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We study the motion of a gyroscope located far away from an isolated gravitational source in an asymptotically flat spacetime. As seen from a local frame tied to distant stars, the gyroscope precesses when gravitational waves cross its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-10 Ali Seraj , Blagoje Oblak

Gravitational-wave memory, a strong-field effect of general relativity, manifests itself as a permanent displacement in spacetime. We develop a Bayesian framework to detect gravitational-wave memory with the Advanced LIGO/Virgo detector…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-29 Moritz Hübner , Colm Talbot , Paul D. Lasky , Eric Thrane

The memory effect of test particles interacting with pp-wave Gaussian pulses is investigated for polarization modes beyond the standard quadrupolar $+$ and $\times$ states. Massive geodesic equations are solved numerically for several…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-31 F. L. Carneiro , H. P. de Carvalho , M. P. Lobo , L. A. Cabral

In this short paper we investigate quantum gravitational effects on Einstein's equations using effective field theory techniques. We consider the leading order quantum gravitational correction to the wave equation. Besides the usual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Xavier Calmet , Iberê Kuntz , Sonali Mohapatra

Black bounces are spacetimes that can be interpreted as either black holes or wormholes depending on specific parameters. In this study, we examine the Simpson-Visser and Bardeen-type solutions as black bounces and investigate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-22 H. Hadi , R. Naderi

Gravitational-wave tails are linear waves that backscatter on the curvature of space-time generated by the total mass-energy of the source. The non-linear memory effect arises from gravitational waves sourced by the stress-energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-16 David Trestini , Luc Blanchet

We investigate the gravitational waves phenomena in the geometric scalar theory of gravity (GSG) that belongs to a class of theories such that gravity is described by a single scalar field. The associated physical metric describing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-16 J. D. Toniato , M. Novello

In General Relativity, the propagation of electromagnetic waves is usually described by the vacuum Maxwell's equations on a fixed curved background. In the limit of infinitely high frequencies, electromagnetic waves can be localized as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-23 Marius A. Oancea , Claudio F. Paganini , Jérémie Joudioux , Lars Andersson

The "memory effect" is the permanent change in the relative separation of test particles resulting from the passage of gravitational radiation. We investigate the memory effect for a general, spatially flat FLRW cosmology by considering the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-17 Alexander Tolish , Robert M. Wald

It is investigated the gravitational waves phenomena in the geometric scalar theory of gravity (GSG), a class of theories such that gravity is described by a single scalar field. The associated physical metric describing the spacetime is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-16 Júnior Diniz Toniato

We revisit the computation of the classical gravitational waveform for a particle moving in a plane wave background using on-shell amplitudes. We emphasize the relationship between gravitational memory and the boundary conditions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-02 Andrea Cristofoli , Sonja Klisch

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

Gravitational shockwaves are simple exact solutions of Einstein equations representing the fields of ultrarelativistic sources and idealized gravitational waves (shocks). Historically, much work has focused on shockwaves in the context of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-24 Finnian Gray , David Kubiznak , Taillte May , Sydney Timmerman , Erickson Tjoa

Gravitational waves are investigated in Intrinsic Time Geometrodynamics. This theory has a non-vanishing physical Hamiltonian generating intrinsic time development in our expanding universe, and four-covariance is explicitly broken by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-11 Eyo Eyo Ita , Chopin Soo , Hoi-Lai Yu

Particles initially at rest hit by a passing sandwich gravitational wave exhibit, in general, thevelocity memory effect (VM): they fly apart with constant velocity. For specific values of the wave parameters their motion can however become…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-14 P. -M. Zhang , P. A. Horvathy

We give an account of the gravitational memory effect in the presence of the exact plane wave solution of Einstein's vacuum equations. This allows an elementary but exact description of the soft gravitons and how their presence may be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-13 P. M. Zhang , C. Duval , G. W. Gibbons , P. A. Horvathy

It has long been known that gravitational waves from compact binary coalescing sources are responsible for a first-order displacement memory effect experienced by a pair of freely falling test masses. This constant displacement is sourced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-08 Atul K. Divakarla , Bernard F. Whiting

We derive the tensor gravitational waveform generated by a binary of nonspinning compact objects (black holes or neutron stars) in a general class of scalar-tensor theories of gravity. The waveform is accurate to second post-Newtonian order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-15 Ryan N. Lang

Gravitational waves (GWs) produce small distortions in the observable distribution of stars in the sky. We describe the characteristic pattern of astrometric deflections created by a specific gravitational waveform called a burst with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-27 Dustin R. Madison

Some astrophysical sources of gravitational waves can produce a "memory effect," which causes a permanent displacement of the test masses in a freely falling gravitational-wave detector. The Christodoulou memory is a particularly…

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