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The tidal Love numbers (TLNs) encode the deformability of a self-gravitating object immersed in a tidal environment and depend significantly both on the object's internal structure and on the dynamics of the gravitational field. An…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-13 Vitor Cardoso , Edgardo Franzin , Andrea Maselli , Paolo Pani , Guilherme Raposo

Tidal Love numbers (TLNs) characterize the response of compact objects to external tidal fields and vanish for classical Schwarzschild and Kerr black holes in general relativity. Nonvanishing TLNs therefore provide a potential observational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-15 Rui Wang , Qi-Long Shi , Wei Xiong , Peng-Cheng Li

The tidal response of compact objects provides a powerful probe of their internal structure and of the surrounding gravitational field. We provide a comprehensive and unified overview of tidal effects in black holes, neutron stars, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-13 Sumanta Chakraborty , Paolo Pani

The Love numbers of a gravitating body are response coefficients encoding its tidal deformability. In compact binary systems, they appear in the gravitational waveform during the inspiral phase and will be measurable by upcoming…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-13 María J. Rodríguez , Luca Santoni , Adam R. Solomon

We study the tidal deformability of horizonless exotic compact objects, with implications for area quantized black holes. Since, any such horizonless compact object, including area quantized black hole, possesses a non-zero reflectivity, it…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-05 Sreejith Nair , Sumanta Chakraborty , Sudipta Sarkar

The tidal deformability is a key observable to test the nature of compact objects in a binary coalescence. Within vacuum General Relativity, the tidal Love numbers of a four-dimensional black hole are strictly zero, while they are non-zero…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-26 Michela Silvestrini , Elisa Maggio , Sumanta Chakraborty , Paolo Pani

While static Love number vanish identically for Kerr black holes, we show that the corresponding dynamical tidal coefficients are generically non-zero and exhibit logarithmic behavior. The computational method employs a related but simpler…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-06 Malcolm Perry , Maria J. Rodriguez

The deformability of a compact object induced by a perturbing tidal field is encoded in the tidal Love numbers, which depend sensibly on the object's internal structure. These numbers are known only for static, spherically-symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-01 Paolo Pani , Leonardo Gualtieri , Andrea Maselli , Valeria Ferrari

We derive the response, the real part of which provides the tidal Love numbers, for non-extremal as well as extremal Kerr black holes under generic tidal perturbations. Our results suggest that the static as well as dynamical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-30 Rajendra Prasad Bhatt , Sumanta Chakraborty , Sukanta Bose

The foundation for modeling the coupling of the internal structure of compact objects in binary systems to their dynamics and emitted gravitational waves is a systematic effective field theory (EFT) framework, where each compact object is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-04 Sumanta Chakraborty , M. V. S Saketh , Tanja Hinderer , Jan Steinhoff

The open question of whether a black hole can become tidally deformed by an external gravitational field has profound implications for fundamental physics, astrophysics and gravitational-wave astronomy. Love tensors characterize the tidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-02 Alexandre Le Tiec , Marc Casals

In General Relativity, the static tidal Love numbers of black holes vanish identically. Whether this remains true for time-dependent tidal fields -- i.e., in the case of dynamical tidal Love numbers -- is an open question, complicated by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-03 Sumanta Chakraborty , Valerio De Luca , Leonardo Gualtieri , Paolo Pani

The tidal response of compact objects in an inspiraling binary system is measured by a set of tidal Love and dissipation numbers imprinted in the gravitational waveforms. While a four-dimensional black hole in vacuum within General…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-15 Takuya Katagiri , Hiroyuki Nakano , Kazuyuki Omukai

As a possible alternative to black holes, horizonless compact objects have significant implications for gravitational-wave physics. In this work, we utilize the standard linearized theory of general relativity to calculate the quadrupolar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-08 Rui-Xin Yang , Fei Xie , Dao-Jun Liu

It was shown recently that the static tidal response coefficients, called Love numbers, vanish identically for Kerr black holes in four dimensions. In this work, we confirm this result and extend it to the case of spin-0 and spin-1…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-26 Panagiotis Charalambous , Sergei Dubovsky , Mikhail M. Ivanov

The tidal Love numbers of self-gravitating compact objects describe their response to external tidal perturbations, such as those from a companion in a binary system, offering valuable insights into their internal structure. For static…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-13 Enrico Cannizzaro , Valerio De Luca , Paolo Pani

We show that rotating black holes do not experience any tidal deformation when they are perturbed by a weak and adiabatic gravitational field. The tidal deformability of an object is quantified by the so-called "Love numbers", which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-14 Horng Sheng Chia

We study static tidal Love numbers (TLNs) of a static and spherically symmetric black hole for odd-parity metric perturbations. We describe black hole perturbations using the effective field theory (EFT), formulated on an arbitrary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-04 Chams Gharib Ali Barura , Hajime Kobayashi , Shinji Mukohyama , Naritaka Oshita , Kazufumi Takahashi , Vicharit Yingcharoenrat

Tidal Love numbers quantify the conservative static response of compact objects to external tidal fields, and are found to vanish exactly for asymptotically flat black holes in four-dimensional general relativity. Many aspects of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-17 Valerio De Luca , Brandon Khek , Justin Khoury , Mark Trodden

The open question of whether a Kerr black hole can become tidally deformed or not has profound implications for fundamental physics and gravitational-wave astronomy. We consider a Kerr black hole embedded in a weak and slowly varying, but…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-15 Alexandre Le Tiec , Marc Casals , Edgardo Franzin
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