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Gravitational waves (GWs) from merging black holes allow for unprecedented probes of strong-field gravity. Testing gravity in this regime requires accurate predictions of gravitational waveform templates in viable extensions of General…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-30 Banafsheh Shiralilou , Tanja Hinderer , Samaya Nissanke , Néstor Ortiz , Helvi Witek

A preliminary discussion is given of the prospects that gravitational-wave observations of binary inspiral of black holes could reveal or constrain quantum modifications to black hole dynamics, such as are required to preserve postulates of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-08 Steven B. Giddings

A joint fit of the mass and redshift distributions of the population of Binary Black Holes detected with Gravitational-Wave observations can be used to obtain constraints on the Hubble parameter and on deviations from General Relativity in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-29 Michele Mancarella , Nicola Borghi , Stefano Foffa , Edwin Genoud-Prachex , Francesco Iacovelli , Michele Maggiore , Michele Moresco , Matteo Schulz

Gravitational-wave memory is a low-frequency, non-oscillatory component of the radiation field that provides a potentially powerful but as yet undetected probe of strong-field gravity. We present the first calculation of gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-13 Silvia Gasparotto , Jann Zosso , Llibert Aresté Saló , Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

Gravitational radiation offers a unique possibility to study the large-scale structure of the Universe, gravitational wave sources and propagation in a completely novel way. Given that gravitational wave maps contain a wealth of…

Thanks to the recent discoveries of gravitational wave signals from binary black hole mergers by Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory and Advanced Virgo, the genuinely strong-field dynamics of spacetime can now be…

Force-Free Electrodynamics (FFE) describes a particular regime of magnetically dominated relativistic plasmas, which arises on several astrophysical scenarios of interest such as pulsars or active galactic nuclei. In this article, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-20 Federico Carrasco , Oscar Reula

In addition to producing loud gravitational waves (GW), the dynamics of a binary black hole system could induce emission of electromagnetic (EM) radiation by affecting the behavior of plasmas and electromagnetic fields in their vicinity. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-21 Carlos Palenzuela , Luis Lehner , Shin Yoshida

Astrophysical phenomena involving massive black holes (BHs) in close binaries are expected to leave detectable signatures in the electromagnetic and gravitational-wave spectrum. Such imprints may provide precious information to probe the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-06 Andrea Maselli , Kostas Kokkotas , Pablo Laguna

Gravitational wave observations of compact binary mergers are already providing stringent tests of general relativity and constraints on modified gravity. Ground-based interferometric detectors will soon reach design sensitivity and they…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-07 Scott E. Perkins , Nicolás Yunes , Emanuele Berti

Ringdown signals from perturbed black holes (BHs) offer a clean window into BH spacetime, strong-field gravity, and fundamental physics. Presently the quasi-normal modes of stellar-mass BH ringdowns have been successfully extracted in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-24 Ziming Wang , Han Wang , Yuxin Yang , Yiming Dong , Hai-Tian Wang , Yi-Ming Hu , Lijing Shao

We investigate the gravitational energy-momentum distribution in the space-time of two black holes in circular orbit, in the context of the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity. This field configuration is important because…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-02-01 J. W. Maluf , S. C. Ulhoa , J. F. da Rocha-Neto

The magnetically polarized matter in astrophysical systems may be relevant in some magnetically dominated regions. For instance, the funnel that is generated in some highly magnetized disks configurations whereby relativistic jets are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-25 Oscar M. Pimentel , F. D. Lora-Clavijo , Guillermo A. González

We introduce a novel method to compute gravitational wave amplitudes within the framework of effective field theory. By reinterpreting the Feynman diagram expansion as a Born series, our method offers several key advantages. It directly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-19 Simon Caron-Huot , Miguel Correia , Giulia Isabella , Mikhail Solon

Almost a hundred compact binary mergers have been detected via gravitational waves by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration in the past few years providing us with a significant amount of new information on black holes and neutron stars. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-12 Kutay A. Çokluk , Kadri Yakut , Bruno Giacomazzo

A milestone of multi-messenger astronomy has been achieved with the detection of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star merger accompanied by observations of several associated electromagnetic counterparts. Joint observations can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-28 Chris Pankow , Eve A. Chase , Scott Coughlin , Michael Zevin , Vassiliki Kalogera

The last evolutionary stages of massive black hole binaries prior to coalescence is dominated by the emission of gravitational waves, which will be probed by the future Laser Interferometer Space Antenna. If gas is present around the two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-25 Giacomo Fedrigo , Alessandro Lupi , Alessia Franchini , Matteo Bonetti

The theory of gravitational wave turbulence describes the long-term statistical behaviour of a set of weakly nonlinear interacting waves. In this paper, we aim to study aspects of gravitational turbulence within the framework of general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-01 Benoît Gay , Eugeny Babichev , Sébastien Galtier , Karim Noui

We determine the binding energy, the total gravitational wave energy flux, and the gravitational wave modes for a binary of rapidly spinning black holes, working in linearized gravity and at leading orders in the orbital velocity, but to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-22 Nils Siemonsen , Jan Steinhoff , Justin Vines

We conduct a descriptive analysis of the multipolar structure of gravitational-radiation waveforms from equal-mass aligned-spin mergers, following an approach first presented in the complementary context of nonspinning black holes of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 Bernard J. Kelly , John G. Baker , William D. Boggs , Sean T. McWilliams , Joan Centrella