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Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals, in which a stellar-mass object orbits a supermassive black hole, are prime sources of millihertz gravitational waves for upcoming space-based detectors. While most studies assume idealized vacuum backgrounds,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-18 Kyriakos Destounis , Pedro G. S. Fernandes

The memory effect in gravitational waves is a direct prediction of general relativity. The presence of the memory effect in gravitational wave signals not only serves as a test for general relativity but also establishes connections between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-23 Shuo Sun , Changfu Shi , Jian-dong Zhang , Jianwei Mei

[abridged abstract] No, within a broad class of scenarios. With the advent of gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy, environmental effects on the GW signal will eventually have to be quantified. Here we present a wide survey of the corrections…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-17 Enrico Barausse , Vitor Cardoso , Paolo Pani

This article studies the effects of an arbitrary dark matter spin tensor on the propagation of gravitational wave amplitude in the context of Einstein-Cartan theory. We choose to work with an arbitrary spin tensor because, given our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-21 E. Elizalde , F. Izaurieta , C. Riveros , G. Salgado , O. Valdivia

Understanding the properties of strongly interacting matter at extreme densities is a central problem in fundamental physics, but neutron star mergers provide a natural laboratory for probing this regime. However, the complexity of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-24 Nina Kunert , Guilherme Grams , William Newton , Edoardo Giangrandi , Anna Puecher , Hauke Koehn , Violetta Sagun , Tim Dietrich

Astrophysical black holes are invariably embedded in matter environments whose gravitational influence can alter key strong-field features of the spacetime. In this work, we investigate the impact of spherically symmetric dark-matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-30 Dylan S. Fonseca , Caio F. B. Macedo , Mateus Malato Corrêa , Diego Rubiera-Garcia

Ambient dark matter (DM) around binary black holes can imprint characteristic signatures on gravitational waves emitted from their merger. The exact signature depends sensitively on the DM density profile around the black holes. We run very…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-05 Shingo Hirano , Naoki Yoshida

This article aims at comparing gravitational wave memory effect in a Schwarzschild spacetime with that of other compact objects with static and spherically symmetric spacetime, with the purpose of proposing a procedure for differentiating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-12 Soumya Bhattacharya , Shramana Ghosh

Memoryless time evolutions are ubiquitous in nature but often correspond to a resolution-induced approximation, i.e. there are correlations in time whose effects are undetectable. Recent advances in the dynamical control of small quantum…

We investigate gravitational radiation memory and its corresponding effect on the asymptotic symmetries of a body whose exterior is a boosted Schwarzschild spacetime. First, in the context of linearized theory, we consider such a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-22 Thomas Mädler , Jeffrey Winicour

We study the gravitational effect of non-self-annihilating dark matter on compact stellar objects. The self-interaction of condensate dark matter can give high accretion rate of dark matter onto stars. Phase transition to condensation state…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-25 Xinyu Li , Fayin Wang , K. S. Cheng

We study the gravitational wave memory effect in spacetimes related to flat space by a conformal transformation. The discussion is general but the gravitational wave length scale is assumed to be small compared with the background curvature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-11 Niko Jokela , K. Kajantie , Miika Sarkkinen

Using numerical hydrodynamics simulations we studied the gravitational collapse of pre-stellar cores of sub-solar mass embedded into a low-density external environment. Four models with different magnitude and direction of rotation of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Eduard I. Vorobyov , D. N. C. Lin , Manuel Guedel

Extreme mass ratio inspirals, compact objects spiraling into massive black holes, represent key sources for future space-based gravitational-wave detectors such as LISA. The inspirals will occur within rich astrophysical environments…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-22 Lukáš Polcar , Vojtěch Witzany

Starting with a post-Newtonian description of compact binary systems, we derive a set of equations that describes the evolution of the orbital angular momentum and both spin vectors during inspiral. We find regions of phase space that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jeremy D. Schnittman

Gravitational lensing deflects the paths of photons, altering the statistics of cosmic backgrounds and distorting their information content. We take the Cosmic Infrared Background (CIB), which provides plentiful information about galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-26 Jaemyoung Lee , J. Richard Bond , Pavel Motloch , Alexander van Engelen , George Stein

Ultralight dark matter exhibits an order-one density fluctuation over the spatial scale of its wavelength. These fluctuations gravitationally interact with gravitational wave interferometers, leading to distinctive signals in detectors. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-22 Hyungjin Kim

Periodic orbits exhibiting zoom-whirl behavior have become attractive topics for studying particle dynamics and gravitational wave emission in extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs). This study systematically investigates periodic orbits…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-05 Guo-He Li , Chen-Kai Qiao , Jun Tao

Recent detections by the gravitational wave facilities LIGO/Virgo have opened a window to study the internal structure of neutron stars through the gravitational waves emitted during their coalescence. In this work we explore, through…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-26 Miguel Bezares , Daniele Viganò , Carlos Palenzuela

This work provides, at lower order, general analytical solutions for the orbital separation, merging time, and orbital frequency of binary systems emitting gravitational waves while being submitted to mass variations. Specific features,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-16 Baptiste Blachier , Aurélien Barrau , Killian Martineau , Cyril Renevey