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We consider a scenario with axions/axion-like particles Chern-Simons gravity coupling, such that gravitational waves can be produced directly from axion wave parametric resonance in the early universe after inflation. This axion gravity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-09 Mingqiu Li , Sichun Sun , Qi-Shu Yan , Zhijie Zhao

Future space-borne gravitational-wave detectors will observe the gravitational waves in the milli-Hz. Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals with central supermassive black holes are very important sources that could provide the information of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-31 Yu-Peng Zhang , Yan-Bo Zeng , Yong-Qiang Wang , Shao-Wen Wei , Pau Amaro Seoane , Yu-Xiao Liu

The phase evolution of gravitational waves (GWs) can be modulated by the astrophysical environment surrounding the source, which provides a probe for the origin of individual binary black holes (BBHs) using GWs alone. We here study the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-27 Kai Hendriks , Dany Atallah , Miguel Martinez , Michael Zevin , Lorenz Zwick , Alessandro A. Trani , Pankaj Saini , János Takátsy , Johan Samsing

Gravitational waves open the possibility to investigate the nature of compact objects and probe the horizons of black holes. Some models of modified gravity predict the presence of horizonless and singularity-free compact objects. Such dark…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-12 Elisa Maggio

Black holes are the most compact objects in the Universe. According to general relativity, black holes have a horizon that hides a singularity where Einstein's theory breaks down. Recently, gravitational waves opened the possibility to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-01 Elisa Maggio

Ultralight boson clouds can form around black holes in binaries through superradiance, and undergo resonant level transitions at certain orbit frequencies. In this work, we investigate the gravitational waves emitted by the clouds during…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-14 Si-Tong Peng , Jun Zhang

Quasi-periodic oscillations of high density thick accretion disks orbiting a Schwarzschild black hole have been recently addressed as interesting sources of gravitational waves. The aim of this paper is to compare the gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Alessandro Nagar , Jose A. Font , Olindo Zanotti , Roberto De Pietri

This paper reports results from numerical simulations of the gravitational radiation emitted from non--rotating compact objects(both neutron stars and Schwarzschild black holes) as a result of the accretion of matter. A hybrid procedure is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Alessandro Nagar , Guillermo Diaz , Jose A. Pons , Jose A. Font

Monochromatic high-frequency gravitational waves (HFGW) provide a distinctive probe of new physics scenarios, most notably axion clouds around rotating black holes formed via superradiance. We reanalyzed data from the CAPP-12T MC…

Gravitational waves emitted by distorted black holes, such as those arising from the coalescence of binary black holes, or a falling compact star into a supermassive black hole, carry not only information about the corresponding spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-10 Chao Zhang , Tao Zhu , Anzhong Wang

In the axiverse scenario, a massive scalar field (string axion) forms a cloud around a rotating black hole (BH) by superradiant instability and emits continuous gravitational waves (GWs). We examine constraints on the string axion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-02 Hirotaka Yoshino , Hideo Kodama

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

Black holes are superb sources of gravitational wave signals, for example when they are born in stellar collapse. We explore the subtleties that may emerge if mass accretion events increase significantly the mass of the black hole during…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Philippos Papadopoulos , Jose A. Font

This work investigates the echoes in axial gravitational perturbations in compact objects. To this end, we propose an alternative scheme of the finite difference method implemented in two coordinate systems, where the initial conditions are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-04 Kai Lin , Wei-Liang Qian

Ultralight bosons with self-interactions, such as axion-like particles, can form astrophysical Bose-Einstein condensates around stars or compact objects, often referred to as gravitational atoms. In this work, we adopt a recently proposed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Samuel Gómez Gómez , Xisco Jimenez Forteza , Carlos Palenzuela Luque

Traditionlly, gravitational wave emission from a coalescing binary system is computed using point mass approximations without considering any accretion disk. However, it is believed that in many of the galactic nuclei, there are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sandip K. Chakrabarti

We have numerically investigated close scattering processes of two black holes (BHs). Our careful analysis shows for the first time a non-merging ringdown gravitational wave coming from dynamical tidal deformations of individual BHs during…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-31 Yeong-Bok Bae , Young-Hwan Hyun , Gungwon Kang

We derive the gravitational waveform from the collapse of a rapidly rotating supermassive star (SMS) core leading directly to a seed of a supermassive black hole (SMBH) in axisymmetric numerical-relativity simulations. We find that the peak…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-03 Masaru Shibata , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Haruki Uchida , Hideyuki Umeda

Gravitational waves (GWs) provide a powerful probe of the early universe due to their ability to free-stream across cosmic history. We study GW production in a compelling scenario where a rotating axion(-like) field becomes relevant for a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-12 Arushi Bodas , Keisuke Harigaya , Keisuke Inomata , Takahiro Terada , Lian-Tao Wang

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