Lunar response to gravitational waves
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| author | Kachelriess, M. Nødtvedt, M. P. |
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| contents | It has been suggested to use seismic detectors on the Moon as a tool to search for gravitational waves in an intermediate frequency range between mHz and Hz. Employing three different spherically symmetric models for the lunar interior, we investigate the response of the Moon to gravitational waves in Einstein and Jordan-Brans-Dicke gravity. We find that the first eigenfrequencies of the different models depend only weakly on the model details, with the fundamental frequency $ν_1$ close to 1\,ms both for spheroidal and toroidal oscillations. In contrast, the resulting displacement varies up to a factor two, being in the range $(2.7-5.6)\times 10^{11}/h_0$ cm for spheroidal oscillations with amplitude $h_0$. Toroidal oscillations are suppressed by a factor $2πνR/c$, both in Einstein gravity and in general scalar-tensor theories. |
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| spellingShingle | Lunar response to gravitational waves Kachelriess, M. Nødtvedt, M. P. General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Earth and Planetary Astrophysics It has been suggested to use seismic detectors on the Moon as a tool to search for gravitational waves in an intermediate frequency range between mHz and Hz. Employing three different spherically symmetric models for the lunar interior, we investigate the response of the Moon to gravitational waves in Einstein and Jordan-Brans-Dicke gravity. We find that the first eigenfrequencies of the different models depend only weakly on the model details, with the fundamental frequency $ν_1$ close to 1\,ms both for spheroidal and toroidal oscillations. In contrast, the resulting displacement varies up to a factor two, being in the range $(2.7-5.6)\times 10^{11}/h_0$ cm for spheroidal oscillations with amplitude $h_0$. Toroidal oscillations are suppressed by a factor $2πνR/c$, both in Einstein gravity and in general scalar-tensor theories. |
| title | Lunar response to gravitational waves |
| topic | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Earth and Planetary Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11665 |