A precise response function for the magnetic component of Gravitational Waves in Scalar-Tensor Gravity

Abstract

The important issue of the magnetic component of gravitational waves (GWs) has been considered in various papers in the literature. From such analyses, it resulted that such a magnetic component becomes particularly important in the high frequency portion of the frequency range of ground based interferometers for GWs which arises from standard General Theory of Relativity (GTR). Recently, such a magnetic component has been extended to GWs arising from Scalar-Tensor Gravity (STG) too. After a review of some important issues on GWs in STG, in this paper we re-analyse the magnetic component in the framework of STG from a different point of view, by correcting an error in a previous paper and by releasing a more precise response function. In this way, we also show that if one neglects the magnetic contribution considering only the low-frequency approximation of the electric contribution, an important part of the signal could be, in principle, lost. The determination of a more precise response function for the magnetic contribution is important also in the framework of the possibility to distinguish other gravitational theories from GTR. At the end of the paper an expansion of the main results is also shown in order to recall the presence of the magnetic component in GRT too.

Accepted for publication in Physical Review D, to be published during 2011. 36 pages, in this second version typos have been corrected and references have been updated

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