Abraham Harte

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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
2022 Harte, Abraham, I;Oancea, Marius A. (2022) 'Spin Hall effects and the localization of massless spinning particles'. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 105 (10). [DOI]
2021 Harte, AI;Gaffney, MT (2021) 'Extended-body effects and rocket-free orbital maneuvering'. Acta Astronautica, 178 :625-633. [DOI]
2020 Flanagan, EE; Grant, AM; Harte, AI; Nichols, DA (2020) 'Persistent gravitational wave observables: Nonlinear plane wave spacetimes'. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 101 . [DOI]
2020 Harte, AI (2020) 'Extended-body motion in black hole spacetimes: What is possible?'. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 102 . [DOI]
2019 Flanagan, EE; Grant, AM; Harte, AI; Nichols, DA (2019) 'Persistent gravitational wave observables: general framework'. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, . [Link] [DOI]
2019 Harte A. (2019) 'Gravitational lensing beyond geometric optics: II. Metric independence'. General Relativity and Gravitation, 51 (12). [DOI]
2019 Harte, AI (2019) 'Gravitational lensing beyond geometric optics: I. Formalism and observables'. General Relativity and Gravitation, 51 . [DOI]
2018 Harte, AI; Taylor, P; Flanagan, EE (2018) 'Foundations of the self-force problem in arbitrary dimensions'. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 97 . [DOI]
2017 Harte, Abraham I (2017) 'Metric Independence of Vacuum and Force-Free Electromagnetic Fields'. Physical Review Letters, 118 . [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
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]
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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

Modules Coordinated

Term Title Subject
2022 Description of 2021_MS539 MS539
2022 Topics in Astrophysics MS445
2022 Mechanics MS339
2022 Linear Algebra MS200