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Gravitational Radiation from Eccentric Binary Black Hole System in Dynamical Chern-Simons Gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2024-05-24 v2

Abstract

Dynamical Chern-Simons (DCS) gravity, a typical parity-violating gravitational theory, modifies both the generation and propagation of gravitational waves from general relativity (GR). In this work, we derive the gravitational waveform radiated from a binary black hole system with eccentric orbits under the spin-aligned assumption in the DCS theory. Compared with GR, DCS modification enters the second-order post-Newtonian (2PN) approximation, affecting the spin-spin coupling and monopole-quadrupole coupling of binary motion. This modification produces an extra precession rate of periastron. This effect modulates the scalar and gravitational waveform through a quite low frequency. Additionally, the dissipation of conserved quantities results in the secular evolution of the semimajor axis and the eccentricity of binary orbits. Finally, the frequency-domain waveform is given in the post-circular scheme, requiring the initial eccentricity to be 0.3\lesssim0.3. This ready-to-use template will benefit the signal searches and improve the future constraint on DCS theory.

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@article{arxiv.2309.05991,
  title  = {Gravitational Radiation from Eccentric Binary Black Hole System in Dynamical Chern-Simons Gravity},
  author = {Zhao Li and Jin Qiao and Tan Liu and Rui Niu and Shaoqi Hou and Tao Zhu and Wen Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.05991},
  year   = {2024}
}

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34 pages and 1 figure

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