Quadrupolar gravitational radiation as a test-bed for f(R)-gravity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2014-11-13 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
The debate concerning the viability of f(R)-gravity as a natural extension of General Relativity could be realistically addressed by using results coming from binary pulsars like PSR 1913+16. To this end, we develop a quadrupolar approach to the gravitational radiation for a class of ana- lytic f(R)-models. We show that experimental results are compatible with a consistent range of f(R)-models. This means that f(R)-gravity is not ruled out by the observations and gravitational radiation (in strong field regime) could be a test-bed for such theories.
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@article{arxiv.1104.1942,
title = {Quadrupolar gravitational radiation as a test-bed for f(R)-gravity},
author = {Mariafelicia De Laurentis and Salvatore Capozziello},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.1942},
year = {2014}
}
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13 pages, 1 figure