Bumblebee gravity perturbations decouple exactly into gravitational and vector sectors, with gravitational modes dynamically immune to Lorentz violation and odd-even parities strictly isospectral.
Tidal Response of Compact Objects
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The tidal response of compact objects provides a powerful probe of their internal structure and of the surrounding gravitational field. We provide a comprehensive and unified overview of tidal effects in black holes, neutron stars, and exotic compact objects, with emphasis on both static and dynamical responses to external fields, encoded in Love numbers and dissipation numbers. We discuss the vanishing of static bosonic Love numbers for black holes in vacuum General Relativity, their modifications in alternative theories, in non-standard models of compact objects, and in the presence of matter, as well as their role in testing deviations from Einstein's theory and environmental effects. A fundamental distinction between bosonic and fermionic perturbations is highlighted, as the latter yield nonzero static Love numbers even for black holes in General Relativity. For neutron stars, we overview the dependence of tidal Love numbers on the equation of state, the emergence of quasi-universal relations, and the impact of rotation, nonlinearities, and dynamical effects. Exotic compact objects typically feature nonvanishing static tidal Love numbers -- a striking observational signature that differentiates them from black holes. We further review how tidal effects influence the gravitational-wave signals from binary inspirals, and explore their implications for gravitational-wave astronomy. In particular, we stress their significance for current and future detectors as tools to test General Relativity, constrain the nuclear equation of state, and probe the fundamental nature of compact objects and their environments.
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Axial tidal Love numbers for black holes in anisotropic fluid environments are derived analytically and numerically, with non-compact support density profiles producing logarithmic terms that obstruct standard tidal matching due to the lack of a strictly vacuum exterior.
Dynamical tidal Love numbers for Kerr black holes are obtained to linear frequency order by matching EFT worldline couplings to black-hole perturbation solutions, including spin-induced mode mixing.
Corrects the subleading term in the center Frobenius expansion for interior even-parity perturbations of relativistic stars without altering computed Love numbers k2, while extending the static even-parity formalism to Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetimes.
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Gravitational-Bumblebee perturbations: Exact decoupling and isospectrality
Bumblebee gravity perturbations decouple exactly into gravitational and vector sectors, with gravitational modes dynamically immune to Lorentz violation and odd-even parities strictly isospectral.
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Axial tidal Love numbers of black holes in matter environments
Axial tidal Love numbers for black holes in anisotropic fluid environments are derived analytically and numerically, with non-compact support density profiles producing logarithmic terms that obstruct standard tidal matching due to the lack of a strictly vacuum exterior.
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Dynamical tidal Love numbers of black holes under generic perturbations: Connecting black hole perturbation theory with effective field theory
Dynamical tidal Love numbers for Kerr black holes are obtained to linear frequency order by matching EFT worldline couplings to black-hole perturbation solutions, including spin-induced mode mixing.
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Static Tidal Perturbations of Relativistic Stars: Corrected Center Expansion and Love Numbers-I
Corrects the subleading term in the center Frobenius expansion for interior even-parity perturbations of relativistic stars without altering computed Love numbers k2, while extending the static even-parity formalism to Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetimes.