Inferring fundamental spacetime symmetries with gravitational-wave memory: from LISA to the Einstein Telescope

B Goncharov, L Donnay, J Harms - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We revisit gravitational wave (GW) memory as the key to measuring spacetime symmetries,
extending beyond its traditional role in GW searches. In particular, we show how these …

Enhancing gravitational wave parameter estimation with nonlinear memory: Breaking the distance-inclination degeneracy

Y Xu, M Rosselló-Sastre, S Tiwari, M Ebersold… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
In this study, we investigate the role of the nonlinear memory effect in gravitational wave
(GW) parameter estimation; particularly, we explore its capability to break the degeneracy …

Numerical relativity surrogate model with memory effects and post-Newtonian hybridization

J Yoo, K Mitman, V Varma, M Boyle, SE Field, N Deppe… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Numerical relativity simulations provide the most precise templates for the gravitational
waves produced by binary black hole mergers. However, many of these simulations use an …

Improved frequency spectra of gravitational waves with memory in a binary-black-hole simulation

Y Chen, M Boyle, N Deppe, LE Kidder, K Mitman… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Numerical relativists can now produce gravitational waveforms with memory effects routinely
and accurately. The gravitational-wave memory effect contains very low-frequency …

Gravitational wave memory beyond general relativity

L Heisenberg, N Yunes, J Zosso - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Gravitational wave memory is a nonoscillatory correction to the gravitational wave strain
predicted by general relativity, which has yet to be detected. Within general relativity, its …

Waveform model for the missing quadrupole mode from black hole coalescence: Memory effect and ringdown of the spherical harmonic

M Rosselló-Sastre, S Husa, S Bera - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
In this paper we describe a model for the (ℓ= 2, m= 0) spherical harmonic mode of the
gravitational wave signal emitted by the coalescence of binary black holes, in particular, spin …

Higher memory effects in numerical simulations of binary black hole mergers

AM Grant, K Mitman - Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Does spacetime have memories? Searching for gravitational-wave memory in the third LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA gravitational-wave transient catalogue

SY Cheung, PD Lasky, E Thrane - Classical and Quantum …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Gravitational-wave memory is a non-linear effect predicted by general relativity that remains
undetected. We apply a Bayesian analysis framework to search for gravitational-wave …

Bayesian analysis of the gravitational wave memory effect with TianQin

S Sun, C Shi, J Zhang, J Mei - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
The memory effect in gravitational waves is a direct prediction of general relativity. The
presence of the memory effect in gravitational wave signals not only serves as a test for …

Orientation memory of magnetic dipoles

B Oblak, A Seraj - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We study the precession caused by electromagnetic radiation on a magnetic dipole located
far from the source. As we show, this entails a net rotation of the dipole in the plane …