Emission of Gravitational Waves from a Magnetohydrodynamic Dynamo

TL;DR

This paper explores the hypothesis that gravitational waves emitted by the sun's magnetohydrodynamic dynamo contribute to background noise affecting gravitational wave detectors, proposing lunar eclipse observations as a detection method.

Contribution

It introduces a novel hypothesis linking solar dynamo-generated gravitational waves to detector noise and suggests an observational approach using lunar eclipses.

Findings

Hypothesizes solar dynamo as a gravitational wave source.

Proposes lunar eclipse as a detection method.

Links gravitational wave background to detector failures.

Abstract

The failure of the laser-interferometer gravitational wave antennas to measure the tiny changes of lengths many orders of magnitude smaller than the diameter of a proton raises the question of whether the reason for this failure is a large gravitational wave background noise, and if so, where this background noise is coming from. It is conjectured that it comes from gravitational waves emitted from a magnetohydrodynamic dynamo in the center of the sun, with the large magnetic field from this dynamo shielded by thermomagnetic currents in the tachocline. Using the moon as a large Weber bar, these gravitational waves could possibly be detected by the Poisson diffraction into the center of the lunar shadow during a total solar eclipse.