Gravitational Waves and Their Memory in General Relativity
Abstract
General relativity explains gravitational radiation from binary black hole or neutron star mergers, from core-collapse supernovae and even from the inflation period in cosmology. These waves exhibit a unique effect called memory or Christodoulou effect, which in a detector like LIGO or LISA shows as a permanent displacement of test masses and in radio telescopes like NANOGrav as a change in the frequency of pulsars' pulses. It was shown that electromagnetic fields and neutrino radiation enlarge the memory. Recently it has been understood that the two types of memory addressed in the literature as `linear' and `nonlinear' are in fact two different phenomena. The former is due to fields that do not and the latter is due to fields that do reach null infinity.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1505.05213,
title = {Gravitational Waves and Their Memory in General Relativity},
author = {Lydia Bieri and David Garfinkle and Shing-Tung Yau},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.05213},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
To be published in the volume "The Centenary of General Relativity", volume 20 of "Surveys in Differential Geometry"