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The direct observation of gravitational waves (GWs) in the near future, and the corresponding determination of the number of independent polarizations, is a powerful tool to test general relativity and alternative theories of gravity. In…

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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

In the present work we approximate an ultrarelativistic jet by a homogeneous beam of null matter with finite width. Then, we study the influence of this beam over the space-time metric in the framework of higher-derivative gravity. We find…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 E. C. de Rey Neto , J. C. N. de Araujo , O. D. Aguiar

We study whether binary black hole template banks can be used to search for the gravitational waves emitted by general binary coalescences. To recover binary signals from noisy data, matched-filtering techniques are typically required. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-16 Horng Sheng Chia , Thomas D. P. Edwards

Compact binaries inspiralling along quasi-circular orbits are the most plausible gravitational wave (GW) sources for the operational, planned and proposed laser interferometers. We provide new class of restricted post-Newtonian accurate GW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-12-20 Achamveedu Gopakumar

Gravitational waves (GWs) from merging binary black holes (BHs) enable unprecedented tests of gravitational theories beyond Einstein's General Relativity (GR) in highly nonlinear, dynamical regimes. Such GW measurements require an accurate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-15 Iris van Gemeren , Banafsheh Shiralilou , Tanja Hinderer

Among various strong-curvature extensions to General Relativity, Einstein-Dilaton-Gauss-Bonnet gravity stands out as the only nontrivial theory containing quadratic curvature corrections while being free from the Ostrogradsky instability to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-05 Andrea Maselli , Paolo Pani , Leonardo Gualtieri , Valeria Ferrari

A certain class of exact solutions of Einstein Maxwell spacetime in general relativity is discussed which demonstrates at the level of theory that, when certain parametric resonance condition is met, the interaction of electromagnetic field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-24 Ruodi Yan , Yun Kau Lau

Binary compact objects will be among the important sources for the future space-based gravitational wave detectors. Such binary compact objects include stellar massive binary black hole, binary neutron star, binary white dwarf and mixture…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-21 Li-Fang Li , Zhoujian Cao

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

Gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences provide a unique laboratory to test properties of compact objects. As alternatives to the ordinary black holes in general relativity, various exotic compact objects have been proposed.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-03 Tatsuya Narikawa , Nami Uchikata , Takahiro Tanaka

We compute the non-linear memory contributions to the gravitational-wave amplitudes for compact binaries in eccentric orbits at the third post-Newtonian (3PN) order in general relativity. These contributions are hereditary in nature as they…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-22 Michael Ebersold , Yannick Boetzel , Guillaume Faye , Chandra K. Mishra , Bala R. Iyer , Philippe Jetzer

Gravitational waves from extreme gravity events such as the coalescence of two black holes in a binary system fill our observable universe, bearing with them the underlying theory of gravity driving their process. One compelling alternative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-20 Zack Carson , Kent Yagi

We study second order gravitational perturbations on plane wave spacetimes from both the metric and curvature perturbation points of view. For the former, we explicitly use the isometries of the background to introduce tensor oscillator…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-05 Kwinten Fransen , David Pereñiguez , Jaime Redondo-Yuste

Within the context of the Effective Field Theory (EFT) framework to gravitational dynamics, we compute the Hamiltonian, source quadrupole moment, and gravitational-wave energy flux for (non-spinning) inspiralling compact binaries at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-27 Loris Amalberti , Zixin Yang , Rafael A. Porto

We study the conservative dynamics of spinless compact objects in a general effective theory of gravity which includes a metric and an arbitrary number of scalar fields, through $\mathcal{O}(G^{3})$. Departures from Einstein gravity, which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-14 Jordan Wilson-Gerow

The curvaton scenario for the generation of the cosmological curvature perturbation on large scales represents an alternative to the standard slow-roll scenario of inflation in which the observed density perturbations are due to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 N. Bartolo , S. Matarrese , A. Riotto , A. Vaihkonen

A rotating star's oblateness creates a deformation in the gravitational field outside the star, which is measured by the quadrupole-moment tensor. We consider the effect of the quadrupole moment on the orbital motion and rate of inspiral of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-25 Eric Poisson

Noncommutative gravity is a natural method of quantizing spacetime by promoting the spacetime coordinates themselves to operators which do not commute. This approach is motivated, for example, from a quantum gravity perspective, among…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-14 Leah Jenks , Kent Yagi , Stephon Alexander

One of the promising sources of gravitational radiation is a binary system composed of compact stars. It is an important question how the rotation of the bodies and the eccentricity of the orbit affect the detectable signal. Here we present…

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