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Within scalar-tensor (ST) theories, neutron stars in binary systems experience tidal deformations caused by both their companion and the scalar field. These deformations are strongly correlated to the star's internal structure and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-20 Eve Dones , Laura Bernard

The well-developed separate universe technique enables accurate calibration of the response of any observable to an isotropic long-wavelength density fluctuation. The large-scale environment also hosts tidal modes that perturb all…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-11 Kazuyuki Akitsu , Yin Li , Teppei Okumura

Since the gravitational waves were detected by LIGO and Virgo, it has been promising that lots of information about the primordial Universe could be learned by further observations on stochastic gravitational waves background. The studies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 Jing-Zhi Zhou , Xukun Zhang , Qing-Hua Zhu , Zhe Chang

We investigate the influence of cosmic magnetic fields on gravitational wave perturbations, and find exact solutions on large scales. We show that a large-scale magnetic field can generate large-scale non-decaying gravitational waves. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Roy Maartens , Christos Tsagas , Carlo Ungarelli

We compute tidal signatures in the gravitational waves (GWs) from neutron star binary inspirals in scalar-tensor gravity, where the dominant adiabatic even-parity tidal interactions involve three types of Love numbers that depend on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-04 Gastón Creci , Iris van Gemeren , Tanja Hinderer , Jan Steinhoff

Although the large-scale perturbations beyond a finite-volume survey region are not direct observables, these affect measurements of clustering statistics of small-scale (sub-survey) perturbations in the large-scale structure, compared with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Kazuyuki Akitsu , Masahiro Takada

In this article, we study the tidal effects in the gravitationally bound two-body system at next-to-next-to leading post-Newtonian order for spin-less sources in massless scalar-tensor theories. We compute the conservative dynamics, using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-20 Laura Bernard , Eve Dones , Stavros Mougiakakos

We extend a previous work by Reischke et al., 2016 by studying the effects of tidal shear on clustering dark energy models within the framework of the extended spherical collapse model and using the Zel'dovich approximation. As in previous…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Francesco Pace , Robert Reischke , Sven Meyer , Björn Malte Schäfer

We investigate the dominant physical effects of superhorizon fluctuations in a flat FLRW universe, focusing on whether the combined evolution of scalar and tensor adiabatic modes in the near-horizon regime could lead to geometries beyond…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-02 Jorge Noreña , Thiago S. Pereira , Sean K. Reynolds

Atomic wave interferometers are tied to a telescope pointing towards a faraway star in a nearly free falling satellite. Such a device is sensitive to the acceleration and the rotation relatively to the local inertial frame and to the tidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Philippe Tourrenc , Marie-Christine Angonin-Willaime , Xavier Ovido

We derive the complete spectrum of gravitational waves induced by primordial scalar perturbations ranging over all observable wavelengths. This scalar-induced contribution can be computed directly from the observed scalar perturbations and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel Baumann , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Paul J. Steinhardt , Keitaro Takahashi

Primordial gravitational waves are a crucial prediction of inflation theory, and their detection through their imprints on the cosmic microwave background is actively being pursued. However, these attempts have not yet been successful. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-06 Yan-Heng Yu , Sai Wang

Cosmic shear surveys have great promise as tools for precision cosmology, but can be subject to systematic errors including intrinsic ellipticity correlations of the source galaxies. The intrinsic alignments are believed to be small for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-28 Christopher M. Hirata , Uros Seljak

In this paper, we establish a model-independent framework based on the Isaacson picture to analyze the gravitational-wave effects in the most general vector-tensor theory that yields second-order field equations. Within this framework, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-12 Yu-Qi Dong , Xiao-Bin Lai , Yu-Qiang Liu , Yu-Xiao Liu

A Lagrangian relativistic approach to the non--linear dynamics of cosmological perturbations of an irrotational collisionless fluid is considered. Solutions are given at second order in perturbation theory for the relevant fluid and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. Matarrese , O. Pantano , D. Saez

Density perturbations in cosmology, i.e. spherically symmetric adiabatic perturbations of a Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) spacetime, are locally exactly equivalent to a different FLRW solution, as long as their wavelength is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-21 Hiu Yan Ip , Fabian Schmidt

Tidal forces produced by black holes are an important result of General Relativity, related to the spacetime curvature tensor. Among the astrophysical implications of tidal forces, stands out tidal disruption events. We analyze the tidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-28 Haroldo C. D. Lima Junior , Luís C. B. Crispino

We investigate the generation of gravitational waves due to the gravitational instability of primordial density perturbations in an early matter-dominated era which could be detectable by experiments such as LIGO and LISA. We use…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 Hooshyar Assadullahi , David Wands

Weak gravitational lensing is normally assumed to have only two principle effects: a magnification of a source and a distortion of the sources shape in the form of a shear. However, further distortions are actually present owing to changes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-02 Chris Clarkson

Gravitational waves emitted by coalescing binary systems containing neutron stars (or other compact objects) carry signatures of the stars' internal equation of state, notably, through the influence of tidal deformations during the binary's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-11 Batoul Banihashemi , Justin Vines