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Near-horizon symmetries are studied for black hole solutions to Einstein equations containing supertranslation field constructed by Compere and Long. The metric is transformed to variables in which the horizon is located at the surface…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-02 Mikhail Z. Iofa

In this note we first review the degenerate vacua arising from the BMS symmetries. According to the discussion in [1] one can define BMS-analogous supertranslation and superrotation for spacetime with black hole in Gaussian null…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-03 Rong-Gen Cai , Shan-Ming Ruan , Yun-Long Zhang

The Bondi-van der Burg-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) group, as the asymptotic symmetry group of asymptotically flat spacetimes, plays a central role in connecting infrared structures of gravity with soft theorems and gravitational memory. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Nihar Ranjan Ghosh , Malay K. Nandy

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…

In a Rindler-type coordinate system spanned in a region outside of a black hole horizon, we have nonvanishing classical holographic charges as soft hairs on the horizon for stationary black holes. Taking a large black hole mass limit, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-12 Masahiro Hotta , Jose Trevison , Koji Yamaguchi

Gravitational memory effects are predictions of general relativity that are characterized by an observable effect that persists after the passage of gravitational waves. In recent years, they have garnered particular interest, both due to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-30 Alexander M. Grant , Keefe Mitman

Black hole--neutron star (BHNS) binary mergers can form disks in which magnetorotational instability (MRI)-induced turbulence may drive accretion onto the remnant BH, supporting relativistic jets and providing the engine for a short-hard…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-10-10 Zachariah B. Etienne , Vasileios Paschalidis , Stuart L. Shapiro

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 wave memory is studied in the context of a certain class of braneworld wormholes. Unlike other wormhole geometries, this novel class of wormholes do not require any exotic matter fields for its traversability. First, we study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-02 Indranil Chakraborty , Soumya Bhattacharya , Sumanta Chakraborty

We examine the temporary evolution of axisymmetric magnetospheres around rapidly rotating black holes (BHs), by applying our two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulation code. Assuming a stellar-mass BH, we find that the created pairs fail…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-02 Kouichi Hirotani , Hsien Shang , Ruben Krasnopolsky , Ken-ichi Nishikawa

The Bondi-van der Burg-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) group is the asymptotic symmetry group of asymptotically flat spacetime. It is infinite dimensional and entails an infinite number of conservation laws. According to the black hole membrane…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 Robert F. Penna

Black hole-neutron star (BHNS) binary mergers are candidate engines for generating both short-hard gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) and detectable gravitational waves. Using our most recent conformal thin-sandwich BHNS initial data and our fully…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-02 Zachariah B. Etienne , Yuk Tung Liu , Stuart L. Shapiro , Thomas W. Baumgarte

Isolated objects in asymptotically flat spacetimes in general relativity are characterized by their conserved charges associated with the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) group. These charges include total energy, linear momentum, intrinsic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-09 Éanna É. Flanagan , David A. Nichols

The memory effect at null infinity, $\mathcal{I}^+$, can be defined in terms of the permanent relative displacement of test particles (at leading order in $1/r$) resulting from the passage of a burst of gravitational radiation. In $D=4$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-01 Adel A. Rahman , Robert M. Wald

Recently, Hawking, Perry and Strominger described a physical process that implants supertranslational hair on a Schwarzschild black hole by an infalling matter shock wave without spherical symmetry. Using the BMS-type symmetries of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-22 Sanved Kolekar , Jorma Louko

After a brief summary of the basic properties of stationary spacetimes representing rotating, charged black holes in strong axisymmetric magnetic fields, we concentrate on extremal cases, for which the horizon surface gravity vanishes. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-06 Jiří Bičák , Filip Hejda

In this paper, we study the gravitational wave (GW) memory effect for a black hole embedded in a dark matter halo described by a Hernquist-type density profile, both with and without a spike. We first solve the geodesic equations in this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-02 Soumya Bhattacharya , Chiranjeeb Singha

Recently symmetries of gravity and gauge fields in the asymptotic regions of spacetime have been shown to play vital role in their low energy scattering phenomena. Further, for the black hole spacetime, near horizon symmetry has been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-25 Mousumi Maitra , Debaprasad Maity , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

Null shells are a useful geometric construction to study the propagation of infinitesimally thin concentrations of massless particles or impulsive waves. After recalling the necessary and sufficient conditions obtained in [28] that allow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-31 Miguel Manzano , Marc Mars

We discuss BMS supertranslations both at null-infinity and on the horizon for the case of the Schwarzschild black hole. We show that both kinds of supertranslations lead to infinetly many gapless physical excitations. On this basis we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 Artem Averin , Gia Dvali , Cesar Gomez , Dieter Lust