motion from gravitational wave strain","authors":"Joe Bayley, Chris Messenger and Graham Woan","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/adff33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/adff33","url":null,"abstract":"Searches for un-modelled burst gravitational wave (GW) signals return potential candidates for short-duration signals. As there is no clear model for the source in these searches, one needs to understand and reconstruct the system that produced the GWs. Here, we aim to reconstruct the source motion and masses of a system based only on its GW strain. We train a normalising flow on two models, including circular orbits and random unphysical motion of two point masses. These models are used as a toy problem to illustrate the technique. We then reconstruct a distribution of possible motions of masses that can produce the given GW signal. We demonstrate the ability to reconstruct the full distribution of possible mass motions from strain data across multiple GW detectors. This distribution encompasses the degenerate motions that are expected to produce identical GW strains.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145032169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David Radice, Rossella Gamba, Hengrui Zhu and Alireza Rashti
{"title":"AthenaK simulations of the binary black hole merger GW150914","authors":"David Radice, Rossella Gamba, Hengrui Zhu and Alireza Rashti","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/adfffa","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/adfffa","url":null,"abstract":"We present new binary black hole simulations targeted to GW150914 using the GPU-accelerated code AthenaK. We compute the properties of the final remnant with the isolated horizon formalism and obtain gravitational-waveforms at future null infinity via Cauchy characteristic extraction. We compare our results with those obtained by the Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS) and Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) groups, targeted to the same event. We find excellent agreement with the SXS and RIT results in the remnant mass, spin, and recoil velocity. For the dominant mode of the gravitational-wave signal we find maximum dephasing of and amplitude difference of . We use our newly computed waveform to re-analyze the GW150914 data and find posteriors for chirp mass, luminosity distance, and inclination that are broadely consistent with those obtained using semi-analytic waveform models. This work demonstrates the viability of AthenaK for many-orbits binary black hole merger simulations. A step-by-step tutorial, including all necessary input files and analysis scripts to reproduce our results, is available on GitHub.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"195 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145032194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Self-force and the Schwarzschild star","authors":"Abhinove N Seenivasan and Sam R Dolan","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/adfe4f","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/adfe4f","url":null,"abstract":"We consider the self-force acting on a pointlike (electromagnetic or conformal-scalar) charge held fixed on a spacetime with a spherically-symmetric mass distribution of constant density (the Schwarzschild star). The Schwarzschild interior is shown to be conformal to a three-sphere geometry; we use this conformal symmetry to obtain closed-form expressions for mode solutions. We calculate the self-force with two complementary regularisation methods, direct and difference regularisation, showing agreement. For the first time, we show that difference regularisation can be applied in the non-vacuum interior region, due to the vanishing of certain regularised mode sums. The new results for the self-force come in three forms: series expansions for the self-force near the centre of the star and in the far field; a new approximation that describes the divergence in the self-force near the star’s boundary; and numerical data presented in a selection of plots. We conclude with a discussion of the logarithmic divergence in the self-force in the approach to the star’s surface, and the effect of boundaries.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145017632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J J Carter, P Birckigt, J Lehmann, A Basalaev, S L Kranzhoff, S Al-Kershi, M Carlassara, G Chiarini, F Khan, G Leibeling, H Lück, C Rothhardt, S Risse, P Sarkar, S Takano, J von Wrangel, D S Wu and S M Koehlenbeck
{"title":"Testing compact, fused silica resonator based inertial sensors in a gravitational wave detector prototype facility","authors":"J J Carter, P Birckigt, J Lehmann, A Basalaev, S L Kranzhoff, S Al-Kershi, M Carlassara, G Chiarini, F Khan, G Leibeling, H Lück, C Rothhardt, S Risse, P Sarkar, S Takano, J von Wrangel, D S Wu and S M Koehlenbeck","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/adff34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/adff34","url":null,"abstract":"Future gravitational wave observatories require significant advances in all aspects of their seismic isolation; inertial sensors being a pressing example. Inertial sensors using gram-scale high mechanical Q factor (Q) glass resonators combined with compact interferometric readout are promising alternatives to kilogram-scale conventional inertial sensors. We have produced fused silica resonators suitable for low frequency inertial sensing and demonstrated that Qs of over 150 000 are possible. One resonator we produced was combined with a homodyne quadrature interferometer (HoQI) to read out the test mass displacement to form an inertial sensor. This is the first time a HoQI was used with a high Q resonator. The resulting sensor was tested against other commercial, kilogram scale inertial sensors at the AEI 10 m Prototype facility. Despite the dynamic range challenges induced by the test mass motion, we can match the excellent noise floors HoQIs have achieved so far with slow-moving or stationary test masses, showing HoQIs as an excellent candidate for the readout of such sensors. We evaluate the setup as an inertial sensor, showing the best performance demonstrated by any gram-scale sensor to date, with comparable sensitivity to the significantly bulkier sensors used in gravitational wave detectors today. These sensors’ compact size, self-calibration, and vacuum compatibility make them ideal candidates for the inertial sensing requirements in future gravitational wave detectors.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145017633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}