Abraham Harte
Dr.
Abraham Harte received a B.S. degree in physics from Caltech and a Ph.D. in physics from the Pennsylvania State University. After postdoctoral work at the University of Chicago and at the Albert Einstein Institute in Germany, he moved to DCU as an assistant professor in mathematical sciences.
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Abraham I Harte; Thomas B Mieling; Marius A Oancea; Elisabeth Steininger (2025) 'Gravitational wave memory and its effects on particles and fields'. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, . [DOI] | |
| 2023 | Abraham I Harte; David Dwyer (2023) 'Local symmetries as constraints on the motion of freely falling extended bodies'. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 108 . [DOI] | |
| 2022 | Harte, A.I.; Oancea, M.A. (2022) 'Spin Hall effects and the localization of massless spinning particles'. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 105 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2021 | Harte, A.I.; Gaffney, M.T. (2021) 'Extended-body effects and rocket-free orbital maneuvering'. Acta Astronautica, 178 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2020 | Flanagan, É.; Grant, A.M.; Harte, A.I.; Nichols, D.A. (2020) 'Persistent gravitational wave observables: Nonlinear plane wave spacetimes'. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 101 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2020 | Harte, A.I. (2020) 'Extended-body motion in black hole spacetimes: What is possible?'. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 102 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Flanagan, É.E.; Grant, A.M.; Harte, A.I.; Nichols, D.A. (2019) 'Persistent gravitational wave observables: General framework'. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 99 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Harte, A.I. (2019) 'Gravitational lensing beyond geometric optics: II. Metric independence'. General Relativity and Gravitation, 51 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Harte, A.I. (2019) 'Gravitational lensing beyond geometric optics: I. Formalism and observables'. General Relativity and Gravitation, 51 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2018 | Harte, A.I.; Taylor, P.; Flanagan, É. (2018) 'Foundations of the self-force problem in arbitrary dimensions'. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 97 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2017 | Harte, AI (2017) 'Metric Independence of Vacuum and Force-Free Electromagnetic Fields'. Physical Review Letters, 118 (14). [DOI] | |
| 2016 | Harte, Abraham I; Vines, Justin (2016) 'Generating exact solutions to Einstein’s equation using linearized approximations'. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 94 (8). | |
| 2016 | Harte, Abraham I; Flanagan, Eanna E; Taylor, Peter (2016) 'Self-forces on static bodies in arbitrary dimensions'. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 93 (12). | |
| 2015 | Harte, Abraham I (2015) 'Optics in a nonlinear gravitational plane wave'. 32 (17). | |
| 2014 | Harte, Abraham I (2014) 'Taming the Nonlinearity of the Einstein Equation'. Physical Review Letters, 113 (26). | |
| 2014 | Dolan, Sam R and Warburton, Niels and Harte, Abraham I and Le Tiec, Alexandre and Wardell, Barry and Barack, Leor (2014) 'Gravitational self-torque and spin precession in compact binaries'. 89 (6). | |
| 2013 | Harte, Abraham I (2013) 'Tails of plane wave spacetimes: Wave-wave scattering in general relativity'. 88 (8). | |
| 2013 | Harte, Abraham I (2013) 'Strong lensing, plane gravitational waves and transient flashes'. 30 (7). | |
| 2013 | Siegel, Daniel M and Ciolfi, Riccardo and Harte, Abraham I and Rezzolla, Luciano (2013) 'Magnetorotational instability in relativistic hypermassive neutron stars'. 87 (12). | |
| 2012 | Harte, Abraham I (2012) 'Mechanics of extended masses in general relativity'. 29 (5). | |
| 2012 | Harte, Abraham I and Drivas, Theodore D (2012) 'Caustics and wave propagation in curved spacetimes'. 85 (12). | |
| 2010 | Gralla, Samuel E and Harte, Abraham I and Wald, Robert M (2010) 'Bobbing and kicks in electromagnetism and gravity'. 81 (10). | |
| 2010 | Harte, Abraham I (2010) 'Effective stress--energy tensors, self-force and broken symmetry'. 27 (13). | |
| 2010 | Harte, Abraham I (2010) 'Effects of the singular self-field on the motion of an extended body'. . | |
| 2009 | Harte, Abraham I (2009) 'Electromagnetic self-forces and generalized Killing fields'. 26 (15). | |
| 2009 | Gralla, Samuel E and Harte, Abraham I and Wald, Robert M (2009) 'Rigorous derivation of electromagnetic self-force'. 80 (2). | |
| 2008 | Harte, Abraham I (2008) 'Self-forces from generalized Killing fields'. 25 (23). | |
| 2008 | Harte, Abraham I (2008) 'Approximate spacetime symmetries and conservation laws'. 25 (20). | |
| 2007 | Harte, Abraham I (2007) 'Multipole structure of current vectors in curved space-time'. 48 (1). | |
| 2007 | Harte, Abraham I (2007) 'Extended-body effects in cosmological spacetimes'. 24 (20). | |
| 2006 | Harte, Abraham I (2006) 'Self-forces on extended bodies in electrodynamics'. 73 (6). | |
| 2002 | Burko, Lior M and Harte, Abraham I and Poisson, Eric (2002) 'Mass loss by a scalar charge in an expanding universe'. 65 (12). |
Book Chapter
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2015 | Harte, Abraham I (2015) 'Motion in classical field theories and the foundations of the self-force problem' In: Equations of Motion in Relativistic Gravity. New York : Springer. [DOI] |
Research Paper
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Harte, A I, Taylor, P., and Flangan, E. E. (2017) Self-forces in arbitrary dimensions. RP [Link] |
Pre-print
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Abraham Harte; Eanna Flanagan; Francisco Blanco (2025) Nonlinearly self-interacting extended bodies move as test bodies in effective external fields. PREPRINT [DOI] |
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Research Interests
General relativity and gravitational physics: Theory of motion (self-force and extended-body effects), wave propagation in curved spacetimes, gravitational lensing, gravitational waves