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In this article, we compare in detail the linear and nonlinear approach to the Gravitational Waves Displacement and Velocity Memory (GWDM and GWVM) effects. We consider astrophysical situations that give rise to gravitational waves with…

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The two gravitomagnetic effects which influence bodies orbiting around a gravitational source are the geodetic effect and the Lense-Thirring effect. The former describes the precession angle of the axis of a spinning gyroscope while in…

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Using the multipolar post-Minkowskian and matching formalism we compute the gravitational waveform of inspiralling compact binaries moving in quasi-circular orbits at the second and a half post-Newtonian (2.5PN) approximation to general…

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Compact binaries in hyperbolic orbits are plausible gravitational wave (GW) sources for the upcoming and planned GW observatories. We develop an efficient prescription to compute post-Newtonian (PN) accurate ready-to-use GW polarization…

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This article provides the details on the technical derivation of the gravitational waveform and total gravitational-wave energy flux of non-spinning compact binary systems to the 4PN (fourth post-Newtonian) order beyond the Einstein…

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Gravitational waves from precessing black-hole binaries exhibit features that are absent in nonprecessing systems. The most prominent of these is a parity-violating asymmetry that beams energy and linear momentum preferentially along or…

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The gravitational wave memory effect is characterized by the permanent relative displacement of a pair of initially comoving test particles that is caused by the passage of a burst of gravitational waves. Recent research on this effect has…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-27 Éanna É. Flanagan , Alexander M. Grant , Abraham I. Harte , David A. Nichols

The orbit-averaged fluxes of energy and angular momentum generated by a compact binary system of nonspinning particles are obtained in a popular class of massless scalar-tensor theories with first-and-a-half post-Newtonian (1.5PN) accuracy,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-31 David Trestini

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 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

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

We present the first computation of the nonlinear gravitational memory waveform for the scattering of two compact objects in General Relativity at leading order in the post-Minkowskian expansion. We use the scattering-amplitudes-based…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-27 Alessandro Georgoudis , Vasco Goncalves , Carlo Heissenberg , Julio Parra-Martinez

Gravitational-wave memory is a low-frequency, non-oscillatory signal that provides a promising probe of strong-field gravity. We present the first computation of memory from full inspiral--merger--ringdown waveforms in a theory beyond GR,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-11 Silvia Gasparotto

We study gravitational wave memory effect in the FRW cosmological model with matter and cosmological constant. Since the background is curved, gravitational radiation develops a tail part arriving after the main signal that travels along…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-02 Niko Jokela , K. Kajantie , Miika Sarkkinen

Gravitational wave memory is an important prediction of general relativity. The detection of the gravitational wave memory can be used to test general relativity and to deduce the property of the gravitational wave source. Quantitative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-07 Xiaolin Liu , Xiaokai He , Zhoujian Cao

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…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-25 Marc Favata

General relativistic spin-orbit interaction leads to the quasiresonant oscillation of the gyroscope mass center along the orbital normal. The beating amplitude does not include the speed of light and equals the ratio of the intrinsic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 O. B. Karpov

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

The gravitational-wave (GW) memory effect is a strong-field relativistic phenomenon that is associated with a persistent change in the GW strain after the passage of a GW. The nonlinear effect arises from interactions of GWs themselves in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-01 Arwa Elhashash , David A. Nichols

The nonlinear, or null gravitational memory effect for zoom-whirl orbits around fast spinning Kerr black holes for extreme mass ratio systems has a staircase structure. The latter is characterized by a periodic fast increase in the memory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-21 Lior M. Burko , Gaurav Khanna