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Third generation ground-based interferometers as well as the planned space-based interferometer LISA are expected to detect a plethora of gravitational wave signals from coalescing binaries at cosmological distance. The emitted…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-01 Camille Bonvin , Chiara Caprini , Riccardo Sturani , Nicola Tamanini

We study the stochastic background of gravitational waves which accompany the sudden freeze-out of dark matter triggered by a cosmological first order phase transition that endows dark matter with mass. We consider models that produce the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Danny Marfatia , Po-Yan Tseng

Nonaxisymmetric, meridional circulation inside a neutron star, excited by a glitch and persisting throughout the post-glitch relaxation phase, emits gravitational radiation. Here, it is shown that the current quadrupole contributes more…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. F. Bennett , C. A. van Eysden , A. Melatos

The memory effect is a prediction of general relativity on the same footing as the existence of gravitational waves. The memory effect is understood at future null infinity as a transition induced by null radiation from a Poincar\'e vacuum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-15 Geoffrey Compère

We study the observable implications of an incomplete first order phase transition during inflation. In such a phase transition, the nucleated bubbles do not percolate and instead are continuously produced until the onset of reheating. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-20 Joel Barir , Michael Geller , Chen Sun , Tomer Volansky

Gravitational wave (GW) memory is an important prediction of general relativity. Existing works on the GW memory detection focus on the waveform analysis. It is hard for waveform analysis method to detect the GW memory due to its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-30 Zhi-Chao Zhao , Xiaolin Liu , Zhoujian Cao , Xiaokai He

Bayesian inference is used to extract unknown parameters from gravitational wave signals. Detector noise is typically modelled as stationary, although data from the LIGO and Virgo detectors is not stationary. We demonstrate that the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-13 O Edy , A. Lundgren , L. K. Nuttall

Nonlinear wave interaction of low amplitude gravitational waves in flat space-time is considered. Analogy with optics is established. It is shown that the flat metric space-time is equivalent to a centro-symmetric optical medium, with no…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 J. T. Mendonca , Vitor Cardoso

The Cosmological Gravitational Wave Background (CGWB) anisotropies contain valuable information about the physics of the early universe. Given that General Relativity is intrinsically nonlinear, it is important to look beyond first-order…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-29 Alina Mierna , Sabino Matarrese , Nicola Bartolo , Angelo Ricciardone

In general relativity, gravitational memory describes the lasting change in the separation and relative velocity of freely falling detectors after the passage of gravitational waves (GWs). In this paper, we elucidate the relation between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-17 Valerio De Luca , Justin Khoury , Sam S. C. Wong

The article deals with photon propagation in pp-wave spacetimes in the strong gravitational-wave regime and its consequences for redshift measurements. We show that null geodesics crossing a localized pp-wave pulse exhibit an energy memory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-15 F. L. Carneiro , S. C. Ulhoa , J. W. Maluf

We extend recent theoretical results on the propagation of linear gravitational waves (GWs), including their associated memories, in spatially flat Friedmann--Lema\^{i}tre--Robertson--Walker (FLRW) universes, for all spacetime dimensions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-27 Yi-Zen Chu

The nonlinear aspect of gravitational wave generation that produces power at harmonics of the orbital frequency, above the fundamental quadrupole frequency, is examined to see what information about the source is contained in these higher…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Ronald W. Hellings , Thomas A. Moore

A particle of mass $\mu$ moves on a circular orbit around a nonrotating black hole of mass $M$. Under the assumption $\mu \ll M$ the gravitational waves emitted by such a binary system can be calculated exactly numerically using black-hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Eric Poisson

In the plane wave spacetime, when gravitational waves pass by, an angular deviation exists between two free-falling gyroscopes, which naturally corresponds to the velocity memory effect. In the shackwave spacetime background, the angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-28 Yingxin Chen , Ke Wang , Chao-Jun Feng

Observations by laser interferometric detectors of gravitational waves from inspiraling compact binary systems can be used to search for a dependence of the waves' propagation speed on wavelength, and thereby to bound the mass or Compton…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-22 K G Arun , Clifford M Will

Gravitational waves from precessing binary black holes exhibit new features that are absent in non-precessionary systems. All current waveform models take into account only the modulation of the signal due to precession. In this letter, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-22 Cheng Zhang , Wen-Biao Han , Shu-Cheng Yang

The existence of dark matter is supported by multiple astrophysical observations, yet its particle nature remains unknown. The development of gravitational wave astronomy, especially with future space-based detectors such as LISA, provides…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-10 Yuezhe Chen , Pan-Pan Wang , Bo Wang , Rui Luo , Cheng-Gang Shao

Gravitational waves sourced by amplified scalar perturbations are a common prediction across a wide range of cosmological models. These scalar curvature fluctuations are inherently nonlinear and typically non-Gaussian. We argue that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-10 A. J. Iovino , S. Matarrese , G. Perna , A. Ricciardone , A. Riotto