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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

In a suitably chosen essentially unique frame tied to a given observer in a general spacetime, the equation of geodesic deviation can be decomposed into a sum of terms describing specific effects: isotropic (background) motions associated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Bicak , J. Podolsky

General relativity explains gravitational radiation from binary black hole or neutron star mergers, from core-collapse supernovae and even from the inflation period in cosmology. These waves exhibit a unique effect called memory or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-21 Lydia Bieri , David Garfinkle , Shing-Tung Yau

Gravitational shockwaves produce perturbations of field systems. We study classical scalar and electromagnetic fields and gravitational memory effects left after the action on the fields of plane-fronted gravitational shockwaves. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-28 Dmitri V. Fursaev

Gravitational-wave (GW) memory effects produce permanent shifts in the GW strain and its time integrals after the passage of a burst of GWs. Their presence is closely tied to symmetries of asymptotically flat spacetimes and fluxes of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 Shammi Tahura , David A. Nichols , Kent Yagi

The response of laser interferometers to gravitational waves has been calculated in a number of different ways, particularly in the transverse-traceless and the local Lorentz gauges. At first sight, it would appear that these calculations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 Malik Rakhmanov

Despite growing interest, there is a scarcity of known predictions in the regime where both quantum and general relativistic effects become observable. Here, we investigate a combined atom-field system in a curved spacetime, with a specific…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Jerzy Paczos , Navdeep Arya , Sofia Qvarfort , Daniel Braun , Magdalena Zych

The article deals with photon propagation in pp-wave spacetimes in the strong gravitational-wave regime and its consequences for redshift measurements. We show that null geodesics crossing a localized pp-wave pulse exhibit an energy memory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-15 F. L. Carneiro , S. C. Ulhoa , J. W. Maluf

Gravitational memory is a zero-frequency effect associated with a permanent change in the asymptotic spacetime metric induced by radiation. Although its universal manifestation is a net change in the proper distances between freely falling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-06 Jann Zosso , Lorena Magaña Zertuche , Silvia Gasparotto , Adrien Cogez , Henri Inchauspé , Milo Jacobs

Gravitational lensing by gravitational wave is considered. We notice that although final and initial direction of photons coincide, displacement between final and initial trajectories occurs. This displacement is calculated analytically for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-31 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , O. Yu. Tsupko

We study how a charged particle moving in a uniform magnetic field along its standard circular path (cyclotron motion) reacts to a short-duration, homogeneous, uniform electric field pulse injected in the plane perpendicular to the magnetic…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-02-27 Sayan Kar

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

Gravitational-wave memory effects are identified by their distinctive effects on families of freely falling observers: after a burst of waves pass by their locations, memory effects can cause lasting relative displacements of the observers.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-07 Shammi Tahura , David A. Nichols , Alexander Saffer , Leo C. Stein , Kent Yagi

It is pointed out that if gravitational interactions among ordinary bodies propagate in extra space-time dimensions the velocity of gravitational waves in vacuum could be different from the speed of light $c$.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Vicente Pleitez

A new category of "intrinsic" effects is proposed to be added to the two already known kinematic and dynamical categories. An example of intrinsic effect is predicted, its origin source is established, and a scheme of its experimental…

General Physics · Physics 2010-04-02 Nikolai V. Mitskievich

Linear and rotational dragging effects of gravitational waves on local inertial frames are studied in purely vacuum spacetimes. First the linear dragging caused by a simple cylindrical pulse is investigated. Surprisingly strong transversal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Jiri Bicak , Joseph Katz , Donald Lynden-Bell

We perform a comprehensive analysis of state-of-the-art waveform models, focusing on their predictions concerning kick velocity and inferred gravitational wave memory. In our investigation we assess the accuracy of waveform models using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-01 Fabio D'Ambrosio , Francesco Gozzini , Lavinia Heisenberg , Henri Inchauspé , David Maibach , Jann Zosso

Pure gravitational plane waves are considered as a special case of spacetimes with two commuting spacelike Killing vector fields. Starting with a midisuperspace that describes this kind of spacetimes, we introduce gauge-fixing and symmetry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Guillermo A. Mena Marugan , Manuel Montejo

Anisotropic bursts of gravitational radiation produced by events such as super-massive black hole mergers leave permanent imprints on space. Such gravitational wave "memory" (GWM) signals are, in principle, detectable through pulsar timing…

Gravitational-wave memory manifests as a permanent distortion of an idealized gravitational-wave detector and arises generically from energetic astrophysical events. For example, binary black hole mergers are expected to emit memory bursts…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-10 Lucy O. McNeill , Eric Thrane , Paul D. Lasky