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We present the first computation of the nonlinear gravitational memory waveform for the scattering of two compact objects in General Relativity at leading order in the post-Minkowskian expansion. We use the scattering-amplitudes-based…

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We introduce a novel framework to study high-order gravitational effects on a binary from the scattering of its emitted gravitational radiation. Here we focus on the radiation-reaction due to the background of the binary's gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-29 Alex Edison , Michèle Levi

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-wave memory refers to the permanent displacement of the test masses in an idealized (freely-falling) gravitational-wave interferometer. Inspiraling binaries produce a particularly interesting form of memory--the Christodoulou…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Marc Favata

A new hierarchy of lasting gravitational-wave effects (the higher memory effects) was recently identified in asymptotically flat spacetimes, with the better-known displacement, spin, and center-of-mass memory effects included as the lowest…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 Siddhant Siddhant , Alexander M. Grant , David A. Nichols

We compute tail contributions to the conservative dynamics of a generic self-gravitating system, for every multipole order, of either electric and magnetic parity. Such contributions arise when gravitational radiation is backscattered by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-12 Gabriel Luz Almeida , Stefano Foffa , Riccardo Sturani

A gravitational wave must be nonlinear to be able to transport its own source, that is, energy and momentum. A physical gravitational wave, therefore, cannot be represented by a solution to a linear wave equation. Relying on this property,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-02 R. Aldrovandi , J. G. Pereira , Roldao da Rocha , K. H. Vu

Circularly polarized gravitational sandwich waves exhibit, as do their linearly polarized counterparts, the Velocity Memory Effect: freely falling test particles in the flat after-zone fly apart along straight lines with constant velocity.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-23 P. -M. Zhang , C. Duval , G. W. Gibbons , P. A. Horvathy

We derive the leading spin-dependent gravitational tail memory, which appears at the second post-Minkowskian (2 PM) order and behaves as $u^{-2}$ for large retarded time $u$. This result follows from classical soft graviton theorem at order…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-09 Debodirna Ghosh , Biswajit Sahoo

It is well known that energy fluxes will produce gravitational wave memory. The gravitational wave memory produced by background including cosmic microwave background (CMB), cosmic neutrino background (C$\nu$B), and gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-01 Zhoujian Cao , Xiaokai He , Zhi-Chao Zhao

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

The memory effect in gravitational wave (GW) signals is the phenomenon, wherein the relative position of two inertial GW detectors undergoes a permanent displacement owing to the passage of GWs through them. Measurement of the memory signal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-17 Arpan Hait , Subhendra Mohanty , Suraj Prakash

We compute the effect of scattering gravitational radiation off the static background curvature, up to second order in Newton constant, known in literature as tail and tail-of-tail processes, for generic electric and magnetic multipoles.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-26 Gabriel Luz Almeida , Stefano Foffa , Riccardo Sturani

Gravitational memory, a residual change, arises after a finite gravitational wave pulse interacts with free masses. We calculate the memory effect in massive gravity as a function of the graviton mass $(m_g)$ and show that it is discretely…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-07 Ercan Kilicarslan , Bayram Tekin

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

We present an alternative method for constructing the exact and approximate solutions of electromagnetic wave equations whose source terms are arbitrary order multipoles on a curved spacetime. The developed method is based on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Mankin , T. Laas , R. Tammelo

We discuss in some detail the interaction of classical particles, including the scattering and memory effect, with a pulse of gravitational plane wave. The key point is the conformal symmetry of gravitational plane waves. In particular, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-26 K. Andrzejewski , S. Prencel

Gravitational-wave (GW) memory effects produce permanent shifts in the GW strain and its time integrals after the passage of a burst of GWs. Their presence is closely tied to symmetries of asymptotically flat spacetimes and fluxes of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 Shammi Tahura , David A. Nichols , Kent Yagi

Wave propagation of field disturbances is ubiquitous. The electromagnetic and gravitational are cousin theories in which the corresponding waves play a relevant role to understand several related physical. It has been established that small…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-22 W. Barreto , H. P. de Oliveira , E. L. Rodrigues

We present an electromagnetic analog of gravitational wave memory. That is, we consider what change has occurred to a detector of electromagnetic radiation after the wave has passed. Rather than a distortion in the detector, as occurs in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Lydia Bieri , David Garfinkle