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This paper explores time-varying black holes within the framework of the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory with two scalar fields, examining the propagation of gravitational waves (GW). In reconstructed models, ghosts frequently emerge but can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-06 G. G. L. Nashed

We discuss the emission of gravitational radiation produced in encounters of dark matter galactic halos. To this aim we perform a number of numerical simulations of typical galaxy mergers, computing the associated gravitational radiation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-19 V. Quilis , A. C. González-García , D. Sáez , J. A. Font

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

The grand challenges of contemporary fundamental physics---dark matter, dark energy, vacuum energy, inflation and early universe cosmology, singularities and the hierarchy problem---all involve gravity as a key component. And of all…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-17 Leor Barack , Vitor Cardoso , Samaya Nissanke , Thomas P. Sotiriou , Abbas Askar , Krzysztof Belczynski , Gianfranco Bertone , Edi Bon , Diego Blas , Richard Brito , Tomasz Bulik , Clare Burrage , Christian T. Byrnes , Chiara Caprini , Masha Chernyakova , Piotr Chrusciel , Monica Colpi , Valeria Ferrari , Daniele Gaggero , Jonathan Gair , Juan Garcia-Bellido , S. F. Hassan , Lavinia Heisenberg , Martin Hendry , Ik Siong Heng , Carlos Herdeiro , Tanja Hinderer , Assaf Horesh , Bradley J. Kavanagh , Bence Kocsis , Michael Kramer , Alexandre Le Tiec , Chiara Mingarelli , Germano Nardini , Gijs Nelemans , Carlos Palenzuela , Paolo Pani , Albino Perego , Edward K. Porter , Elena M. Rossi , Patricia Schmidt , Alberto Sesana , Ulrich Sperhake , Antonio Stamerra , Leo C. Stein , Nicola Tamanini , Thomas M. Tauris , L. Arturo Urena-Lopez , Frederic Vincent , Marta Volonteri , Barry Wardell , Norbert Wex , Kent Yagi , Tiziano Abdelsalhin , Miguel Angel Aloy , Pau Amaro-Seoane , Lorenzo Annulli , Manuel Arca-Sedda , Ibrahima Bah , Enrico Barausse , Elvis Barakovic , Robert Benkel , Charles L. Bennett , Laura Bernard , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Christopher P. L. Berry , Emanuele Berti , Miguel Bezares , Jose Juan Blanco-Pillado , Jose Luis Blazquez-Salcedo , Matteo Bonetti , Mateja Boskovic , Zeljka Bosnjak , Katja Bricman , Bernd Bruegmann , Pedro R. Capelo , Sante Carloni , Pablo Cerda-Duran , Christos Charmousis , Sylvain Chaty , Aurora Clerici , Andrew Coates , Marta Colleoni , Lucas G. Collodel , Geoffrey Compere , William Cook , Isabel Cordero-Carrion , Miguel Correia , Alvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz , Viktor G. Czinner , Kyriakos Destounis , Kostas Dialektopoulos , Daniela Doneva , Massimo Dotti , Amelia Drew , Christopher Eckner , James Edholm , Roberto Emparan , Recai Erdem , Miguel Ferreira , Pedro G. Ferreira , Andrew Finch , Jose A. Font , Nicola Franchini , Kwinten Fransen , Dmitry Gal'tsov , Apratim Ganguly , Davide Gerosa , Kostas Glampedakis , Andreja Gomboc , Ariel Goobar , Leonardo Gualtieri , Eduardo Guendelman , Francesco Haardt , Troels Harmark , Filip Hejda , Thomas Hertog , Seth Hopper , Sascha Husa , Nada Ihanec , Taishi Ikeda , Amruta Jaodand , Philippe Jetzer Xisco Jimenez-Forteza , Marc Kamionkowski , David E. Kaplan , Stelios Kazantzidis , Masashi Kimura , Shiho Kobayashi , Kostas Kokkotas , Julian Krolik , Jutta Kunz , Claus Lammerzahl , Paul Lasky , Jose P. S. Lemos , Jackson Levi Said , Stefano Liberati , Jorge Lopes , Raimon Luna , Yin-Zhe Ma , Elisa Maggio , Marina Martinez Montero , Andrea Maselli , Lucio Mayer , Anupam Mazumdar , Christopher Messenger , Brice Menard , Masato Minamitsuji , Christopher J. Moore , David Mota , Sourabh Nampalliwar , Andrea Nerozzi , David Nichols , Emil Nissimov , Martin Obergaulinger , Niels A. Obers , Roberto Oliveri , George Pappas , Vedad Pasic , Hiranya Peiris , Tanja Petrushevska , Denis Pollney , Geraint Pratten , Nemanja Rakic , Istvan Racz , Miren Radia , Fethi M. Ramazanouglu , Antoni Ramos-Buades , Guilherme Raposo , Roxana Rosca-Mead , Marek Rogatko , Dorota Rosinska , Stephan Rosswog , Ester Ruiz Morales , Mairi Sakellariadou , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Om Sharan Salafia , Anuradha Samajdar , Alicia Sintes , Majda Smole , Carlos Sopuerta , Rafael Souza-Lima , Marko Stalevski , Nikolaos Stergioulas , Chris Stevens , Tomas Tamfal , Alejandro Torres-Forne , Sergey Tsygankov , Kivanc Unluturk , Rosa Valiante , Maarten van de Meent , Jose Velhinho , Yosef Verbin , Bert Vercnocke , Daniele Vernieri , Rodrigo Vicente , Vincenzo Vitagliano , Amanda Weltman , Bernard Whiting , Andrew Williamson , Helvi Witek , Aneta Wojnar , Kadri Yakut , Haopeng Yan , Stoycho Yazadjiev , Gabrijela Zaharijas , Miguel Zilhao

Several scenarios were suggested for the origins of gravitational-wave (GW) sources from mergers of stellar binary black holes (BBHs). Here we propose a novel origin through catalyzed formation of GW-sources from ultra-wide binaries in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Erez Michaely , Hagai B. Perets

This paper reviews gravitational wave sources and their detection. One of the most exciting potential sources of gravitational waves are coalescing binary black hole systems. They can occur on all mass scales and be formed in numerous ways,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-19 Hyung Mok Lee , Eric-Olivier Le Bigot , ZhiHui Du , ZhangXi Lin , XiangYu Guo , LinQing Wen , Khun Sang Phukon , Vihan Pandey , Sukanta Bose , Xi-Long Fan , Martin Hendry

We present a fast and versatile method to calculate the characteristic spectrum $h_c$ of the gravitational wave background (GWB) emitted by a population of eccentric massive black hole binaries (MBHBs). We fit the spectrum of a reference…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-12 Siyuan Chen , Alberto Sesana , Walter Del Pozzo

The energy spectrum of gravitational waves (GWs), which depicts the energy of GWs per unit volume of space per logarithmic frequency interval normalized to the critical density of the Universe, is a widely used way for quantifying the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-15 Rong-Gen Cai , Xing-Yu Yang , Long Zhao

Gravitational waves (GWs) at ultra-low frequencies (${\lesssim 100\,\mathrm{nHz}}$) are key to understanding the assembly and evolution of astrophysical black hole (BH) binaries with masses $\sim 10^{6}-10^{9}\,M_\odot$ at low redshifts.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-26 Christopher J. Moore , Alberto Vecchio

We study the properties of the outgoing gravitational wave produced when a non-spinning black hole is excited by an ingoing gravitational wave. Simulations using a numerical code for solving Einstein's equations allow the study to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Yosef Zlochower , Roberto Gomez , Sascha Husa , Luis Lehner , Jeffrey Winicour

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals are crucial sources for future space-based gravitational wave detections. Gravitational waveforms emitted by extreme mass-ratio inspirals are closely related to the orbital dynamics of small celestial objects,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-08 Sen Yang , Yu-Peng Zhang , Tao Zhu , Li Zhao , Yu-Xiao Liu

To obtain the waveform template of gravitational waves (GWs), substantial computational resources and exceedingly high precision are often required. In the previous study [JCAP 11 (2023) 070], we efficiently and accurately calculate GW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-25 Changkai Chen , Jiliang Jing

Globular clusters (GCs) are crucial for studying stellar dynamics and galactic structure, yet precise measurements of their distances and masses are often limited by uncertainties in electromagnetic (EM) observations. We present a novel…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-07 Jie Wu , Yao Xiao , Mengfei Sun , Jin Li

If a set of massive objects collide in space and the fragments disperse, possibly forming black holes, then this process will emit gravitational waves. Computing the detailed gravitational wave-form associated with this process is a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-24 Ashoke Sen

We study the gravitational wave (GW) signal sourced by primordial turbulence that is assumed to be present at cosmological phase transitions like the electroweak and quantum chromodynamics phase transitions. We consider various models of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-28 Axel Brandenburg , Grigol Gogoberidze , Tina Kahniashvili , Sayan Mandal , Alberto Roper Pol , Nakul Shenoy

We investigate the propagation of gravitational waves on a black hole background within the low energy effective field theory of gravity, where effects from heavy fields are captured by higher dimensional curvature operators. Depending on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-05 Claudia de Rham , Jérémie Francfort , Jun Zhang

Detection of gravitational waves (GWs) paves the beginning of a new era of gravitational wave astronomy. Black holes (BHs) in their ringdown phase provide the cleanest signal of emitted GWs that imprint the fundamental nature of BHs under…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-28 Rajesh Karmakar , Debaprasad Maity

Dark matter (DM) can form dense condensates around black holes (BHs), such as superradiant clouds and ultracompact mini halos, which can significantly affect the orbital evolution of their companion objects through dynamical friction (DF).…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-22 Qianhang Ding , Minxi He , Hui-Yu Zhu

Gravitational waves (GW) can constitute a unique probe of the primordial universe. In many cases, the characteristic frequency of the emitted GW is directly related to the energy scale at which the GW source is operating in the early…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Chiara Caprini

Gravitational waves are rapidly becoming a very reliable tool for testing alternative theories of gravity. In particular, features in the gravitational wave emission during black hole ringdown phase provide a direct probe of the spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Ruifeng Dong , Dejan Stojkovic