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Direct current memory effects in effective-one-body waveform models

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2024-10-10 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The direct current (DC) memory is a non-oscillatory, hereditary component of the gravitational wave (GW) signal that represents one of the most peculiar manifestations of the nonlinear nature of GW emission and propagation. In this work, by transforming the results provided in Ebersold et al. [Phys.Rev.D 100 (2019) 8, 084043] in harmonic coordinates and quasi-Keplerian parametrization, we provide the DC memory in terms of the effective-one-body (EOB) phase-space variables, with a relative accuracy of 2.5PN and in an expansion for small eccentricity up to order six. Our results are then implemented in TEOBResumS-Dal\'i, thus providing the first EOB model with DC memory contributions. This model is then used to assess the impact on the waveform and the main features of the DC memory, also addressing its dependence on the eccentricity of the binary system at its formation.

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@article{arxiv.2410.05386,
  title  = {Direct current memory effects in effective-one-body waveform models},
  author = {Elisa Grilli and Andrea Placidi and Simone Albanesi and Gianluca Grignani and Marta Orselli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.05386},
  year   = {2024}
}

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16 pages, 5 figures

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