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| author | Foster, Joshua W. Blas, Diego Bourgoin, Adrien Hees, Aurelien Herrero-Valea, Míriam Jenkins, Alexander C. Xue, Xiao |
| author_facet | Foster, Joshua W. Blas, Diego Bourgoin, Adrien Hees, Aurelien Herrero-Valea, Míriam Jenkins, Alexander C. Xue, Xiao |
| contents | Precision observations of orbital systems have recently emerged as a promising new means of detecting gravitational waves and ultra-light dark matter, offering sensitivity in new regimes with significant discovery potential. These searches rely critically on precise modeling of the dynamical effects of these signals on the observed system; however, previous analyses have mainly only relied on the secularly-averaged part of the response. We introduce here a fundamentally different approach that allows for a fully time-resolved description of the effects of oscillatory metric perturbations on orbital dynamics. We find that gravitational waves and ultra-light dark matter can induce large oscillations in the orbital parameters of realistic binaries, enhancing the sensitivity to such signals by orders of magnitude compared to previous estimates. |
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| spellingShingle | Prospects for gravitational wave and ultra-light dark matter detection with binary resonances beyond the secular approximation Foster, Joshua W. Blas, Diego Bourgoin, Adrien Hees, Aurelien Herrero-Valea, Míriam Jenkins, Alexander C. Xue, Xiao General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Precision observations of orbital systems have recently emerged as a promising new means of detecting gravitational waves and ultra-light dark matter, offering sensitivity in new regimes with significant discovery potential. These searches rely critically on precise modeling of the dynamical effects of these signals on the observed system; however, previous analyses have mainly only relied on the secularly-averaged part of the response. We introduce here a fundamentally different approach that allows for a fully time-resolved description of the effects of oscillatory metric perturbations on orbital dynamics. We find that gravitational waves and ultra-light dark matter can induce large oscillations in the orbital parameters of realistic binaries, enhancing the sensitivity to such signals by orders of magnitude compared to previous estimates. |
| title | Prospects for gravitational wave and ultra-light dark matter detection with binary resonances beyond the secular approximation |
| topic | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16988 |