Imperial College London
Portrait Picture

Claudia de Rham

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics

Professor of Theoretical Physics
 
 
 
//

Contact

 

c.de-rham CV

 
 
//

Location

 

H506Huxley BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

//

Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{de:2020:10.1103/PhysRevD.102.024079,
author = {de, Rham C and Francfort, J and Zhang, J},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.102.024079},
journal = {Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology},
pages = {024079  1--024079  14},
title = {Black hole gravitational waves in the effective field theory of gravity},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.102.024079},
volume = {102},
year = {2020}
}
Download

RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - JOUR
AB  - We investigate the propagation of gravitational waves on a black hole background within the low-energy effective field theory of gravity, where effects from heavy fields are captured by higher-dimensional curvature operators. Depending on the spin of the particles integrated out, the speed of gravitational waves at low energy can be either superluminal or subluminal as compared to the causal structure observed by other species. Interestingly, however, gravitational waves are always exactly luminal at the black hole horizon, implying that the horizon is identically defined for all species. We further compute the corrections on quasinormal frequencies caused by the higher-dimensional curvature operators and highlight the corrections arising from the low-energy effective field.
AU  - de,Rham C
AU  - Francfort,J
AU  - Zhang,J
DO  - 10.1103/PhysRevD.102.024079
EP  - 1
PY  - 2020///
SN  - 1550-2368
SP  - 024079
TI  - Black hole gravitational waves in the effective field theory of gravity
T2  - Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.102.024079
UR  - http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000552579500010&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
UR  - https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.102.024079
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/82745
VL  - 102
ER  -
Download