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In GW150914, approximately $3M_{\odot}$ were radiated away as gravitational waves from the binary black hole system as it merged. The stress energy of the gravitational wave itself causes a nonlinear memory effect in the detectors here on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-27 Aaron D. Johnson , Shasvath J. Kapadia , Andrew Osborne , Alex Hixon , Daniel Kennefick

The nonlinear memory effect is a fascinating prediction of general relativity (GR), in which oscillatory gravitational-wave (GW) signals are generically accompanied by a monotonically-increasing strain which persists in the detector long…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-23 Alexander C. Jenkins , Mairi Sakellariadou

We present a perturbative treatment of gravitational wave memory. The coordinate invariance of Einstein's equations leads to a type of gauge invariance in perturbation theory. As with any gauge invariant theory, results are more clear when…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-23 Lydia Bieri , David Garfinkle

Globular clusters (GCs) are crucial for studying stellar dynamics and galactic structure, yet precise measurements of their distances and masses are often limited by uncertainties in electromagnetic (EM) observations. We present a novel…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-07 Jie Wu , Yao Xiao , Mengfei Sun , Jin Li

Efficient searches for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence are crucial for gravitational wave observations. We present a proof-of-concept for a method that utilizes a neural network taking an SNR map, a stack of SNR time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-16 Takahiro S. Yamamoto , Kipp Cannon , Hayato Motohashi , Hiroaki W. H. Tahara

Gravitational-wave memory manifests as a permanent distortion of an idealized gravitational-wave detector and arises generically from energetic astrophysical events. For example, binary black hole mergers are expected to emit memory bursts…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-10 Lucy O. McNeill , Eric Thrane , Paul D. Lasky

A novel methodology for analysing the relation between the energy density in gravitational waves and primordial power spectra is developed. Focusing on scalar-induced gravitational radiation, this methodology is applied to a number of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-14 Daniel Frolovsky , Florian Kuhnel , Ioanna Stamou

We examine gravitational wave memory in the case where sources and detector are in an expanding cosmology. For simplicity, we treat the case where the cosmology is de Sitter spacetime, and discuss the possibility of generalizing our results…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-21 Lydia Bieri , David Garfinkle , Shing-Tung Yau

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…

This tutorial leads the reader through the details of calculating the properties of gravitational waves from orbiting binaries, such as two orbiting black holes. Using analogies with electromagnetic radiation, the tutorial presents a…

Physics Education · Physics 2019-08-15 Robert C. Hilborn

The spin memory effect is a recently predicted relativistic phenomenon in asymptotically flat spacetimes that become nonradiative infinitely far in the past and future. Between these early and late times, the magnetic-parity part of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-28 David A. Nichols

In order to extract information about the properties of compact binaries, we must estimate the noise power spectral density of gravitational-wave data, which depends on the properties of the gravitational-wave detector. In practice, it is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-18 Colm Talbot , Eric Thrane

Strict measurement of the speed of gravitational wave (GW) is very important for fundamental physics. In this paper, taking cosmological effect into account, we derive a more precise formula for calculating the speed of GW based on GW…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-17 Shuang Du

Using black hole perturbation theory, we calculate the gravitational waves produced by test particles moving on bound geodesic orbits about rotating black holes. The orbits we consider are generic - simultaneously eccentric and inclined.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Steve Drasco , Scott A. Hughes

In the first paper in this series, a class of observables that generalized the gravitational wave memory effect were introduced and given the name "persistent gravitational wave observables." These observables are all nonlocal in time,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-21 Alexander M. Grant , David A. Nichols

The gravitational wave signal produced by the merger of two compact objects includes both an oscillatory transient and a non-oscillatory part, the so-called memory effect. This produces a permanent displacement of test masses and has not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-04 Jamie Bamber , Antonios Tsokaros , Milton Ruiz , Stuart L. Shapiro , Marc Favata , Matthew Karlson , Fabrizio Venturi Piñas

A universal contribution exists in the infrared (low frequency) regime of all gravitational waves, which results from nonlinear memory. Nonlinear memory is sourced by linear order gravitational waves and exists for any gravitational-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-12 Caner Ünal , Doğa Veske

We study the motion of a gyroscope located far away from an isolated gravitational source in an asymptotically flat spacetime. As seen from a local frame tied to distant stars, the gyroscope precesses when gravitational waves cross its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-10 Ali Seraj , Blagoje Oblak

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 wave astronomy has opened an unprecedented window onto tests of gravity and fundamental physics in the strong-field regime. In this study, we examine a series of well-motivated deviations from the classical Kerr solution of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-07 Zhe Zhao , Swarnim Shashank , Debtroy Das , Cosimo Bambi
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