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The deformability of a compact object under the presence of a tidal perturbation is encoded in the tidal Love numbers (TLNs), which vanish for isolated black holes in vacuum. We show that the TLNs of black holes surrounded by matter fields…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-25 V. De Luca , P. Pani

We find the dynamical tidal response of a Kerr black hole (BH) and demonstrate its tidal Love numbers to be non-vanishing when present in a non-axisymmetric external tidal field. To leading order, they depend quadratically on the black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-27 Rajendra Prasad Bhatt , Sumanta Chakraborty , Sukanta Bose

We investigate the tidal response of Kerr black holes in four-dimensional space-times subjected to external gravitational fields. Using the Ernst formalism and Weyl coordinates, we analyze the non-linear tidal deformation of rotating black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-12 L. -R. Gounis , A. Kehagias , A. Riotto

The tidal deformation of compact objects, characterised by their Love numbers, provides insights into the internal structure of neutron stars and black holes. While static bosonic tidal Love numbers vanish for black holes in general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-15 Xiankai Pang , Yu Tian , Hongbao Zhang , Qingquan Jiang

We investigate the linear static response of three covariant loop quantum black holes, namely, the two models proposed by Zhang, Lewandowski, Ma, and Yang (ZLMY) and the Alonso-Bardaji, Brizuela, and Vera (ABV) model, to an external tidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-22 Meysam Motaharfar , Parampreet Singh

The response of astrophysical compact objects to external tidal fields carries valuable information on the nature of these objects, on the equation of state of matter, and on the underlying gravitational theory. In this work, we highlight…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-23 Takuya Katagiri , Kent Yagi , Vitor Cardoso

Tidal Love numbers describe the linear response of a compact object under the presence of external tidal perturbations, and they are found to vanish exactly for black holes within General Relativity. In this paper we investigate the tidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-02 Valerio De Luca , Justin Khoury , Sam S. C. Wong

Tidal Love numbers characterize the conservative, static response of compact objects to external tidal fields. Remarkably, these quantities vanish identically for asymptotically flat black holes in four-dimensional general relativity. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-29 Valerio De Luca , Brandon Khek , Justin Khoury , Mark Trodden

We apply the point particle EFT approach to a compact star to systematically compute dynamical tidal love numbers for various non-rotating compact objects, extending the treatment of {arXiv:2307.10391[hep-th], arXiv:2407.08327 [gr-qc]}. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-16 Gregory Jarequi , Soumodeep Mitra , Varun Vaidya

We match scattering amplitudes in point particle effective field theory (EFT) and general relativity to extract low frequency dynamical tidal responses of rotating (Kerr) black holes to all orders in spin. In the conservative sector, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-29 M. V. S. Saketh , Zihan Zhou , Mikhail M. Ivanov

We present an analytic method for calculating the tidal response function of a nonrotating and a slowly rotating black hole from the Teukolsky equation in the small-frequency and near horizon limit. We point out that in the relativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-12 Rajendra Prasad Bhatt , Sumanta Chakraborty , Sukanta Bose

We perform a detailed study of the gravitational tidal Love numbers of extremal zero-temperature Kerr black holes. These coefficients are finite and exhibit the dissipative nature of these maximally spinning black holes. Upon considering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-30 Malcolm Perry , Maria J. Rodriguez

Dynamical Love numbers capture the conservative response of an object to a time-dependent external tidal gravitational field. We compute the dynamical Love numbers of Schwarzschild black holes in general relativity within a point-particle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-19 Oscar Combaluzier--Szteinsznaider , Daniel Glazer , Austin Joyce , Maria J. Rodriguez , Luca Santoni

We develop approximate ``analytic-kludge" waveforms to describe the inspiral of a stellar-mass compact object into a supermassive compact object in an extreme mass ratio inspiral (EMRI) scenario. The deformability of the supermassive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-22 Tieguang Zi , Peng-Cheng Li

We investigate the tidal response of general five-dimensional (5D) black holes of STU supergravity, which include as special cases important solutions such as the Myers-Perry, BMPV, 5D Reissner-Nordstr\"om, Kerr-Newman and dyonic black…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-29 M. Cvetič , M. A. Liao , M. M Stetsko

In this note, we analyze black holes solutions under R3 corrections, which is the leading correction induced by quantum corrections in four-dimensions. We showed that perturbations around this black hole background will lead to non-zero…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-18 Shengsheng Cai , Kai-Der Wang

The tidal deformability of compact objects by a companion has a detectable imprint in the gravitational waves emitted by a binary system. This effect is governed by the so-called tidal Love numbers. For a particular theory of gravity, these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-25 Vitor Cardoso , Francisco Duque

We discuss the linear response to low-frequency tidal forcing of fluid bodies that are slowly and uniformly rotating, are neutrally stratified and may contain a solid or fluid core. This problem may be regarded as a simplified model of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Gordon I. Ogilvie

It is well established that black holes in four-dimensional, vacuum, general relativity exhibit vanishing static tidal Love numbers, indicating no multipolar response to the external tidal fields in the static limit. This intriguing feature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-09 Chiranjeeb Singha , Sumanta Chakraborty

In Newtonian gravitational theory, a tidal Love number relates the mass multipole moment created by tidal forces on a spherical body to the applied tidal field. The Love number is dimensionless, and it encodes information about the body's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-29 Taylor Binnington , Eric Poisson