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General relativistic Riemann solvers are typically complex, fragile and unwieldy, at least in comparison to their special relativistic counterparts. In this paper, we present a new high-resolution shock-capturing algorithm on curved…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-29 Jonathan Gorard , Ammar Hakim , James Juno , Jason M. TenBarge

Non-metricity provides a natural extension of Riemannian geometry, yet its experimental signatures remain largely unexplored. In this work we investigate how spacetime non-metricity can be probed through high-precision observations,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-28 Mohsen Khodadi , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

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

The extreme-gravity collisions of binaries with one black hole and one neutron star provide for excellent tests of general relativity. We here study how well one can constrain theories beyond general relativity with additional scalar fields…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-08 Zack Carson , Brian C. Seymour , Kent Yagi

Perturbations form an important section of black hole analyses. This paper deals with the effect of perturbations as in the delineation of waves that occur. It makes use of the spin coefficients from [3] to represent the general equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Kartheek R Solipuram

We extend our research on the energy flux and waveform characteristics of gravitational waves generated by merging nonspinning binary black holes through self-consistent effective one-body theory \cite{L2023} to include binary systems with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-11 Weike Deng , Sheng Long , Jiliang Jing

We study the absorption of massless scalar waves in a geometry that interpolates between the Schwarzschild solution and a wormhole that belongs to the Morris-Thorne class of solutions. In the middle of the interpolation branch, this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-09 Haroldo C. D. Lima Junior , Carolina L. Benone , Luís C. B. Crispino

We present a new method for extracting the instantaneous orbital axis only from gravitational wave strains of precessing binary systems observed from a particular observer direction. This method enables us to reconstruct the co-precessing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-20 Kyohei Kawaguchi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Hiroyuki Nakano , Masaru Shibata

A pulsar timing array is a Galactic-scale detector of nanohertz gravitational waves (GWs). Its target signals contain two components: the `Earth term' and the `pulsar term' corresponding to GWs incident on the Earth and pulsar respectively.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-06 Xingjiang Zhu , Linqing Wen , Jie Xiong , Yanjun Xu , Yan Wang , Soumya D. Mohanty , George Hobbs , Richard N. Manchester

Some recently discovered nonperturbative strong-field effects in tensor-scalar theories of gravitation are interpreted as a scalar analog of ferromagnetism: "spontaneous scalarization". This phenomenon leads to very significant deviations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-24 Thibault Damour , Gilles Esposito-Farese

We present a new approach to solve the 2+1 Teukolsky equation for gravitational perturbations of a Kerr black hole. Our approach relies on a new horizon penetrating, hyperboloidal foliation of Kerr spacetime and spatial compactification. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-26 Enno Harms , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Alessandro Nagar , Anil Zenginoglu

Gravitational-wave astronomy provides a promising avenue for the discovery of new physics beyond general relativity as it probes extreme curvature and ultra-relativistic dynamics. However, in the absence of a compelling alternative to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-11 Lachlan Passenger , Shun Yin Cheung , Nir Guttman , Nikhil Kannachel , Paul D. Lasky , Eric Thrane

Numerical relativity (NR) enables the study of physics in strong and dynamical gravitational fields and provides predictions for the gravitational-wave signals produced by merging black holes. Despite the impressive accuracy of modern…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-15 Richard Dyer , Christopher J. Moore

The main result of the paper is a new representation for the Weyl Lagrangian (massless Dirac Lagrangian). As the dynamical variable we use the coframe, i.e. an orthonormal tetrad of covector fields. We write down a simple Lagrangian - wedge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-26 James Burnett , Dmitri Vassiliev

The recent reported gravitational wave detection motivates one to investigate the properties of different black hole models, especially their behavior under (axial) gravitational perturbation. Here, we study the quasinormal modes of black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-09 Mehrab Momennia , Seyed Hossein Hendi

Sapce-borne gravitational wave antennas, such as LISA and LISA-like mission (Taiji and Tianqin), will offer novel perspectives for exploring our Universe while introduce new challenges, especially in data analysis. Aside from the known…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-17 Yuxiang Xu , Minghui Du , Peng Xu , Bo Liang , He Wang

By precisely monitoring the "ticks" of Nature's most precise clocks (millisecond pulsars), scientists are trying to detect the "ripples in spacetime" (gravitational waves) produced by the inspirals of supermassive black holes in the centers…

Physics Education · Physics 2018-10-17 Michael T. Lam , Joseph D. Romano , Joey S. Key , Marc Normandin , Jeffrey S. Hazboun

We compute the gravitational waves generated by compact binary systems in a class of massless scalar-tensor (ST) theories to the 1.5 post-Newtonian (1.5PN) order beyond the standard quadrupole radiation in general relativity (GR). Using and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-02 David Trestini

We compute the gravitational waves generated by compact binary systems in a class of massless scalar-tensor (ST) theories to the 1.5 post-Newtonian (1.5PN) order beyond the standard quadrupole radiation in general relativity (GR). Using and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-30 Laura Bernard , Luc Blanchet , David Trestini

Scalar, vector and tensor perturbations on the Kerr spacetime are governed by equations that can be solved by separation of variables, but the same is not true in generic stationary and axisymmetric geometries. This complicates the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-03 Rajes Ghosh , Nicola Franchini , Sebastian H. Völkel , Enrico Barausse