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Observations of a merging neutron star binary in both gravitational waves, by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), and across the spectrum of electromagnetic radiation, by myriad telescopes, have been used to show…

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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

The conventional gravitational memory effect is a relative displacement in the position of two detectors induced by radiative energy flux. We find a new type of gravitational `spin memory' in which beams on clockwise and counterclockwise…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 Sabrina Pasterski , Andrew Strominger , Alexander Zhiboedov

Utilizing recent mathematical advances in proving stability of Minkowski spacetime with minimal decay rates and nonlinear stability of Kerr black holes with small angular momentum, we investigate the detailed asymptotic behaviors of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-11 Xinliang An , Taoran He , Dawei Shen

A central challenge in probing the quantum nature of gravity is to distinguish effects that are genuinely quantum from those that can be explained classically. In this work, we study how quantized gravitational waves interact with thermal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-14 Mainak Dutta , Partha Nandi , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

We combine different techniques to extract information about the logarithmic contributions to the two-body conservative dynamics within the post-Newtonian (PN) approximation of General Relativity. The logarithms come from the conservative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-09 Luc Blanchet , Stefano Foffa , François Larrouturou , Riccardo Sturani

In this paper, we investigate gravitational waves beyond the linear approximation, focusing on second-order contributions sourced by linearized waves in the transverse-traceless (TT) gauge. A general spacetime metric is constructed, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-06 M. A. Misyura

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

Gravitational-wave memory is a non-linear effect predicted by general relativity that remains undetected. We apply a Bayesian analysis framework to search for gravitational-wave memory using binary black hole mergers in LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-19 Shun Yin Cheung , Paul D. Lasky , Eric Thrane

This paper investigates the non-linear self-interaction of quadrupole gravitational waves generated by an isolated system. The vacuum Einstein field equations are integrated in the region exterior to the system by means of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Luc Blanchet

Non radial oscillations of neutron stars are associated with the emission of gravitational waves. The characteristic frequencies of these oscillations can be computed using the theory of stellar perturbations, and they are shown to carry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-10 Valeria Ferrari

In the observation of gravitational waves (GWs) from a compact binary coalescence system where the mass of one of the companions is $\leq 5~M_{\odot}$ the nature of the object is ambiguous until the measurements of tidal effects give…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-20 Shubhanshu Tiwari , Michael Ebersold , Eleanor Z. Hamilton

We discuss the quantum mechanical description of a gravitational wave interacting with a cavity electromagnetic field. Quantum fluctuations of the gravitational vacuum induce squeezing in the optical field. Moreover, this squeezing…

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The last decade has seen a significant increase in the number of studies devoted to wave turbulence. Many deal with water waves, as modeling of ocean waves has historically motivated the development of weak turbulence theory, which adresses…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-09 Eric Falcon , Nicolas Mordant

Particles initially at rest hit by a passing sandwich gravitational wave exhibit, in general, thevelocity memory effect (VM): they fly apart with constant velocity. For specific values of the wave parameters their motion can however become…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-14 P. -M. Zhang , P. A. Horvathy

We study the effect of cubic and tidal interactions on the spectrum of gravitational waves emitted in the inspiral phase of the merger of two non-spinning objects. There are two independent parity-even cubic interaction terms, which we take…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-03 Manuel Accettulli Huber , Andreas Brandhuber , Stefano De Angelis , Gabriele Travaglini

Largely motivated by the development of highly sensitive gravitational-wave detectors, our understanding of merging compact binaries and the gravitational waves they generate has improved dramatically in recent years. Breakthroughs in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 Scott A. Hughes

The paper gives an introduction to the gravitational radiation theory of isolated sources and to the propagation properties of light rays in radiative gravitational fields. It presents a theoretical study of the generation, propagation,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-07 Luc Blanchet , Sergei Kopeikin , Gerhard Schäfer

Waveforms are classical observables associated with any radiative physical process. Using scattering amplitudes, these are usually computed in a weak-field regime to some finite order in the post-Newtonian or post-Minkowskian approximation.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-19 Tim Adamo , Andrea Cristofoli , Anton Ilderton , Sonja Klisch

In addition to the usual linear gravitational waves in transverse-traceless coordinates, higher-order gravitational field equations, as well as their corresponding solutions, are explicitly obtained. It is found that higher-order waves do…

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