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We apply common gravitational wave inference procedures on binary black hole merger waveforms beyond general relativity. We consider dynamical Chern-Simons gravity, a modified theory of gravity with origins in string theory and loop quantum…

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In this paper we obtain the Fourier Transform of a continuous gravitational wave. We have analysed the data set for (i) one year observation time and (ii) arbitrary observation time, for arbitrary location of detector and source taking into…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. C. Srivastava , S. K. Sahay

The gravitational waveform of a merging stellar-mass binary is described at leading order by a quadrupolar mode. However, the complete waveform includes higher-order modes, which encode valuable information not accessible from the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-25 Ethan Payne , Colm Talbot , Eric Thrane

At second-order, scalar perturbations can source traceless and transverse perturbations to the metric, called induced gravitational waves (IGW). The apparent gauge-dependence of the IGW obscures the interpretation of the stochastic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-09 James Gurian , Donghui Jeong , Jai-chan Hwang , Hyerim Noh

As gravitational-wave (GW) observations of binary black holes are becoming a precision tool for physics and astronomy, several subdominant effects in the GW signals need to be accurately modeled. Previous studies have shown that neglecting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-22 Ajit Kumar Mehta , Praveer Tiwari , Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel , Chandra Kant Mishra , Vijay Varma , Parameswaran Ajith

BMS+ transformations act nontrivially on outgoing gravitational scattering data while preserving intrinsic structure at future null infinity (I+). BMS- transformations similarly act on ingoing data at past null infinity (I-). In this paper…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Andrew Strominger

The standard model extension (SME) is an effective field theory framework that can be used to study the possible violations of Lorentz symmetry in the gravitational interaction. In the SME's gauge invariant linearized gravity sector, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-21 Cheng Gong , Tao Zhu , Rui Niu , Qiang Wu , Jing-Lei Cui , Xin Zhang , Wen Zhao , Anzhong Wang

We employ multiple-scale analysis to systematically derive analytical approximations describing the cosmological propagation of gravitational waves beyond general relativity, in a framework with two interacting spin-2 fields with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-25 Marco de Cesare , Mairi Sakellariadou , Benjamin Sutton

The meaning of local observables is poorly understood in gauge theories, not to speak of quantum gravity. As a step towards a better understanding we study asymptotic (infrared) transformation in local quantum physics. Our observables are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-24 M. Asorey , A. P. Balachandran , F. Lizzi , G. Marmo

We present an analytical waveform family describing gravitational waves (GWs) from the inspiral, merger and ringdown of non-spinning black-hole binaries including the effect of several non-quadrupole modes [($\ell = 2, m = \pm 1), (\ell =…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-20 Ajit Kumar Mehta , Chandra Kant Mishra , Vijay Varma , Parameswaran Ajith

Previous work has developed the theory of linearized gravitational wave (GW) interactions with matter using the Bondi-Sachs formalism, but with the perturbations restricted to be quadrupolar, i.e., the angular dependence is spherical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Ulrich K. Beckering Vinckers , Nigel T. Bishop

We develop a general formalism for treating radiative degrees of freedom near $\mathscr{I}^{+}$ in theories with an arbitrary Ricci-flat internal space. These radiative modes are encoded in a generalized news tensor which decomposes into…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-07 Christian Ferko , Gautam Satishchandran , Savdeep Sethi

The challenge of defining a physical notion of gravitational waves, together with the associated dynamical degrees of freedom of a gravity theory, is a long-standing problem that famously lead to the discovery the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-26 Jann Zosso

The relation between gravitational memory effects and Bondi-Metzner-Sachs symmetry of the asymptotically flat spacetimes is studied in the scalar-tensor theory. For this purpose, the solutions to the equations of motion near the future null…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-19 Shaoqi Hou , Zong-Hong Zhu

Gravitational memory effects and the BMS freedoms exhibited at future null infinity have recently been resolved and utilized in numerical relativity simulations. With this, gravitational wave models and our understanding of the fundamental…

Explaining gravitational-wave (GW) observations of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers requires an understanding of matter beyond nuclear saturation density. Our current knowledge of the properties of high-density matter relies on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-15 Giuseppe Rivieccio , Davide Guerra , Milton Ruiz , José A. Font

The Bondi-van der Burg-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) group, which uniquely describes the symmetries of asymptotic infinity and therefore of the gravitational waves that propagate there, has become increasingly important for accurate modeling of…

Gravitational waves (GWs) provide a unique opportunity to test General Relativity (GR) in the highly dynamical, strong-field regime. So far, the majority of the tests of GR with GW signals have been carried out following parametrized,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-17 Félix-Louis Julié , Lorenzo Pompili , Alessandra Buonanno

Nonlinear Doebner-Goldin [Phys. Rev. A 54, 3764 (1996)] gauge transformations (NGT) defined in terms of a wave function $\psi(x)$ do not form a group. To get a group property one has to consider transformations that act differently on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Marek Czachor

On-shell methods have found a new application to local observables such as asymptotic radiation fields and gravitational waveforms. While these observables are invariant under small gauge transformations, they are known to depend on a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-19 Asaad Elkhidir , Donal O'Connell , Radu Roiban