Testing theories of gravity with a spherical gravitational wave detector
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- 1 November 1996
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Classical and Quantum Gravity
- Vol. 13 (11) , 2865-2873
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/13/11/003
Abstract
We consider the possibility of discriminating different theories of gravity using a recently proposed gravitational wave detector of spherical shape. We argue that the spin content of different theories can be extracted relating the measurements of the excited spheroidal vibrational eigenmodes to the Newman - Penrose parameters. The sphere toroidal modes cannot be excited by any metric GW and can thus be used as a veto.Keywords
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