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The Green-Schwarz anomaly-cancelling mechanism in string theories requires a Chern-Simons term in the Einstein-Hilbert action, which leads to an amplitude birefringence of spacetime for the propagation of gravitational waves. While the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-20 Stephon Alexander , Lee Samuel Finn , Nicolas Yunes

Chern-Simons (CS) modified gravity is an extension to general relativity (GR) in which the metric is coupled to a scalar field, resulting in modified Einstein field equations. In the dynamical theory, the scalar field is itself sourced by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-12-16 Yacine Ali-Haïmoud , Yanbei Chen

Within the context of a Chern-Simons running-vacuum-model (RVM) cosmology, one expects an early-matter dominated (eMD) reheating period after RVM inflation driven by the axion field. Treating thus in this work Chern-Simons RVM cosmology as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-22 Charalampos Tzerefos , Theodoros Papanikolaou , Spyros Basilakos , Emmanuel N. Saridakis , Nick E. Mavromatos

The inspiral of binary systems in vacuum is controlled by the stress-energy of gravitational radiation and any other propagating degrees of freedom. For gravitational waves, the dominant contribution is characterized by an effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-10 Leo C. Stein , Nicolas Yunes

We consider the nondynamical Chern-Simons (nCS) modified gravity, which is regarded as a parity-odd theory of massive gravity in four dimensions. We first find polarization modes of gravitational waves for $\theta=x/\mu$ in nCS modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Yun Soo Myung , Taeyoon Moon

Gravitational-wave (GW) data can be used to test general relativity in the highly nonlinear and strong field regime. Modified gravity theories such as Einstein-dilation-Gauss-Bonnet and dynamical Chern-Simons can be tested with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-14 Hai-Tian Wang , Shao-Peng Tang , Peng-Cheng Li , Ming-Zhe Han , Yi-Zhong Fan

We calculate the gravitational waveform radiated from spinning black holes (BHs) binary in dynamical Chern-Simons (dCS) gravity. The equation of motion (EOM) of the spinining binary BHs is derived based on the modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-16 Zhao Li , Jin Qiao , Tan Liu , Tao Zhu , Wen Zhao

The fundamental process of detecting and examining the polarization modes of gravitational waves plays a pivotal role in enhancing our grasp on the precise mechanisms behind their generation. A thorough investigation is essential for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-16 Shailesh Kumar , Rishabh Kumar Singh , Abhishek Chowdhuri , Arpan Bhattacharyya

Extremely large mass-ratio inspirals (XMRIs), formed by brown dwarfs inspiraling into a massive black hole, emit gravitational waves (GWs) that fall within the detection band of future space-borne detectors such as LISA, TianQin, and Taiji.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-12 Hui-Min Fan , Alejandro Torres-Orjuela , Verónica Vázquez-Aceves , Tian-Xiao Wang , Tai-Fu Feng

We study the tetrad formulation of Chern-Simons (CS) modified gravity, which adds a Pontryagin term to the Einstein-Hilbert action with a spacetime-dependent coupling field. We first verify that CS modified gravity leads to a theory with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Stephon Alexander , Nicolas Yunes

Neutron stars are sensitive laboratories for testing general relativity, especially when considering deviations where velocities are relativistic and gravitational fields are strong. One such deviation is described by dynamical,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-28 Nicolas Yunes , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Ozel , Abraham Loeb

Direct detections of gravitational waves offer a unique opportunity to test gravity in the highly dynamical and strong field regime. Current tests are typically performed assuming signals from quasicircular binaries. However, the complex…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-28 Soumen Roy , Justin Janquart

We investigate the scalar induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) in the Chern-Simons (CS) modified gravity during the radiation dominated era. The SIGWs are circularly polarized, which provide us a tool to test the possible parity violation in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-19 Fengge Zhang , Jia-Xi Feng , Xian Gao

Using gravitational wave observations to search for deviations from general relativity in the strong-gravity regime has become an important research direction. Chern Simons (CS) gravity is one of the most frequently studied parity-violating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-22 Manu Srivastava , Yanbei Chen , S. Shankaranarayanan

The recent gravitational wave observations by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration have allowed the first tests of General Relativity in the extreme gravity regime, when comparable-mass black holes and neutron stars collide. Future space-based…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-03 Alejandro Cardenas-Avendano , Andres F. Gutierrez , Leonardo A. Pachon , Nicolas Yunes

The observation of the inspiral and merger of compact binaries by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration ushered in a new era in the study of strong-field gravity. We review current and future tests of strong gravity and of the Kerr paradigm with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-06 Emanuele Berti , Kent Yagi , Nicolás Yunes

We perform the perturbation analysis of the Chern-Simons modified gravity around the AdS$_4$ spacetimes (its curvature radius $\ell$) to obtain the critical gravity. In general, we could not obtain an explicit form of perturbed Einstein…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Taeyoon Moon , Yun Soo Myung

One of the primary aims of upcoming space-borne gravitational wave detectors is to measure radiation in the mHz range from extreme-mass-ratio inspirals. Such a detection would place strong constraints on hypothetical departures from a Kerr…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-17 Kyriakos Destounis , Arthur G. Suvorov , Kostas D. Kokkotas

Gravitational wave (GW) standard sirens are well-established probes with which one can measure cosmological parameters, and are complementary to other probes like the cosmic microwave background or supernovae standard candles. Here we focus…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-15 Konstantin Leyde , Simone Mastrogiovanni , Danièle A. Steer , Eric Chassande-Mottin , Christos Karathanasis

We consider a general class of quantum gravity-inspired, modified gravity theories, where the Einstein-Hilbert action is extended through the addition of all terms quadratic in the curvature tensor coupled to scalar fields with standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-12 Kent Yagi , Leo C. Stein , Nicolas Yunes , Takahiro Tanaka