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Analyzing test particles falling into a Kerr black hole, we study gravitational waves in Brans-Dicke theory of gravity. First we consider a test particle plunging with a constant azimuthal angle into a rotating black hole and calculate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Motoyuki Saijo , Hisa-aki Shinkai , Kei-ichi Maeda

We study gravitational absorption effects using effective on-shell scattering amplitudes. We develop an in-in probability-based framework involving plane- and partial-wave coherent states for the incoming wave to describe the interaction of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-14 Rafael Aoude , Alexander Ochirov

We establish a generic, fully-relativistic formalism to study gravitational-wave emission by extreme-mass-ratio systems in spherically-symmetric, non-vacuum black-hole spacetimes. The potential applications to astrophysical setups range…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-21 Vitor Cardoso , Kyriakos Destounis , Francisco Duque , Rodrigo Panosso Macedo , Andrea Maselli

To obtain the waveform template of gravitational waves (GWs), substantial computational resources and exceedingly high precision are often required. In the previous study [JCAP 11 (2023) 070], we efficiently and accurately calculate GW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-25 Changkai Chen , Jiliang Jing

We compute the gravitational-wave signal generated by the radial infall of a stellar-mass black hole into a thin-shell Schwarzschild traversable wormhole. Modeling the black hole as a test particle, we derive analytic expressions for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-05 Mohammad Nosherwan Malik , James B. Dent , William E. Gabella , Thomas W. Kephart

The gravitational-wave spectrum emitted by a non-axisymmetric torus rotating at an angular velocity $\Omega_T$, is derived in terms of a structure function representing a combination of sausage-tilt modes in the torus in the limit of an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Omer Bromberg , Amir Levinson , Maurice van Putten

We study gravitational waves in the black string Randall-Sundrum braneworld. We present a reasonably self-contained and complete derivation of the equations governing the evolution of gravitational perturbations in the presence of a brane…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-19 Sanjeev S. Seahra , Chris Clarkson

The quasi-bound states of charged massive scalar fields in the near-extremal charged Reissner-Nordstr\"om black-hole spacetime are studied {\it analytically}. These discrete resonant modes of the composed black-hole-field system are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-08 Shahar Hod

We show that gravitational-wave astronomy has the potential to inform us on quantum aspects of black holes. Based on Bekenstein's quantization, we find that black hole area discretization could impart observable imprints to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-09 Ivan Agullo , Vitor Cardoso , Adrian del Rio , Michele Maggiore , Jorge Pullin

We present a new computation of the asymptotic gravitational wave energy fluxes emitted by a {\it spinning} particle in circular equatorial orbits about a Kerr black hole. The particle dynamics is computed in the pole-dipole approximation,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-08 Enno Harms , Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Alessandro Nagar

We determine the binding energy, the total gravitational wave energy flux, and the gravitational wave modes for a binary of rapidly spinning black holes, working in linearized gravity and at leading orders in the orbital velocity, but to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-22 Nils Siemonsen , Jan Steinhoff , Justin Vines

We present a fully nonlinear calculation of the waveform of the gravitational radiation emitted in the fission of a vacuum white hole. At early times, the waveforms agree with close-approximation perturbative calculations but they reveal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Roberto Gomez , Sascha Husa , Luis Lehner , Jeffrey Winicour

A quasi-spherical approximation scheme, intended to apply to coalescing black holes, allows the waveforms of gravitational radiation to be computed by integrating ordinary differential equations.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 Sean A. Hayward

We investigate the scattering of electromagnetic and gravitational waves off a Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole in the low-temperature regime where the near-horizon throat experiences large quantum fluctuations. We find that the black hole…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-07 Roberto Emparan , Stefano Trezzi

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

We construct the solutions of slowly rotating gravastars with a thin shell. In the zero-rotation limit, we consider the gravastar composed of a de Sitter core, a thin shell, and Schwarzschild exterior spacetime. The rotational effects are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-13 Nami Uchikata , Shijun Yoshida

In the three-dimensional pure Einstein gravity, the geometries of the vacuum space-times are always trivial, and gravitational waves (gravitons) are strictly forbidden. For the first time, we find a vacuum circularly symmetric black hole…

General Physics · Physics 2014-12-22 Hongsheng Zhang , Dao-Jun Liu , Xin-Zhou Li

We analyze the largely accepted formulas for the asymptotic quasi-normal frequencies of the non-extremal Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole, (for the electromagnetic-gravitational/scalar perturbations). We focus on the question of whether the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-02-01 Jozef Skakala

We study the end stages of gravitational collapse of the thin shell of matter in ingoing Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates. We use the functional Schrodinger formalism to capture quantum effects in the near singularity limit. We find that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-18 Anshul Saini , Dejan Stojkovic

We investigate the problem of scattering and conversion of monochromatic planar gravitational and electromagnetic waves impinging upon a Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole using a Regge pole description, i.e., a complex angular momentum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-26 Mohamed Ould El Hadj