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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 wave memory effects arise from non-oscillatory components of gravitational wave signals, and they are predictions of general relativity in the nonlinear regime that have close connections to the asymptotic properties of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-30 Alexander M. Grant , David A. Nichols

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

In this study, we investigate the role of the non-linear memory effect in gravitational wave (GW) parameter estimation, particularly we explore its capability to break the degeneracy between luminosity distance and inclination angle in…

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

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 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 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

Full, non-linear general relativity predicts a memory effect for gravitational waves. For compact binary coalescence, the total gravitational memory serves as an inferred observable, conceptually on the same footing as the mass and the spin…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-17 Neev Khera , Badri Krishnan , Abhay Ashtekar , Tommaso De Lorenzo

In GW150914, approximately $3M_{\odot}$ were radiated away as gravitational waves from the binary black hole system as it merged. The stress energy of the gravitational wave itself causes a nonlinear memory effect in the detectors here on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-27 Aaron D. Johnson , Shasvath J. Kapadia , Andrew Osborne , Alex Hixon , Daniel Kennefick

Besides the transient effect, the passage of a gravitational wave also causes a persistent displacement in the relative position of an interferometer's test masses through the \emph{nonlinear memory effect}. This effect is generated by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-29 Silvia Gasparotto , Rodrigo Vicente , Diego Blas , Alexander C. Jenkins , Enrico Barausse

Gravitational-wave displacement memory is a remarkable and ubiquitous phenomenon predicted by general relativity, which has not yet been detected. Unlike the oscillatory components of gravitational waveforms, displacement memory is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-14 Yan Cao , Yong-Liang Ma , Yong Tang

The non-linear gravitational-wave memory effect is a prediction of general relativity in which test masses are permanently displaced by gravitational radiation. We implement a method for calculating the expected memory waveform from an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-26 Colm Talbot , Eric Thrane , Paul D. Lasky , Fuhui Lin

Gravitational wave memory is theorized to arise from the integrated history of gravitational wave emission, and manifests as a spacetime deformation in the wake of a propagating gravitational wave. We explore the detectability of the memory…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-01 Kristina Islo , Joseph Simon , Sarah Burke-Spolaor , Xavier Siemens

Gravitational memory effects are predictions of general relativity that are characterized by an observable effect that persists after the passage of gravitational waves. In recent years, they have garnered particular interest, both due to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-30 Alexander M. Grant , Keefe Mitman

Ground-based gravitational wave detectors are now routinely surveying the dark Universe, finding hundreds of collisions between compact objects such as black holes and neutron stars. However, terrestrial non-Gaussian noise artefacts,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-20 Gregory Ashton , Colm Talbot , Andrew Lundgren , Ann-Kristin Malz , Joseph Areeda

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

We present an approach to detecting (linear) gravitational wave memory in a Galactic core-collapse supernova using current interferometers. Gravitational wave memory is an important prediction of general relativity that has yet to be…

Gravitational wave (GW) memory, a permanent distortion of the space-time metric, is anticipated during the acceleration of relativistic jets in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). While the precise mechanism behind GRBs is not yet fully understood,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-23 Yusuke Sakai , Ryo Yamazaki , Yoshihiro Okutani , Satsuki Ueno , Norichika Sago , Marco Meyer-Conde , Hirotaka Takahashi

Gravitational memory is an important prediction of classical General Relativity, which is intimately related to asymptotic symmetries at null infinity and the so-called soft graviton theorem first shown by Weinberg. For a given transient…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-22 Huan Yang , Denis Martynov