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Gravitational waves (GWs) are fluctuations in the fabric of spacetime predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity. Using a collection of millisecond pulsars as high-precision clocks, the nanohertz band of this radiation is likely…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 P. Demorest , J. Lazio , A. Lommen

Gravitational-wave astronomy has the potential to explore one of the deepest and most puzzling aspects of Einstein's theory: the existence of black holes. A plethora of ultracompact, horizonless objects have been proposed to arise in models…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-04 Enrico Barausse , Richard Brito , Vitor Cardoso , Irina Dvorkin , Paolo Pani

A proper-time method for constructing models of dynamic gravitational-wave fields is presented. Using the proper-time method, analytical (not numerical) models of secondary gravitational waves are constructed as perturbative solutions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-10 Konstantin E. Osetrin

Spiral waves are striking self-organized coherent structures that organize spatio-temporal dynamics in dissipative, spatially extended systems. In this paper, we provide a conceptual approach to various properties of spiral waves. Rather…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-02-09 Björn Sandstede , Arnd Scheel

Gravitational waves emitted by distorted black holes---such as those arising from the coalescence of two neutron stars or black holes---carry not only information about the corresponding spacetime but also about the underlying theory of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-05 Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo , Caio F. B. Macedo , Vitor Cardoso , Valeria Ferrari , Leonardo Gualtieri , Fech Scen Khoo , Jutta Kunz , Paolo Pani

It is well known that Einstein's General Relativity (GR) achieved a great success and overcame lots of experimental tests. On the other hand, GR also showed some shortcomings and flaws which today advise theorists to ask if it is the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-09 Christian Corda

Solving Einstein's equations precisely for strong-field gravitational systems is essential to determining the full physics content of gravitational wave detections. Without these solutions it is not possible to infer precise values for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-04 Robert A. Eisenstein

With the arrival of the era of gravitational wave astronomy, the strong gravitational field regime will be explored soon in various aspects. In this article, we provide a general review over cylindrical systems in Einstein's theory of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-13 K. Bronnikov , N. O. Santos , Anzhong Wang

The rapid development of gravitational wave astronomy provides the unique opportunity of exploring the dynamics of the Universe using clustering properties of coalescing binary black hole mergers. Gravitational wave data, along with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-04 Michele Bosi , Nicola Bellomo , Alvise Raccanelli

Gravitational waves deliver information in exquisite detail about astrophysical phenomena, among them the collision of two black holes, a system completely invisible to the eyes of electromagnetic telescopes. Models that predict…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-24 Deirdre Shoemaker , Karan Jani , Lionel London , Larne Pekowsky

The theory of general relativity, which is extremely well verified by classic tests in the solar system as well as by the radiation of the binary pulsar, is one of the fundamental tools of nowadays astrophysics. It permits the computation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Luc Blanchet

Gravitational waves are radiative solutions of space-time dynamics predicted by Einstein's theory of General Relativity. A world-wide array of large-scale and highly sensitive interferometric detectors constantly scrutinizes the geometry of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-15 Eric Chassande-Mottin

This paper is concerned with the global stability of the plane wave solutions to the relativistic string equation with non-small perturbations. Under certain decay assumptions on the plane wave, we conclude that the perturbed system admits…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Jinhua Wang , Changhua Wei

Gravitational wave predicted by General Relativity is the transverse wave of spatial strain. Several gravitational waveform signals from binary black holes and from a binary neutron star system accompanied by electromagnetic counterparts…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-02 Kai Liao , Marek Biesiada , Xi-Long Fan

We study gravitational waves propagating through an anisotropic Bianchi I dust-filled universe (containing the Einstein-de-Sitter universe as a special case). The waves are modeled as small perturbations of this background cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 P. A. Hogan , E. M. O'Shea

Gravitational waves provide a unique window into gravity, cosmology, and high-energy physics, enabling the exploration of fundamental phenomena across a wide range of scales. This review presents a coherent and pedagogical framework that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-25 Azadeh Maleknejad

We present a solution to the vacuum Einstein Equations which represents a collapse of a gravitational wave in 5 dimensions. Depending on the focal length of the wave, the collapse results, either in a black string covered by a horizon, or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Alexander Feinstein

The population of stellar-mass, compact object binaries that merge with non-negligible eccentricity may be large enough to motivate searches with ground-based gravitational wave detectors. Such events could be exceptional laboratories to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-11 Nicholas Loutrel , Nicolas Yunes , Frans Pretorius

In this work it is shown how to obtain, in a simple way, localized (non- diffractive) subluminal pulses as exact analytic solutions to the wave equations. These new ideal subluminal solutions, which propagate without distortion in any…

Classical Physics · Physics 2008-08-29 Michel Zamboni-Rached , Erasmo Recami

Gravitational waves (GWs) provide a unique opportunity to test General Relativity (GR) in the highly dynamical, strong-field regime. So far, the majority of the tests of GR with GW signals have been carried out following parametrized,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-17 Félix-Louis Julié , Lorenzo Pompili , Alessandra Buonanno