Gaia repurposed as a gravitational wave detector
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Gaia repurposed as a gravitational wave detector
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Re: Gaia repurposed as a gravitational wave detector
might be just me, but that article seems to be reaching a little...
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Re: Gaia repurposed as a gravitational wave detector
It's probably not just you, but I don't think that the article is "reaching" at all. The paper seems thorough and well argued.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.04039
Low frequency gravitational waves (GWs) are keys to understanding cosmological inflation and super massive blackhole (SMBH) formation via blackhole mergers, while it is difficult to identify the low frequency GWs with ground-based GW experiments such as the advanced LIGO (aLIGO) and VIRGO due to the seismic noise. Although quasi-stellar object (QSO) proper motions produced by the low frequency GWs are measured by pioneering studies of very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations with good positional accuracy, the low frequency GWs are not strongly constrained by the small statistics with 711 QSOs (Darling et al. 2018). Here we present the proper motion field map of 400,894 QSOs of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) with optical {\it Gaia} EDR3 proper motion measurements whose positional accuracy is <0.4 milli-arcsec comparable with the one of the radio VLBI observations. We obtain the best-fit spherical harmonics with the typical field strength of (0.1)μarcsec, and place a tight constraint on the energy density of GWs, Ωgw=(0.964±3.804)×10−4 (95 \% confidence level), that is significantly stronger than the one of the previous VLBI study by two orders of magnitude at the low frequency regime of f<10−9[Hz]≃(30yr)−1 unexplored by the pulsar timing technique. Our upper limit rules out the existence of SMBH binary systems at the distance r<400 kpc from the Earth where the Milky Way center and local group galaxies are included. Demonstrating the limit given by our optical QSO study, we claim that astrometric satellite data including the forthcoming {\it Gaia} DR5 data with small systematic errors are powerful to constrain low frequency GWs.
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Re: Gaia repurposed as a gravitational wave detector
What's the idea here? Is it a huge amount of data from huge number of targets?
And if Gaia doesn't find wobble, it's confirmed that the wobbling is below Gaia's limit of detection giving an upper limit for the wobbling (and thus for the gravitational waves)?
And if Gaia doesn't find wobble, it's confirmed that the wobbling is below Gaia's limit of detection giving an upper limit for the wobbling (and thus for the gravitational waves)?
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Re: Gaia repurposed as a gravitational wave detector
Exactly so. And the upper limit is more severe than radio astronomy can currently provide. It’ll be most interesting to see what happens when the upper limit gets improved to a measurement level. That just requires more time.turboscrew wrote: ↑Sat May 15, 2021 8:15 pm What's the idea here? Is it a huge amount of data from huge number of targets?
And if Gaia doesn't find wobble, it's confirmed that the wobbling is below Gaia's limit of detection giving an upper limit for the wobbling (and thus for the gravitational waves)?
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