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Gravitational-wave tails of memory at 4PN order

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2024-02-16 v2

Abstract

We study a novel cubic nonlinear effect, the tails-of-memory, which consist of a combination of the tail effect (backscattering of linear gravitational waves against the curvature of spacetime generated by the source) and the memory effect (due to reradiation of gravitational waves by linear gravitational waves themselves). Our final result is consistent with a straightforward direct computation of the memory effect, but also involves many non-trivial tail-like terms.

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@article{arxiv.2306.00546,
  title  = {Gravitational-wave tails of memory at 4PN order},
  author = {David Trestini and Luc Blanchet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.00546},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

Contribution to the 2023 Gravitation session of the 57th Rencontres de Moriond. 5 pages, 1 figure. v2: corrected a typo in Eq. (11)