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This tutorial leads the reader through the details of calculating the properties of gravitational waves from orbiting binaries, such as two orbiting black holes. Using analogies with electromagnetic radiation, the tutorial presents a…

Physics Education · Physics 2019-08-15 Robert C. Hilborn

The low frequency part of the gravitational wave spectrum generated by local physics, such as a phase transition or parametric resonance, is largely fixed by causality, offering a clean window into the early Universe. In this work, this low…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-17 Anson Hook , Gustavo Marques-Tavares , Davide Racco

The observation of gravitational waves has opened a new window into the Universe through gravitational-wave astronomy. However, high-frequency gravitational waves remain undetected. In this work, we propose that spin systems can be employed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-14 Jiamin Liang , Mingqiu Li , Yu Gao , Wei Ji , Sichun Sun , Qi-Shu Yan

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…

Using black hole perturbation theory, we calculate the gravitational waves produced by test particles moving on bound geodesic orbits about rotating black holes. The orbits we consider are generic - simultaneously eccentric and inclined.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Steve Drasco , Scott A. Hughes

Dissipation is an intrinsic property of the cosmic fluid, leading to the damping of curvature perturbations at small scales. In this paper, we comprehensively study dissipative effects in gravitational waves induced by curvature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-09 Yan-Heng Yu , Zhe Chang , Sai Wang

The transit of a gravitating radiation pulse past arrays of detectors stationed near future null infinity in the vacuum is considered. It is shown that the relative positions and clock times of the detectors before and after the radiation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-24 Andrew Strominger , Alexander Zhiboedov

Within the closed universe, we obtain the amplitude and frequency of gravitational waves in the terms of discrete wave numbers, wave propagation time, and cosmological constant using the deviation equation in the first-order perturbed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-27 Jafar Khodagholizadeh , Amir H. Abbassi , Ali Vahedi , Komeil Babaei

The nonlinear memory effect is a fascinating prediction of general relativity (GR), in which oscillatory gravitational-wave (GW) signals are generically accompanied by a monotonically-increasing strain which persists in the detector long…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-23 Alexander C. Jenkins , Mairi Sakellariadou

Gravitational wave bursters are sources which emit repeatedly bursts of gravitational waves, and have been recently suggested as potentially interesting candidates for gravitational wave (GW) detectors. Mechanisms that could give rise to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Florian Dubath , Stefano Foffa , Maria Alice Gasparini , Michele Maggiore , Riccardo Sturani

We study the thermodynamic properties of a freely falling ensemble of gyroscopes after the passage of a weak gravitational wave. Due to the precession memory effect, the thermodynamic quantities will experience a change because of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-05 Raihaneh Moti , Ali Shojai

In GW150914, approximately $3M_{\odot}$ were radiated away as gravitational waves from the binary black hole system as it merged. The stress energy of the gravitational wave itself causes a nonlinear memory effect in the detectors here on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-27 Aaron D. Johnson , Shasvath J. Kapadia , Andrew Osborne , Alex Hixon , Daniel Kennefick

We investigate the response of a model gravitational wave detector consisting of two particles to the quantized cylindrical gravitational waves and obtain a relation between the standard deviation of the distance between two particles and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-30 Feifan He , Baocheng Zhang

We study gravitational waves to first and second order in amplitude in vacuum asymptotically flat spacetimes. The Einstein equations are solved to first order and these solutions are superposed to form a time-symmetric ingoing and then…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-13 J. Bicak , J. Katz , T. Ledvinka , D. Lynden-Bell

We present an electromagnetic analog of gravitational wave memory. That is, we consider what change has occurred to a detector of electromagnetic radiation after the wave has passed. Rather than a distortion in the detector, as occurs in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Lydia Bieri , David Garfinkle

Space-based gravitational wave detection is based on the astrodynamical equations derived from gravitational theory to detect changes in distance between spacecraft/celestial bodies and/or their state changes caused by gravitational waves.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-04 Wei-Tou Ni

Largely motivated by the development of highly sensitive gravitational-wave detectors, our understanding of merging compact binaries and the gravitational waves they generate has improved dramatically in recent years. Breakthroughs in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 Scott A. Hughes

The diffraction effects on gravitational waves propagating through a stellar cluster are analyzed in the relevant approximation of Fresnel diffraction limit. We find that a gravitational wave scintillation effect - similar to the radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Congedo , F. De Paolis , P. Longo , A. A. Nucita , D. Vetrugno

Gravitational-wave (GW) memory effects produce permanent shifts in the GW strain and its time integrals after the passage of a burst of GWs. Their presence is closely tied to symmetries of asymptotically flat spacetimes and fluxes of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 Shammi Tahura , David A. Nichols , Kent Yagi