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We describe a unitary scattering process, as observed from spatial infinity, of massless scalar particles on an asymptotically flat Schwarzschild black hole background. In order to do so, we split the problem in two different regimes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-21 Panos Betzios , Nava Gaddam , Olga Papadoulaki

Numerical relativists can now produce gravitational waveforms with memory effects routinely and accurately. The gravitational-wave memory effect contains very low-frequency components, including a persistent offset. The presence of these…

The existence of curvature singularities and the information and firewall paradoxes are significant problems for the conventional black hole model. The black mirror provides a CPT-symmetric alternative to the classical description. We show…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-21 Pau Amaro Seoane

We argue that massless gravitons in all even dimensional de Sitter (dS) spacetimes higher than two admit a linear memory effect arising from their propagation inside the null cone. Assume that gravitational waves (GWs) are being generated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-18 Yi-Zen Chu

In the first paper in this series, we introduced "persistent gravitational wave observables" as a framework for generalizing the gravitational wave memory effect. These observables are nonlocal in time and nonzero in the presence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-20 Éanna É. Flanagan , Alexander M. Grant , Abraham I. Harte , David A. Nichols

The geodesic deviation of a pair of test particles is an natural observable for the gravitational memory effect. Nevertheless in curved spacetime, this observable is plagued with various issues that need to be clarified before one can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-27 Chong-Sun Chu , Yoji Koyama

We show that gravitational floating orbits may exist for black holes with rotating hairs. These black hole hairs could originate from the superradiant growth of a light axion field around the rotating black holes. If a test particle rotates…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-27 Jun Zhang , Huan Yang

We show the existence of a Hawking vector field in a full neighborhood of a local, regular, bifurcate, non-expanding horizon embedded in a smooth Einstein-Maxwell space-time without assuming the underlying space-time is analytic. It extends…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-18 Pin Yu

We revisit the issue of memory effects, i.e. effects giving rise to a net cumulative change of the configuration of test particles, using a toy model describing the emission of radiation by a compact source and focusing on the scalar, hence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-10 Hebertt Leandro , Riccardo Sturani

Nonlinear gravitational wave memory is a surprise of theoretical physics. Whereas it is understood that a gravitational wave induces oscillatory squeezing and stretching motion in a collection of freely-falling test masses, it is unexpected…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-27 Robert R. Caldwell

Gravitational-wave memory is a non-linear effect predicted by general relativity that remains undetected. We apply a Bayesian analysis framework to search for gravitational-wave memory using binary black hole mergers in LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-19 Shun Yin Cheung , Paul D. Lasky , Eric Thrane

With the aim of continuing the exploration of near-horizon charges in higher-curvature gravity, searching for sectors leading to universal behaviors, we first provide a thorough revision and formulae of the covariant phase-space method…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-20 Seyed Naseh Sajadi , Supakchai Ponglertsakul , Julio Oliva

It has been shown recently that extreme Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m black holes perturbed by a minimally coupled, free, massless scalar field have permanent scalar hair. The hair - a conserved charge calculated at the black hole's event horizon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-19 Lior M. Burko , Gaurav Khanna , Subir Sabharwal

Gravitational waves are rapidly becoming a very reliable tool for testing alternative theories of gravity. In particular, features in the gravitational wave emission during black hole ringdown phase provide a direct probe of the spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Ruifeng Dong , Dejan Stojkovic

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are designed to detect gravitational waves with periods from several months to several years, e.g. those produced by by wide supermassive black-hole binaries in the centers of distant galaxies. Here we show that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Rutger van Haasteren , Yuri Levin

We study gravitational wave memory effect in the FRW cosmological model with matter and cosmological constant. Since the background is curved, gravitational radiation develops a tail part arriving after the main signal that travels along…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-02 Niko Jokela , K. Kajantie , Miika Sarkkinen

The memory effect is known to introduce a permanent displacement in the gravitational wave (GW) detectors after the passage of a GW signal. While the linear memory adheres to the source properties, the non-linear memory is a secondary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-05 Samik Dutta , Ankur Chhabra , Aritra Banerjee , Sajal Mukherjee , Subhendra Mohanty

With the multitude of gravitational wave observations that have been made in the past ten years, probing the dynamical and nonlinear nature of strong gravity is becoming more and more feasible. One promising way to test the nonlinear nature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-28 Keefe Mitman , Maximiliano Isi , Will M. Farr

Gravitational memory provides a distinctive low-frequency probe of gravity, but explicit merger studies beyond general relativity remain limited. In this work, we investigate memory from binary black hole mergers in Ricci-coupled…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-11 Jann Zosso , Silvia Gasparotto , Llibert Aresté Saló , Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

To investigate the cosmic no hair conjecture, we analyze numerically 1-dimensional plane symmetrical inhomogeneities due to gravitational waves in vacuum spacetimes with a positive cosmological constant. Assuming periodic gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-01 Hisa-aki SHINKAI , Kei-ichi MAEDA