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In Newtonian gravitational theory, a tidal Love number relates the mass multipole moment created by tidal forces on a spherical body to the applied tidal field. The Love number is dimensionless, and it encodes information about the body's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-29 Taylor Binnington , Eric Poisson

The Love numbers of a gravitating body are response coefficients encoding its tidal deformability. In compact binary systems, they appear in the gravitational waveform during the inspiral phase and will be measurable by upcoming…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-13 María J. Rodríguez , Luca Santoni , Adam R. Solomon

In this brief note, we clarify certain aspects related to the magnetic (i.e., odd parity or axial) tidal Love numbers of a star in general relativity. Magnetic tidal deformations of a compact star had been computed in 2009 independently by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-20 Paolo Pani , Leonardo Gualtieri , Tiziano Abdelsalhin , Xisco Jiménez Forteza

The deformation of a nonrotating body resulting from the application of a tidal field is measured by two sets of Love numbers associated with the gravitoelectric and gravitomagnetic pieces of the tidal field, respectively. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Philippe Landry , Eric Poisson

Tidal Love numbers describe the linear response of a compact object under the presence of external tidal perturbations, and they are found to vanish exactly for black holes within General Relativity. In this paper we investigate the tidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-02 Valerio De Luca , Justin Khoury , Sam S. C. Wong

A set of tidal Love numbers quantifies tidal deformation of compact objects and is a detectable imprint in gravitational waves from inspiralling binary systems. The measurement of black hole Love numbers allows to test strong-field gravity.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-15 Takuya Katagiri , Tact Ikeda , Vitor Cardoso

We examine the tidal deformation of a nonrotating compact body (material body or black hole) in general relativity. The body's exterior metric is calculated in a simultaneous expansion in powers of the ratio between the distance to the body…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-24 Eric Poisson

The tidal deformability is a key observable to test the nature of compact objects in a binary coalescence. Within vacuum General Relativity, the tidal Love numbers of a four-dimensional black hole are strictly zero, while they are non-zero…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-26 Michela Silvestrini , Elisa Maggio , Sumanta Chakraborty , Paolo Pani

The metric outside a compact body deformed by a quadrupolar tidal field is universal up to its Love numbers, constants which encode the tidal response's dependence on the body's internal structure. For a non-rotating body, the deformed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-05 Philippe Landry

As a possible alternative to black holes, horizonless compact objects have significant implications for gravitational-wave physics. In this work, we utilize the standard linearized theory of general relativity to calculate the quadrupolar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-08 Rui-Xin Yang , Fei Xie , Dao-Jun Liu

We construct the external metric of a slowly rotating, tidally deformed material body in general relativity. The tidal forces acting on the body are assumed to be weak and to vary slowly with time, and the metric is obtained as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-03 Philippe Landry , Eric Poisson

Gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences are valuable for testing theories of gravity in the strong field regime. By measuring neutron star tidal deformability using gravitational waves from binary neutron stars, stringent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-21 Stephanie M. Brown

The coupling between the angular momentum of a compact object and an external tidal field gives rise to the "rotational" tidal Love numbers, which affect the tidal deformability of a spinning self-gravitating body and enter the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-25 Gonçalo Castro , Leonardo Gualtieri , Paolo Pani

The deformability of a compact object induced by a perturbing tidal field is encoded in the tidal Love numbers, which depend sensibly on the object's internal structure. These numbers are known only for static, spherically-symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-01 Paolo Pani , Leonardo Gualtieri , Andrea Maselli , Valeria Ferrari

One of the macroscopically measurable effects of gravity is the tidal deformability of astrophysical objects, which can be quantified by their tidal Love numbers. For planets and stars, these numbers measure the resistance of their material…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-25 Cecilia Chirenti , Camilo Posada , Victor Guedes

We show that rotating black holes do not experience any tidal deformation when they are perturbed by a weak and adiabatic gravitational field. The tidal deformability of an object is quantified by the so-called "Love numbers", which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-14 Horng Sheng Chia

The response of astrophysical compact objects to external tidal fields carries valuable information on the nature of these objects, on the equation of state of matter, and on the underlying gravitational theory. In this work, we highlight…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-23 Takuya Katagiri , Kent Yagi , Vitor Cardoso

Gravitational-wave measurements of the tidal deformability of neutron stars could reveal important information regarding their internal structure, the equation of state of high-dense nuclear matter and gravity in strong field regime. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-16 Liang Meng , Dao-Jun Liu

We investigate the nonlinear tidal response of relativistic neutron stars by computing the fully relativistic, static, quadratic Love numbers. Using both the worldline effective field theory for extended gravitating bodies and second-order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-17 Paolo Pani , Massimiliano Maria Riva , Luca Santoni , Nikola Savić , Filippo Vernizzi

The physical significance of tidal deformation in astronomical systems has long been known. The recently discovered universal I-Love-Q relations, which connect moment of inertia, quadrupole tidal Love number, and spin-induced quadrupole…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-19 Kenny L. S. Yip , P. T. Leung
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