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The recent gravitational wave observations provide insight into the extreme gravity regime of coalescing binaries, where gravity is strong, dynamical and non-linear. The interpretation of these observations relies on the comparison of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-19 Alexander Saffer , Nicolas Yunes

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

We study the effects of gravitational lensing on neutrino oscillations in the $\gamma$-spacetime which describes a static, axially-symmetric and asymptotically flat solution of the Einstein's field equations in vacuum. Using the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-26 Hrishikesh Chakrabarty , Debasish Borah , Ahmadjon Abdujabbarov , Daniele Malafarina , Bobomurat Ahmedov

Gravitational-wave memory effects are lasting changes in the strain and its time integrals. They can be computed in asymptotically flat spacetimes using the conservation and evolution equations in the Bondi-Sachs framework. Modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-04 Shammi Tahura , David A. Nichols , Kent Yagi

We perform searches for gravitational wave memory in the data of two major Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) experiments located in Europe and Australia. Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) are the primary sources of gravitational waves in…

We define the notion of energy, and compute its values, for gravitational systems involving terms quadratic in curvature. While our construction parallels that of ordinary Einstein gravity, there are significant differences both…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Deser , Bayram Tekin

The non-linearity of the theory of gravity induces a hysteresis effect in both the systems interacting with gravity and in the gravitational field. The effect is usually referred to as the memory effect. In this paper, we explore this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Raihaneh Moti , Ali Shojai

We describe neutrino radiation in general relativity by introducing the energy-momentum tensor of a null fluid into the Einstein equations. Investigating the geometry and analysis at null infinity, we prove that a component of the null…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-15 Lydia Bieri , David Garfinkle

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

Gravitational waves cause freely falling spinning objects to precess, resulting in a net orientation change called gyroscopic memory. In this paper, we will consider isolated gravitational sources in the post-Newtonian framework and compute…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-13 Guillaume Faye , Ali Seraj

We argue that soft gravitational radiation leads to a misidentification of the angular momentum of stars seen in distant galaxies, and that this could be interpreted as an additional mass inside the orbit of the star. It is tempting to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-16 Tom Banks , Willy Fischler

Einstein's special theory of relativity revolutionized physics by teaching us that space and time are not separate entities, but join as ``spacetime''. His general theory of relativity further taught us that spacetime is not just a stage on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Eanna E. Flanagan , Scott A. Hughes

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

We present a systematic and robust approach to nonlinear gravitational perturbations of vacuum spacetimes. This approach provides a basis for a theory of nonlinear gravitational waves. In particular, we show that the system of perturbative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-27 Andrzej Rostworowski

The dynamics of gravitational waves is investigated in full 3+1 dimensional numerical relativity, emphasizing the difficulties that one might encounter in numerical evolutions, particularly those arising from non-linearities and gauge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-09 Peter Anninos , Joan Masso , Edward Seidel , Wai-Mo Suen , Malcolm Tobias

We investigate the influence of cosmic magnetic fields on gravitational wave perturbations, and find exact solutions on large scales. We show that a large-scale magnetic field can generate large-scale non-decaying gravitational waves. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Roy Maartens , Christos Tsagas , Carlo Ungarelli

We describe an experiment to measure the electromagnetic analog of gravitational wave memory, the so-called electromagnetic memory. Whereas gravitational wave memory is a residual displacement of test masses, electromagnetic memory is a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-02 Lydia Bieri , David Garfinkle

Black hole perturbation theory, or more generally, perturbation theory on a Schwarzschild bockground, has been applied in several contexts, but usually under the simplifying assumption that the ADM momentum vanishes, namely, that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Reinaldo J. Gleiser , Alfredo E. Dominguez

The non-linear gravitational wave (GW) memory effect is a distinct prediction in general relativity. While the effect has been well studied for comparable mass binaries, it has mostly been overlooked for intermediate mass ratio inspirals…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-26 Tousif Islam , Scott E. Field , Gaurav Khanna , Niels Warburton

In this seven-part paper, we show that gravitational waves (classical and quantum) produce the accelerated de Sitter expansion at the start and at the end of the cosmological evolution of the Universe. In these periods, the Universe…

General Physics · Physics 2017-11-16 Leonid Marochnik