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most citedTowards a Consistent Calculation of the Lunar Response to Gravitational Waves

13 citations · 21 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

physics.geo-ph2026

Modeling resonance characteristics of the Chang'e-7 lander modulated by solar panel rotation under lunar south-pole thermal environment

Lei Zhang, Jinhai Zhang

The Chang'e-7 (CE-7) mission will deploy the first seismometer at the lunar south pole to detect moonquakes and probe lunar interior structures in 2026 winter. However, the lander'…

gr-qc2026

Thick Lunar Crust Amplifies Deci-Hertz Gravitational-Wave Signal

Lei Zhang, Han Yan, Xian Chen +1

Gravitational waves (GWs) in the Hz band encode unique signatures of the early universe and merging compact objects, but they are beyond the reach of existing observato…

astro-ph.EP2025

Numerical simulation of lunar response to gravitational waves and its 3D topographic effect using the spectral-element method

Lei Zhang, Han Yan, Jinhai Zhang +1

The Moon has been regarded as a natural Weber bar capable of amplifying gravitational waves (GWs) for detecting events across a wide range of frequencies. However, accurately deter…

astro-ph.EP2025

Super amplification of lunar response to gravitational waves driven by thick crust

Lei Zhang, Jinhai Zhang, Han Yan +1

The Moon has been long regarded as a natural resonator of gravitational waves (GWs) since 1960, showing great potential to fill the frequency gap left behind GW detections by groun…

astro-ph.EP2024

2D numerical simulation of lunar response to gravitational waves using finite element method

Lei Zhang, Han Yan, Xian Chen +1

Previous studies of the response of the Moon to gravitational waves have been carried out using analytical or semi-analytical models assuming ideal lunar structures. Such models ar…

gr-qc2024★ 8 cited

Constraining the stochastic gravitational wave background using the future lunar seismometers

Han Yan, Xian Chen, Jinhai Zhang +3

Motivated by the old idea of using the moon as a resonant gravitational-wave (GW) detector, as well as the recent updates in modeling the lunar response to GWs, we re-evaluate the…

gr-qc2024★ 13 cited

Towards a Consistent Calculation of the Lunar Response to Gravitational Waves

Han Yan, Xian Chen, Jinhai Zhang +3

The recent increasing interest in detecting gravitational waves (GWs) by lunar seismic measurement urges us to have a clear understanding of the response of the moon to passing GWs…