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The "memory effect" is the permanent change in the relative separation of test particles resulting from the passage of gravitational radiation. We investigate the memory effect for a general, spatially flat FLRW cosmology by considering the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-17 Alexander Tolish , Robert M. Wald

Gravitational waves (GWs) are direct probes of cosmological gravity, sensitive to space-time inhomogeneities along their propagation. The presence of massive objects breaks homogeneity and isotropy, allowing for new interactions between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-12 Nicola Menadeo , Serena Giardino , Miguel Zumalacárregui

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 examine gravitational wave memory in the case where sources and detector are in a $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. We consider the case where the universe can be highly inhomogeneous, but the gravitatational radiation is treated in the short…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-25 Lydia Bieri , David Garfinkle , Nicolas Yunes

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

This paper discusses the effects of gravitational waves on high-accuracy astrometric observations such as those delivered by Gaia. Depending on the frequency of gravitational waves, two regimes for the influence of gravitational waves on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-14 Sergei A. Klioner

Gravitational wave memory is said to arise when a gravitational wave burst produces changes in a physical system that persist even after that wave has passed. This paper analyzes gravitational wave bursts in plane wave spacetimes, deriving…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-15 Abraham I. Harte , Thomas B. Mieling , Marius A. Oancea , Elisabeth Steininger

A gravitational wave pulse, while passing through spacetime, brings about a change in the relative separation between free particles. This `memory effect' serves as one of the signatures of gravitational waves. In this paper, we consider…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-13 Sucheta Datta , Sarbari Guha , Deeshani Mitra

Gravitational waves (GWs) offer a new observational window into the universe, providing insights into compact objects and cosmic structures. Gravitational lensing, commonly studied in electromagnetic waves, also affects GWs, introducing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-25 Xing-Yu Yang , Tan Chen , Rong-Gen Cai

We study the gravitational wave (GW) production induced by the asymmetric jets of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The asymmetric jets result in a recoil force acted on the central compact object, whose motion leads to emission of GW. Under…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-25 Shuang Du , Xiao-Dong Li , Yi-Ming Hu , Fang-Kun Peng , Miao Li

Gravitational waves, although generally associated with extremely microscopic effects, can displace by hundreds of kilometers the pulsar interstellar scintillation patterns that bathe the Earth. The combination of the pulsar and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Redouane Fakir

Over a hundred gravitational-wave signals have now been detected from the mergers of black holes and neutron stars, but other sources of gravitational waves have not yet been discovered. Some of the most violent explosive events in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-24 Jade Powell , Paul D. Lasky

This article aims at comparing gravitational wave memory effect in a Schwarzschild spacetime with that of other compact objects with static and spherically symmetric spacetime, with the purpose of proposing a procedure for differentiating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-12 Soumya Bhattacharya , Shramana Ghosh

We discuss the gravitational wave background (GWB) from a cosmological population of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Among various emission mechanisms for the gravitational waves (GWs), we pay a particular attention to the vast anisotropic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Takashi Hiramatsu , Kei Kotake , Hideaki Kudoh , Atsushi Taruya

Neutron star interiors are a fantastic laboratory for high density physics in extreme environments. Probing this system with standard electromagnetic observations is, however, a challenging endeavour, as the radiation tends to be scattered…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-08 Brynmor Haskell , Kai Schwenzer

Anisotropic bursts of gravitational radiation produced by events such as super-massive black hole mergers leave permanent imprints on space. Such gravitational wave "memory" (GWM) signals are, in principle, detectable through pulsar timing…

The nonlinear memory effect is a slowly-growing, non-oscillatory contribution to the gravitational-wave amplitude. It originates from gravitational waves that are sourced by the previously emitted waves. In an ideal gravitational-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-27 Marc Favata

Gravitational waves (GWs) originating from cosmological sources offer direct insights into the physics of the primordial Universe, the fundamental nature of gravity, and the cosmic expansion of the Universe. In this review paper, we present…

A stochastic gravitational wave background causes the apparent positions of distant sources to fluctuate, with angular deflections of order the characteristic strain amplitude of the gravitational waves. These fluctuations may be detectable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-28 Laura G. Book , Éanna É. Flanagan

We assume that the cosmological dark matter is composed of massive neutral scalar particles that decay into two massless particles. The decay produces a stochastic background of gravitational waves (GWs) via a 'memory effect' mechanism. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-14 Bruce Allen