Detecting the gravitational wave memory effect with TianQin

Abstract

The gravitational wave memory effect is a prediction of general relativity. The presence of memory effect in gravitational wave signals not only provides the chance to test an important aspect of general relativity, but also represents a potentially non-negligible contribution to the waveform for certain gravitational wave events. In this paper, we study the prospect of detecting the gravitational wave memory effect directly with the planned space-based gravitational wave detector -- TianQin. We find that during its 5 years operation, for the gravitational wave signals that could be detected by TianQin, about $0.5\sim 2.0$ signals may contain displacement memory effect with signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) greater than 3. This suggests that the chance for TianQin to detect the displacement memory effect directly is low but not fully negligible. In contrast, the chance to detect the spin memory is negligible. We also study that in which parameter space, the memory effect is expected to be significant in waveform modeling.

arXiv comment14 pages, 9 figures

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