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In this work, the strong lensing effect of the memory signal was considered. In the geometric optics limit, the lensed memory signal becomes oscillatory, while the unlensed is basically monotonic. This is because only the high frequency…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-13 Ruanjing Zhang , Zhi-Chao Zhao , Shaoqi Hou , Xi-Long Fan , Kai Liao , Zong-Hong Zhu

In this paper we introduce a new approach to the study of the effects that an impulsive wave, containing a mixture of material sources and gravitational waves, has on a geodesic congruence that traverses it. We find that the effect of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-30 Martin O'Loughlin , Hovhannes Demirchian

Gravitational waves are messengers carrying valuable information about their sources. For sources at cosmological distances, the waves will contain also the imprint left by the intervening matter. The situation is in close analogy with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-13 Pablo Laguna , Shane L. Larson , David Spergel , Nicolas Yunes

We argue that massless gravitons in all even dimensional de Sitter (dS) spacetimes higher than two admit a linear memory effect arising from their propagation inside the null cone. Assume that gravitational waves (GWs) are being generated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-18 Yi-Zen Chu

Gravitational wave memory and its electromagnetic analog are shown to be straightforward consequences of the wave equation. From Maxwell's equations one can derive a wave equation for the electric field, while from the Bianchi identity one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-22 David Garfinkle

We show that the stochastic background of gravitational wave memory of growing type leads to a fractional Brownian motion increasing at the order of $t^{H}$ for large $t$ where $\frac{1}{2} < H <1$. This beats the scaling law of Brownian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-04 Lydia Bieri

The linear- and quadratic-in-spin contributions to the binding potential and gravitational-wave flux from binary systems are derived to next-to-next-to-leading order in the Post-Newtonian (PN) expansion of general relativity, including…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-23 Gihyuk Cho , Rafael A. Porto , Zixin Yang

The gravitational wave (GW) memory from a radiating and decelerating point mass is studied in detail. It is found that for isotropic photon emission the memory generated from the photons is essentially the same with the memory from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Shota Akiba , Megumi Nakada , Chiyo Yamaguchi , Koichi Iwamoto

Gravitational wave memory is studied in the context of a certain class of braneworld wormholes. Unlike other wormhole geometries, this novel class of wormholes do not require any exotic matter fields for its traversability. First, we study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-02 Indranil Chakraborty , Soumya Bhattacharya , Sumanta Chakraborty

Particles initially at rest hit by a passing sandwich gravitational wave exhibit, in general, thevelocity memory effect (VM): they fly apart with constant velocity. For specific values of the wave parameters their motion can however become…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-14 P. -M. Zhang , P. A. Horvathy

In this paper, we study the gravitational memory effect in pp-wave spacetimes due to the passage of a pulse having the form of a ramp profile through this spacetime. We have analyzed the effect of this pulse on the evolution of nearby…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-17 Sucheta Datta , Sarbari Guha

Recently Mendonca and Cardoso [Phys. Rev. D, vol. 66, 104009 (2002)] considered nonlinear gravitational wave packets propagating in flat space-time. They concluded that the evolution equation - to third order in amplitude - takes a similar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Servin , M. Marklund , G. Brodin , J. T. Mendonca , V. Cardoso

We study the properties of the outgoing gravitational wave produced when a non-spinning black hole is excited by an ingoing gravitational wave. Simulations using a numerical code for solving Einstein's equations allow the study to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Yosef Zlochower , Roberto Gomez , Sascha Husa , Luis Lehner , Jeffrey Winicour

The "gravitational memory effect" due to an exact plane wave provides us with an elementary description of the diffeomorphisms associated with soft gravitons. It is explained how the presence of the latter may be detected by observing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-02 P. -M. Zhang , C. Duval , G. W. Gibbons , P. A. Horvathy

Gravitational wave (GW) memory, a permanent distortion of the space-time metric, is anticipated during the acceleration of relativistic jets in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). While the precise mechanism behind GRBs is not yet fully understood,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-23 Yusuke Sakai , Ryo Yamazaki , Yoshihiro Okutani , Satsuki Ueno , Norichika Sago , Marco Meyer-Conde , Hirotaka Takahashi

Current searches for signals of departures from the fundamental symmetries of General Relativity using gravitational waves are largely dominated by propagation effects like dispersion and birefringence from highly dynamic sources such as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-08 Nils A. Nilsson , Christophe Le-Poncin Lafitte

Based on the relationship between proper distance and coordinate distance, the geometrical phenomenon caused by the passing gravitational waves can not be observed locally. The electromagnetic wave equations in the background gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-13 Wenyu Wang , Yang Xu

First order phase transitions in the early universe can give rise to a stochastic background of gravitational waves. A hypothetical first order electroweak phase transition is particularly interesting in this respect, since the signal is in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Chiara Caprini

In the weak field approximation the gravitational wave is approximated as a linear wave, which ignores the nonlinear effect. In this paper, we present an exact general solution of the cylindrical gravitational wave. The exact solution of…

General Physics · Physics 2020-06-12 Yu-Zhu Chen , Yu-Jie Chen , Shi-Lin Li , Wu-Sheng Dai

We construct, for the first time, the time-domain gravitational wave strain waveform from the collapse of a strongly gravitating Abelian Higgs cosmic string loop in full general relativity. We show that the strain exhibits a large memory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-28 Josu C. Aurrekoetxea , Thomas Helfer , Eugene A. Lim
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