General relativity predicts that massless waves should scatter from the Riemann curvature of their backgrounds. These scattered waves are sometimes called tails and have never been directly observed. Can we calculate the gravitational waves scattered in the backward direction (scattering angle ϑ=π) from the weak-field curvature of an extended massive object, finding close agreement with previous results in the long-wavelength limit.??

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