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Gravitational wave memory is an important prediction of general relativity, which has not been detected yet. Amounts of memory events can form a stochastic gravitational wave memory background. Here we find that memory background can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-12 Zhi-Chao Zhao , Zhoujian Cao

Gravitational waves (GWs) offer a new observational window into the universe, providing insights into compact objects and cosmic structures. Gravitational lensing, commonly studied in electromagnetic waves, also affects GWs, introducing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-25 Xing-Yu Yang , Tan Chen , Rong-Gen Cai

Impulsive gravitational waves are theoretical models of short but violent bursts of gravitational radiation. They are commonly described by two distinct spacetime metrics, one of local Lipschitz regularity, the other one even…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-26 Clemens Sämann , Benedict Schinnerl , Roland Steinbauer , Robert Švarc

The modeling of gravitational wave ringdown has traditionally relied on linear perturbation theory, which mainly describes the late-time behavior of a perturbed black hole after a binary merger. However, the need for more accurate ringdown…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-03 Macarena Lagos

Impulsive gravitational plane waves, which have a delta-function singularity on a hypersurface, can be obtained by squeezing smooth plane gravitational waves with Gaussian profile. They exhibit (as do their smooth counterparts) the Velocity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-14 P. -M. Zhang , C. Duval , P. A. Horvathy

We investigate the response of a model gravitational wave detector consisting of two particles to the quantized cylindrical gravitational waves and obtain a relation between the standard deviation of the distance between two particles and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-30 Feifan He , Baocheng Zhang

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 (GW) memory, a permanent distortion of the space-time metric, is anticipated during the acceleration of relativistic jets in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). While the precise mechanism behind GRBs is not yet fully understood,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-23 Yusuke Sakai , Ryo Yamazaki , Yoshihiro Okutani , Satsuki Ueno , Norichika Sago , Marco Meyer-Conde , Hirotaka Takahashi

Astrometric observations can, in principle, be used to detect gravitational waves. In this paper we give a practical overview of the gravitational wave effects which can be expected specifically in small-field astrometric data. Particular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-12 Robin Geyer , Sven Zschocke , Michael Soffel , Sergei Klioner , Lennart Lindegren , Uwe Lammers

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

Primordial gravitational waves, after they enter the horizon and decay away, leave a residual displacement in test particles: a memory, in analogy with gravitational waves generated by astrophysical sources. The late-time distance between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-17 Paolo Creminelli , Filippo Vernizzi

With the multitude of gravitational wave observations that have been made in the past ten years, probing the dynamical and nonlinear nature of strong gravity is becoming more and more feasible. One promising way to test the nonlinear nature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-28 Keefe Mitman , Maximiliano Isi , Will M. Farr

Gravitational waves (GWs) are direct probes of cosmological gravity, sensitive to space-time inhomogeneities along their propagation. The presence of massive objects breaks homogeneity and isotropy, allowing for new interactions between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-12 Nicola Menadeo , Serena Giardino , Miguel Zumalacárregui

Based on the relationship between proper distance and coordinate distance, the geometrical phenomenon caused by the passing gravitational waves can not be observed locally. The electromagnetic wave equations in the background gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-13 Wenyu Wang , Yang Xu

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

Several assumptions at the foundation of the standard cosmological model have as a direct consequence a specific relation between cosmological distances, known as the distance duality relation, whose violation would be a smoking gun of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-06 Chiara De Leo , Matteo Martinelli , Rocco D'Agostino , Giulia Gianfagna , Carlos J. A. P. Martins

We investigate new optical effects of nonlinear gravitational waves that arise from hereditary effects. Firstly, we show that the amplitude of continuous plane waves has a hereditary effect that grows with distance. This can make the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 Yu-Qiang Liu , Yu-Qi Dong , Yu-Xiao Liu

General relativity describes gravitation in terms of the geometry of spacetime. It predicts the existence of gravitational waves (GWs) that stretch and compress spacetime and were detected recently by state-of-the-art interferometer…

Popular Physics · Physics 2022-12-01 Hayato Motohashi , Teruaki Suyama

In this study, we investigate the role of the non-linear memory effect in gravitational wave (GW) parameter estimation, particularly we explore its capability to break the degeneracy between luminosity distance and inclination angle in…

Gravitational waves, although generally associated with extremely microscopic effects, can displace by hundreds of kilometers the pulsar interstellar scintillation patterns that bathe the Earth. The combination of the pulsar and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Redouane Fakir