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The tidal deformation of compact objects, characterised by their Love numbers, provides insights into the internal structure of neutron stars and black holes. While static bosonic tidal Love numbers vanish for black holes in general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-15 Xiankai Pang , Yu Tian , Hongbao Zhang , Qingquan Jiang

We study the tidal deformations of the shape of a spinning black hole horizon due to a binary companion in the Bowen-York initial data set. We use the framework of quasi-local horizons and identify a black hole by marginally outer trapped…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Miriam Cabero , Badri Krishnan

Tidal Love numbers characterize the conservative, static response of compact objects to external tidal fields. Remarkably, these quantities vanish identically for asymptotically flat black holes in four-dimensional general relativity. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-29 Valerio De Luca , Brandon Khek , Justin Khoury , Mark Trodden

Tidal Love numbers of anti-de Sitter black holes are understood as linear response coefficients governing how the holographically dual plasma polarizes when the geometry of the space, in which the plasma lives, is deformed. So far, this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-01 Edgardo Franzin , Antonia M. Frassino , Jorge V. Rocha

We construct a novel effective field theory for a compact body coupled to gravity, whose key feature is that the dynamics of gravitational perturbations is explicitly determined by known solutions in black hole perturbation theory in four…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-04 Dimitrios Kosmopoulos , Davide Perrone , Mikhail Solon

The Weak Gravity Conjecture indicates that extremal black holes in the low energy effective field theory should be able to decay. This criterion gives rise to non-trivial constraints on the coefficients of higher-order derivative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-10 Valerio De Luca , Justin Khoury , Sam S. C. Wong

Precision measurements of the gravitational wave signal from compact binary inspirals allow us to constrain the internal structure of those objects via physical parameters such as the tidal Love numbers. In scalar-tensor theories, one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-25 Robin Fynn Diedrichs , Shinji Tsujikawa , Kent Yagi

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

It was shown recently that the static tidal response coefficients, called Love numbers, vanish identically for Kerr black holes in four dimensions. In this work, we confirm this result and extend it to the case of spin-0 and spin-1…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-26 Panagiotis Charalambous , Sergei Dubovsky , Mikhail M. Ivanov

Tidal Love numbers quantify the conservative static response of compact objects to external tidal fields, and are found to vanish exactly for asymptotically flat black holes in four-dimensional general relativity. Many aspects of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-17 Valerio De Luca , Brandon Khek , Justin Khoury , Mark Trodden

The tidal response of compact objects in an inspiraling binary system is measured by a set of tidal Love and dissipation numbers imprinted in the gravitational waveforms. While a four-dimensional black hole in vacuum within General…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-15 Takuya Katagiri , Hiroyuki Nakano , Kazuyuki Omukai

In the first part of this article I determine the geometry of a slowly rotating black hole deformed by generic tidal forces created by a remote distribution of matter. The metric of the deformed black hole is obtained by integrating the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-05 Eric Poisson

We study the tidal deformability of horizonless exotic compact objects, with implications for area quantized black holes. Since, any such horizonless compact object, including area quantized black hole, possesses a non-zero reflectivity, it…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-05 Sreejith Nair , Sumanta Chakraborty , Sudipta Sarkar

Tidal Love numbers of black holes, zero in classical general relativity for Kerr black holes in vacuum, become non-vanishing in the presence of exotic matter or in alternative theories of gravity, making them a powerful probe of fundamental…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-02 M. Andrés-Carcasona , G. Caneva Santoro

The tidal Love numbers (TLNs) encode the deformability of a self-gravitating object immersed in a tidal environment and depend significantly both on the object's internal structure and on the dynamics of the gravitational field. An…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-13 Vitor Cardoso , Edgardo Franzin , Andrea Maselli , Paolo Pani , Guilherme Raposo

The deformability of a compact object under the presence of a tidal perturbation is encoded in the tidal Love numbers (TLNs), which vanish for isolated black holes in vacuum. We show that the TLNs of black holes surrounded by matter fields…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-25 V. De Luca , P. Pani

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

We discuss the response of neutron stars to the tidal interaction in a compact binary system, as encoded in the Love number associated with the induced deformation. This problem is of interest for gravitational-wave astronomy as there may…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-29 A. J. Penner , N. Andersson , L. Samuelsson , I. Hawke , D. I. Jones

An extended body orbiting a compact object undergoes tidal deformations by the background gravitational field. Tidal invariants built up with the Riemann tensor and their derivatives evaluated along the world line of the body are essential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-21 Donato Bini , Andrea Geralico

We study the axial (magnetic) tidal Love numbers of a Schwarzschild black hole surrounded by a spherically symmetric matter distribution. While the formalism developed here is general, we specialize to the case of anisotropic fluids as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-05 Simone D'Onofrio , Sayak Datta , Andrea Maselli