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Gravitational Waves (GWs) provide a powerful means for cosmological distance estimation, circumventing the systematic uncertainties associated with traditional electromagnetic (EM) indicators. This work presents a model for estimating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-14 Trisha V , Rakesh V , Arun Kenath

We present numerical solutions of several spacetimes of physical interest, including binary black hole mergers, in shift-symmetric Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet (ESGB) gravity, and describe our methods for solving the full equations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-25 William E. East , Justin L. Ripley

We introduce a novel method to compute gravitational wave amplitudes within the framework of effective field theory. By reinterpreting the Feynman diagram expansion as a Born series, our method offers several key advantages. It directly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-19 Simon Caron-Huot , Miguel Correia , Giulia Isabella , Mikhail Solon

Current searches for the gravitational-wave signature of compact binary mergers rely on matched-filtering data from interferometric observatories with sets of modelled gravitational waveforms. These searches currently use model waveforms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-02 Ian Harry , Juan Calderón Bustillo , Alex Nitz

The spin memory effect is a recently predicted relativistic phenomenon in asymptotically flat spacetimes that become nonradiative infinitely far in the past and future. Between these early and late times, the magnetic-parity part of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-28 David A. Nichols

We introduce a new approach for finding high accuracy, free and closed-form expressions for the gravitational waves emitted by binary black hole collisions from ab initio models. More precisely, our expressions are built from numerical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-15 Manuel Tiglio , Aarón Villanueva

Gravitational wave observations of black hole-neutron star binaries, particularly those where the black hole has a lower mass compared to other observed systems, have the potential to place strong constraints on modifications to general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-19 Maxence Corman , William E. East

Observations of gravitational waves (GWs) generated by binary black hole (BBH) mergers provide us with a powerful way to explore the strong and highly dynamical regime of gravity theories. The ringdown of BBH merger, consisting of a series…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-24 Zexin Hu , Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev , Lijing Shao

Gravitational waves cause freely falling spinning objects to precess, resulting in a net orientation change called gyroscopic memory. In this paper, we will consider isolated gravitational sources in the post-Newtonian framework and compute…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-13 Guillaume Faye , Ali Seraj

The memory effect is known to introduce a permanent displacement in the gravitational wave (GW) detectors after the passage of a GW signal. While the linear memory adheres to the source properties, the non-linear memory is a secondary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-05 Samik Dutta , Ankur Chhabra , Aritra Banerjee , Sajal Mukherjee , Subhendra Mohanty

We compute the non-linear memory contributions to the gravitational-wave amplitudes for compact binaries in eccentric orbits at the third post-Newtonian (3PN) order in general relativity. These contributions are hereditary in nature as they…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-22 Michael Ebersold , Yannick Boetzel , Guillaume Faye , Chandra K. Mishra , Bala R. Iyer , Philippe Jetzer

We discuss gravitational waves from merging binaries using a Newtonian approach with some inputs from the Post-Newtonian formalism. We show that it is possible to understand the key features of the signal using fundamental physics and also…

Popular Physics · Physics 2019-12-20 Jahanvi , Ashish Kumar Meena , J. S. Bagla

The modeling of gravitational wave ringdown has traditionally relied on linear perturbation theory, which mainly describes the late-time behavior of a perturbed black hole after a binary merger. However, the need for more accurate ringdown…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-03 Macarena Lagos

The orbital evolution of a binary system consisting of two primordial black hole clusters is investigated. Such clusters are predicted in some theoretical models with broken symmetry in the inflation Lagrangian. A cluster consists of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-07 Yury Eroshenko , Viktor Stasenko

This a particularly exciting time for gravitational wave physics. Ground-based gravitational wave detectors are now operating at a sensitivity such that gravitational radiation may soon be directly detected, and recently several groups have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 John G. Baker , Manuela Campanelli , Frans Pretorius , Yosef Zlochower

The gravitational wave (GW) memory from a radiating and decelerating point mass is studied in detail. It is found that for isotropic photon emission the memory generated from the photons is essentially the same with the memory from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Shota Akiba , Megumi Nakada , Chiyo Yamaguchi , Koichi Iwamoto

A gravitational wave pulse, while passing through spacetime, brings about a change in the relative separation between free particles. This `memory effect' serves as one of the signatures of gravitational waves. In this paper, we consider…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-13 Sucheta Datta , Sarbari Guha , Deeshani Mitra

Inferring the properties of colliding black holes from gravitational-wave observations is subject to systematic errors arising from modelling uncertainties. Although the accuracy of each model can be calculated through comparison to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-07 Charlie Hoy , Sarp Akcay , Jake Mac Uilliam , Jonathan E. Thompson

Activities in data analysis and numerical simulation of gravitational waves have to date largely proceeded independently. In this work we study how waveforms obtained from numerical simulations could be effectively used within the data…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Thomas Baumgarte , Patrick Brady , Jolien D E Creighton , Luis Lehner , Frans Pretorius , Ricky DeVoe

Gravitational wave observations of eccentric binary black hole mergers will provide unequivocal evidence for the formation of these systems through dynamical assembly in dense stellar environments. The study of these astrophysically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-06 E. A. Huerta , Roland Haas , Sarah Habib , Anushri Gupta , Adam Rebei , Vishnu Chavva , Daniel Johnson , Shawn Rosofsky , Erik Wessel , Bhanu Agarwal , Diyu Luo , Wei Ren