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A mild version of the weak gravity conjecture (WGC) states that extremal black holes have charge-to-mass ratio larger or equal than one when higher-curvature interactions are taken into account. Since these corrections become more relevant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Pablo A. Cano , Tomas Ortin , Pedro F. Ramirez

We revisit the four-dimensional theory of gravity that arises from string theory with higher-derivative corrections. By compactifying and truncating the ten-dimensional effective action of heterotic string theory at first order in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-23 Pablo A. Cano , Alejandro Ruipérez

We study isolated and binary neutron stars in dynamical Chern-Simons gravity. This theory modifies the Einstein-Hilbert action through the introduction of a dynamical scalar field coupled to the Pontryagin density. We here treat this theory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-13 Kent Yagi , Leo C. Stein , Nicolas Yunes , Takahiro Tanaka

We pioneer the black hole mass gap as a powerful new tool for constraining modified gravity theories. These theories predict fifth forces that alter the structure and evolution of population-III stars, exacerbating the pair-instability.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-16 Maria C. Straight , Jeremy Sakstein , Eric J. Baxter

Testing general relativity in the non-linear, dynamical, strong-field regime of gravity is one of the major goals of gravitational wave astrophysics. Performing precision tests of general relativity (GR) requires numerical inspiral, merger,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-21 Maria Okounkova , Leo C. Stein , Mark A. Scheel , Daniel A. Hemberger

Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals, in which a stellar-mass object orbits a supermassive black hole, are prime sources of millihertz gravitational waves for upcoming space-based detectors. While most studies assume idealized vacuum backgrounds,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-18 Kyriakos Destounis , Pedro G. S. Fernandes

The holographic duality can be extended to include quantum theories with broken coordinate invariance leading to the appearance of the gravitational anomalies. On the gravity side one adds the gravitational Chern-Simons term to the bulk…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Sergey N. Solodukhin

Chern-Simons gravitational theories are extensions of general relativity in which the parity is violated due to the Chern-Simons term. We study linear perturbations on the static and spherically symmetric background spacetime both for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-15 Hayato Motohashi , Teruaki Suyama

General Relativity (GR) describes gravitation well at the energy scales which we have so far been able to achieve or detect. However, we do not know whether GR is behind the physics governing stronger gravitational field regimes, such as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-09-13 Priscilla Canizares , Jonathan R. Gair , Carlos F. Sopuerta

The stability of Reissner-N\"ordstrom black holes with an extremal mass-charge relation was determined by calculating the propagation speed of gravitational waves on this background in an effective field theory (EFT) of gravity. New results…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-12 Miguel Barroso Varela , Hugo Rauch

Binary black hole mergers with asymmetric component masses are key targets for both third-generation ground-based and future space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors, offering unique access to the strong-field dynamics of gravity. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-17 Daiki Watarai , Kent Yagi , Shammi Tahura

We examine a loop quantum gravity (LQG) inspired rotating black hole, treating it as a central supermassive black hole (SMBH) in an extreme mass-ratio inspiral (EMRI) system, where an inspiralling object exhibits eccentric motion around the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-20 Tieguang Zi , Shailesh Kumar

Among various strong-curvature extensions to General Relativity, Einstein-Dilaton-Gauss-Bonnet gravity stands out as the only nontrivial theory containing quadratic curvature corrections while being free from the Ostrogradsky instability to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-05 Andrea Maselli , Paolo Pani , Leonardo Gualtieri , Valeria Ferrari

Four-dimensional homogeneous static and rotating black strings in dynamical Chern-Simons modified gravity, with and without torsion, are presented. Each solution is supported by a scalar field that depends linearly on the coordinate that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-16 Adolfo Cisterna , Cristóbal Corral , Simón del Pino

We compute the most general leading-order correction to Kerr solution when the Einstein-Hilbert action is supplemented with higher-derivative terms, including the possibility of dynamical couplings controlled by scalars. The model we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-06 Pablo A. Cano , Alejandro Ruipérez

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), namely binary systems composed of a massive black hole and a compact stellar-mass object, are anticipated to be among the gravitational wave (GW) sources detected by the Laser Interferometer Space…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-23 Chang Liu , Danny Laghi , Nicola Tamanini

We consider some general consequences of adding pure gravitational Chern-Simons term to manifestly diff-covariant theories of gravity. Extending the result of a previous paper we enlarge the class of metrics for which the inclusion of a gCS…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Loriano Bonora , Maro Cvitan , Predrag Dominis Prester , Silvio Pallua , Ivica Smolic

We improve the numerical kludge waveform model introduced in [1] in two ways. We extend the equations of motion for spinning black hole binaries derived by Saijo et al. [2] using spin-orbit and spin-spin couplings taken from perturbative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-03-20 E. A. Huerta , Jonathan R. Gair , Duncan A. Brown

We extend the work of Ryan on mapping the spacetime of the central object of an extreme mass-ratio inspiral (EMRI) by using gravitational waves (GWs) emitted by the system, which may be observed in future missions such as LISA. Whether the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-12 Sayak Datta , Sukanta Bose

This work elaborates on a detailed analysis of the novel characteristics of gravitational waves (GWs) generated by extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) within the framework of modified gravity (MOG). Our study begins by exploring the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-20 Xiongying Qiao , Zhong-Wu Xia , Qiyuan Pan , Hong Guo , Wei-Liang Qian , Jiliang Jing