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We propose a hierarchical approach to testing general relativity with multiple gravitational wave detections. Unlike existing strategies, our method does not assume that parameters quantifying deviations from general relativity are either…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-25 Maximiliano Isi , Katerina Chatziioannou , Will M. Farr

To enable detection and maximise the physics output of gravitational wave observations from compact binary systems, it is crucial the availability of accurate waveform models. The present work aims at giving an overview for non-experts of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-22 Soichiro Isoyama , Riccardo Sturani , Hiroyuki Nakano

Teleparallel theory of gravity and its modifications have been studied extensively in literature. However, gravitational waves has not been studied enough in the framework of teleparallelism. In the present study, we discuss gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-04 Habib Abedi , Salvatore Capozziello

A stellar-mass compact object spiraling into a supermassive black hole, an extreme-mass-ratio inspiral (EMRI), is one of the targets of future gravitational-wave detectors and it offers a unique opportunity to test General Relativity (GR)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-07 Nicolas Yunes , Paolo Pani , Vitor Cardoso

We use the optimised skew-spectrum as well as the skew-spectra associated with the Minkowski Functionals (MFs) to test the possibility of using the cross-correlation of the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect (ISW) and lensing of the cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 D. Munshi , B. Hu , A. Renzi , A. Heavens , P. Coles

Gravitational wave (GW) observations of binary black hole (BBH) coalescences provide a unique opportunity to test general relativity (GR) in the strong-field regime. To ensure the reliability of these tests, it is essential to identify and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-06 Purnima Narayan , Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel , Anuradha Gupta

We constrain the parameterized post-Einsteinian framework with binary pulsar observations of orbital period decay due to gravitational wave emission. This framework proposes to enhance the amplitude and phase of gravitational waveform…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-11 Nicolas Yunes , Scott A. Hughes

Gravitational waves (GWs) provide a new avenue to test Einstein's General Relativity (GR) using the ongoing and upcoming GW detectors by measuring the redshift evolution of the effective Planck mass proposed by several modified theories of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-05 Samsuzzaman Afroz , Suvodip Mukherjee

In a modified gravity theory, the propagation equation of gravitational waves will be presented in a non-standard way. Therefore this tenor mode perturbation of time-space, as a complement to the scalar mode perturbation, provides a unique…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Lixin Xu

We study how well the mass of the graviton can be constrained from gravitational-wave (GW) observations of coalescing binary black holes. Whereas the previous investigations employed post-Newtonian (PN) templates describing only the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-24 Drew Keppel , P. Ajith

A successful measurement of the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB) in Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) would open up a new window through which to test the predictions of General Relativity (GR). We consider how these measurements…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-29 Qiuyue Liang , Meng-Xiang Lin , Mark Trodden

We analyze the polarization content of gravitational waves in Horndeski theory. Besides the familiar plus and cross polarizations in Einstein's General Relativity, there is one more polarization state which is the mixture of the transverse…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-15 Shaoqi Hou , Yungui Gong , Yunqi Liu

In a recent paper [1], it was introduced a new class of gravitational theories with two local degrees of freedom. The existence of these theories apparently challenges the distinctive role of general relativity as the unique non-linear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-30 Raúl Carballo-Rubio , Francesco Di Filippo , Stefano Liberati

A frequentist asymptotic expansion method for error estimation is employed for a network of gravitational wave detectors to assess the amount of information that can be extracted from gravitational wave observations. Mathematically we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-22 Rhondale Tso , Michele Zanolin

Gravitational wave signals from compact binary coalescences offer a powerful and reliable probe of General Relativity. To date, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration has provided stringent consistency tests of General Relativity predictions.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-12 Andrea Begnoni , Walter Del Pozzo , Matteo Pegorin , Joachim Pomper , Angelo Ricciardone

In a general metric theory of gravitation in four dimensions, six polarizations of a gravitational wave are allowed: two scalar and two vector modes, in addition to two tensor modes in general relativity. Such additional polarization modes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Atsushi Nishizawa , Atsushi Taruya , Kazuhiro Hayama , Seiji Kawamura , Masa-aki Sakagami

Extreme-mass-ratio-inspiral observations from future space-based gravitational-wave detectors such as LISA will enable strong-field tests of general relativity with unprecedented precision, but at prohibitive computational cost if existing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-07 Alvin J. K. Chua , Sonke Hee , Will J. Handley , Edward Higson , Christopher J. Moore , Jonathan R. Gair , Michael P. Hobson , Anthony N. Lasenby

Space-based gravitational-wave detectors consist of a triangle of three spacecraft, which makes it possible to detect polarization modes of gravitational waves due to the motion of the detectors in space. In this paper we explore the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-24 Chang Liu , Wen-Hong Ruan , Zong-Kuan Guo

Strong gravitational lensing produces multiple images of a gravitational wave (GW) signal, which can be observed by detectors as time-separated copies of the same event. It has been shown that under favourable circumstances, by combining…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-04 Harsh Narola , Justin Janquart , Leïla Haegel , K. Haris , Otto A. Hannuksela , Chris Van Den Broeck