Localized astronomical sources like a double stellar system, rotating neutron star, or a massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way emit periodic gravitational waves. For a long time only a far-zone contribution of gravitational fields of the localized sources (plane-wave-front approximation) were a matter of theoretical analysis. We demonstrate how this analysis can be extended to take into account near-zone and intermediate-zone contributions as well. The formalism is used to calculate gravitational-wave corrections to the Shapiro time delay in binary pulsars and low-frequency (LF) pulsar timing noise produced by an ensemble of double stars in our galaxy.c We note that variables r0 and θ0 are not independent and can be expressed through r and θ d Function F (ν) is nomalized to unity, and n(r) = n(θ, r) is normalized to the total number of double stars in the ensemble.
We report observational upper limits on the mass-energy of the cosmological gravitational-wave background, from limits on proper motions of quasars.Gravitational waves with periods longer than the time span of observations produce a simple pattern of apparent proper motions over the sky, composed primarily of second-order transverse vector spherical harmonics. A fit of such harmonics to measured motions yields a 95%-confidence limit on the mass-energy of gravitational waves with frequencies ν < 2 × 10 −9 Hz, of < 0.11h −2 times the closure density of the universe.
Gravitational waves affect the observed direction of light from distant
sources. At telescopes, this change in direction appears as periodic variations
in the apparent positions of these sources on the sky; that is, as proper
motion. A wave of a given phase, traveling in a given direction, produces a
characteristic pattern of proper motions over the sky. Comparison of observed
proper motions with this pattern serves to test for the presence of
gravitational waves. A stochastic background of waves induces apparent proper
motions with specific statistical properties, and so, may also be sought. In
this paper we consider the effects of a cosmological background of
gravitational radiation on astrometric observations. We derive an equation for
the time delay measured by two antennae observing the same source in an
Einstein-de Sitter spacetime containing gravitational radiation. We also show
how to obtain similar expressions for curved Friedmann-Robertson-Walker
spacetimes.Comment: 31 pages plus 3 separate figures, plain TeX, submitted to Ap
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