Kevin Cunningham, Chris Kavanagh, Adam Pound, David Trestini, Niels Warburton and Jakob Neef
{"title":"Gravitational memory: new results from post-Newtonian and self-force theory","authors":"Kevin Cunningham, Chris Kavanagh, Adam Pound, David Trestini, Niels Warburton and Jakob Neef","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/adbc3d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/adbc3d","url":null,"abstract":"We compute the (displacement) gravitational wave memory due to a quasi-circular inspiral of two black holes using a variety of perturbative techniques. Within post-Newtonian theory, we extend previous results for non-spinning compact binaries to 3.5PN order. Using the gravitational self-force approach, we compute the memory at first order in the mass ratio for inspirals into a Kerr black hole. We do this both numerically and via a double post-Newtonian–self-force expansion which we carry out to 5PN order. At second order in the self-force approach, near-zone calculations encounter an infrared divergence associated with memory, which is resolved through matching the near-zone solution to a post-Minkowskian expansion in the far zone. We describe that matching procedure for the first time and show how it introduces nonlocal-in-time memory effects into the two-body dynamics at second order in the mass ratio, as was also predicted by recent 5PN calculations within the effective field theory approach. We then compute the gravitational-wave memory through second order in the mass ratio (excluding certain possible memory distortion effects) and find that it agrees well with recent results from numerical relativity simulations for near-comparable-mass binaries.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144520406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mou Xu, Jianbo Lu, Ruonan Li, Yu Liu and Shu-Min Wu
{"title":"Particle dynamics and optical appearance of charged spherically symmetric black holes in bumblebee gravity","authors":"Mou Xu, Jianbo Lu, Ruonan Li, Yu Liu and Shu-Min Wu","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/ade6b9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ade6b9","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we study the particle dynamics, shadow, and optical appearance of charged black holes (BHs) in bumblebee gravity. Firstly, we find that the Lorentz-violation parameter l and charge parameter Q have opposite effects on the peak of the effective potential by analyzing timelike geodesics, and the radius of the innermost stable circular orbit decreases as the BH parameters l and Q increase. We also explore the behaviors of particle energy, angular momentum, and Keplerian frequency. Secondly, for null geodesics, both the photon sphere radius and the shadow radius decrease with increasing l and Q, and are consistently smaller than those of the Reissner–Nordström BH (RNBH) and Schwarzschild-like BH. And based on observational data reported by the event horizon telescope collaboration, we constrain the parameters l and Q by using the shadow radius data of Sgr A*. Thirdly, we explore the observation characteristics of charged BHs under three thin disk accretion models. The results show that, compared to RNBH, the increase of l leads to a greater thickness of the photon rings and lensed rings. However, due to their extremely narrow ranges, the contributions are small, and the observed intensities are mainly contributed by the direct emissions. Moreover, when the parameter l is fixed, the peaks of the observed intensities of rings decrease with increasing Q for the same emission model, and it is always lower than the corresponding value for Schwarzschild-like BH. These findings contribute to distinguishing bumblebee charged BHs from other types of BHs based on their optical appearance.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144520407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Symmetries of the celestial supersphere","authors":"Adam Tropper","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/ade58a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ade58a","url":null,"abstract":"We study the celestial CFT dual to theories with bulk supersymmetry. The boundary theory realizes supersymmetry in the spirit of the Green–Schwarz superstring: there is manifest 4d super-Poincaré symmetry, but no 2d superconformal symmetry. Nevertheless, we can extend the celestial sphere itself to a supermanifold—the celestial supersphere. This provides a unified framework for describing key features of celestial holography, including conformally soft theorems, OPEs, and chiral soft algebras. Using these tools, we demonstrate that the algebra extends to a novel algebra. We also relate the supersymmetric algebra to Hamiltonian vector fields on , consistent with the expectation from twistor theory, and deduce the deformation of this algebra by a cosmological constant, Λ. These results are all universal and independent of the specific details of the underlying theory.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144516119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the unexpected geometrical origin of the algebra of symmetries","authors":"O Ramírez and Y Bonder","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/ade35e","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ade35e","url":null,"abstract":"The fundamental symmetries in gravity and gauge theories, formulated using differential forms, are gauge transformations and diffeomorphisms. Although these symmetries act differently on regular fields and connections, their commutator yields the same closed algebra in both cases, hinting at an underlying mathematical structure. This work uncovers a natural correspondence between this algebra and the Lie bracket of some vector fields on the principal fiber bundle associated with the physical theory, providing a geometric interpretation of the symmetry algebra. Furthermore, we investigate how the previously identified structure changes when the connection on the principal fiber bundle is modified, and we analyze an example, using our methods, illustrating the relationship between Lorentz-Lie transformations and spacetime Killing vector fields.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144516116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quasilocal Newtonian limit of general relativity and galactic dynamics","authors":"Marco Galoppo, Federico Re and David L Wiltshire","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/ade48b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ade48b","url":null,"abstract":"We present a new self-consistent perturbative expansion for realistic isolated differentially rotating systems—disc galaxies. At leading order it is formally equivalent to Ehlers’ Newton–Cartan limit, which we reinterpret in terms of quasilocal energy and angular momentum. The self-consistent coupling of these quasilocal terms leads to first-order differences from the conventional Newtonian limit. A modified Poisson equation is obtained, along with modifications to the equations of motion for the effective fluid elements. By fitting to astrophysical data, we show that the phenomenology of collisionless dark matter for disc galaxies can be reproduced. Potential important consequences for gravitational physics on galactic and cosmological scales are briefly discussed.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144516120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jasel Berra-Montiel, Iñaki de Santos and Alberto Molgado
{"title":"Geometric analysis for the Pontryagin action and boundary terms","authors":"Jasel Berra-Montiel, Iñaki de Santos and Alberto Molgado","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/ade41a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ade41a","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we analyse the Pontryagin model adopting different geometric-covariant approaches. In particular, we focus on the manner in which boundary conditions must be imposed on the fields describing the bulk theory in order to reproduce a well-defined theory on the boundary. At a Lagrangian level, we describe the symmetries of the theory and construct the Lagrangian covariant momentum map which allows for an extension of Noether’s theorems. Through the multisymplectic analysis we obtain the covariant momentum map associated with the action of the gauge group on the covariant multimomenta phase-space. By performing a space plus time decomposition by means of a foliation of the appropriate bundles, we are able to recover not only the t-instantaneous Lagrangian and Hamiltonian of the theory, but also the generator of the gauge transformations. In the polysymplectic framework we perform a Poisson-Hamilton analysis with the help of the De Donder–Weyl Hamiltonian and the Poisson–Gerstenhaber bracket. Remarkably, as long as we consider a background manifold with boundary, in all of these geometric formulations, we are able to recover the so-called differentiability conditions which endorse the Hamiltonian as a differentiable function, here obtained as a straightforward consequence of Noether’s theorem.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"81 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144515997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adaptive modeling of correlated noise in space-based gravitational wave detectors","authors":"Ya-Nan Li, Yi-Ming Hu and En-Kun Li","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/ade51a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ade51a","url":null,"abstract":"Accurately estimating the statistical properties of noise is important in data analysis for space-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors. Noise in different time-delay interferometry channels correlates with each other. Many studies often assume uncorrelated noise and ignore the off-diagonal elements in the noise covariance matrix. This could lead to some bias in the parameter estimation of GW signals. In this paper, we present a framework for reconstructing the full noise covariance matrix, including frequency-dependent auto- and cross-correlated power spectral densities, without assuming the parametric analytic expressions of the noise model. Our approach combines spline interpolation with trigonometric basis functions to construct a semi-analytical representation of the noise. We then employ trans-dimensional Bayesian inference to fit the correlated noise structure. The resulting software package, NOISAR, successfully recovers both auto- and cross-correlated power spectral features with a relative error of about 10%.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"135 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144516121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Instability of marginally outer trapped surfaces from initial data set symmetry","authors":"Abbas M Sherif","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/ade58b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ade58b","url":null,"abstract":"Let be an initial data set and let xa be a symmetry vector of . Consider a marginally outer trapped surface in and let the symmetry vector be decomposable along the unit normal to in , and along . In this note we present some basic results with regards to the stability of . The vector decomposition allows us to characterize the instability of by the nature of the zero set of the normal component to and the divergence of the component along . Further observations are made under the assumption of having a constant mean curvature, and being an Einstein manifold.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"70 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144488448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Miguel Duarte, Justin C Feng, Edgar Gasperín and David Hilditch
{"title":"An asymptotic systems approach for the good–bad–ugly model with application to general relativity","authors":"Miguel Duarte, Justin C Feng, Edgar Gasperín and David Hilditch","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/ade10f","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ade10f","url":null,"abstract":"We employ an adapted version of Hörmander’s asymptotic systems method to show heuristically that the standard good–bad–ugly model admits formal polyhomogeneous asymptotic solutions near null infinity. In a related earlier approach, our heuristics were unable to capture potential leading order logarithmic terms appearing in the asymptotic solution of the good equation (the standard wave equation). Presently, we work with an improved method which overcomes this shortcoming, allowing the faithful treatment of a larger class of initial data in which such logarithmic terms are manifest. We then generalize this method to encompass models that include stratified null forms as sources and whose wave operators are built from an asymptotically flat metric. We then apply this result to the Einstein field equations in generalized harmonic gauge and compute the leading decay in R−1 of the Weyl scalars, where R is a suitably defined radial coordinate. We detect an obstruction to peeling, a decay statement on the Weyl scalars that is ensured by smoothness of null infinity. The leading order obstruction appears in Ψ2 and, in agreement with the literature, can only be suppressed by a careful choice of initial data.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144479067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marcel Beck, Shreevathsa Chalathadka Subrahmanya and Oliver Gerberding
{"title":"Adjustable picometer-stable interferometers for testing space-based gravitational wave detectors","authors":"Marcel Beck, Shreevathsa Chalathadka Subrahmanya and Oliver Gerberding","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/ade1c7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ade1c7","url":null,"abstract":"Space-based gravitational wave detectors, such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, use picometer-precision laser interferometry to detect gravitational waves at frequencies from 1 Hz down to below 0.1 mHz. Laser interferometers used for on-ground prototyping and testing of such instruments are typically constructed by permanently bonding or gluing optics onto an ultra-stable bench made of low-expansion glass ceramic. This design minimises temperature coupling to length and tilt, which dominates the noise at low frequencies due to finite temperature stability achievable in laboratories and vacuum environments. Here, we present the study of an alternative opto-mechanical concept where optical components are placed with adjustable and freely positionable mounts on an ultra-stable bench, while maintaining picometer length stability. With this concept, a given interferometer configuration can be realised very quickly due to a simplified and speed-up assembly process, reducing the realisation time from weeks or months to a matter of hours. We built a corresponding test facility and verified the length stability of our concept by measuring the length change in an optical cavity that was probed with two different locking schemes, heterodyne laser frequency stabilisation and Pound–Drever–Hall locking. We studied the limitations of both locking schemes and verified that the cavity length noise is below 1 pm for frequencies down to 3 mHz. We thereby demonstrate that our concept can simplify the testing of interferometer configurations and opto-mechanical components and is suitable to realise flexible optical ground support equipment for space missions that use laser interferometry, such as future space-based gravitational wave detectors and satellite geodesy missions.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144371131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}