Dipole-radiation-like deviations from general relativity are most prominent during the early inspiral of compact binaries, making space-ground multiband observations a potential probe of such effects. In the same regime, orbital eccentricity can leave a significant imprint on the waveform and is therefore essential for robust dipole-radiation constraints. For the first time we present a multiband Bayesian inference pipeline for stellar-mass binary black holes that simultaneously incorporates eccentricity and a theory-agnostic dipole-radiation correction. We find strong degeneracies among the dipole parameter, chirp mass, and eccentricity, which substantially weaken the inferred dipole constraints when eccentricity is included. Even so, for a GW231123-like source, one year of TianQin or LISA observation with ground-informed priors from a next-generation detector network can still constrain the dipole parameter to ∣b∣≲O(10−7) under inference with noisy data. Our results show that multiband binary black hole observations provide a promising and distinct channel for testing theory-agnostic dipole radiation, while also highlighting the need for more complete waveform modeling in future precision tests of gravity.
@article{arxiv.2604.27734,
title = {Constraining Dipole Radiation with Multiband Gravitational Waves from Eccentric Binary Black Holes},
author = {Han Wang and Lijing Shao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.27734},
year = {2026}
}