2011

The gravitational-wave memory from eccentric binaries

Favata, Marc

Understand

The nonlinear gravitational-wave memory causes a time-varying but nonoscillatory correction to the gravitational-wave polarizations.

  • It arises from gravitational waves that are sourced by gravitational waves.
  • Previous considerations of the nonlinear memory effect have focused on quasicircular binaries.
  • Here, I consider the nonlinear memory from Newtonian orbits with arbitrary eccentricity.

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