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Gravitational-wave astronomy provides a promising avenue for the discovery of new physics beyond general relativity as it probes extreme curvature and ultra-relativistic dynamics. However, in the absence of a compelling alternative to…

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In the near future, space-borne gravitational wave (GW) detector LISA can open the window of low-frequency band of GW and provide new tools to test gravity theories. In this work, we consider multi-parameter tests of GW generation and…

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The Advanced LIGO/Virgo interferometers have observed $\sim 100$ gravitational-wave transients enabling new questions to be answered about relativity, astrophysics, and cosmology. However, many of our current procedures for computing these…

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In this paper we quantify the ability of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) to test the presence of non-tensorial polarizations as well as modifications to the tensor ones in gravitational waves emitted from massive black hole…

Recent observations of gravitational waves from binary black holes and neutron stars allow us to probe the strong and dynamical field regime of gravity. On the other hand, a collective signal from many individual, unresolved sources results…

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Coalescences of binary neutron stars and/or black holes are amongst the most likely gravitational-wave signals to be observed in ground based interferometric detectors. Apart from the astrophysical importance of their detection, they will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-05-07 T. G. F. Li , W. Del Pozzo , S. Vitale , C. Van Den Broeck , M. Agathos , J. Veitch , K. Grover , T. Sidery , R. Sturani , A. Vecchio

Most current compact-binary searches and parameter-estimation pipelines evaluate the Gaussian-noise likelihood approximately using frequency-domain inner products with great success in analyzing gravitational-wave signals. This is…

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The recent discovery of a $\gamma$-ray counterpart to a gravitational wave event has put extremely stringent constraints on the speed of gravitational waves at the present epoch. In turn, these constraints place strong theoretical pressure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-14 Luca Amendola , Ignacy Sawicki , Martin Kunz , Ippocratis D. Saltas

We discuss the potential of the advanced ground-based gravitational-wave detectors such as LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA to detect generic deviations of gravitational waveforms from the predictions of general relativity. We use the parameterized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-21 Tatsuya Narikawa , Hideyuki Tagoshi

Gravitational wave observations offer unique opportunities to probe gravity in the strong and dynamical regime, which was difficult to access previously. We here review two theory-agnostic ways to carry out tests of general relativity with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-19 Zack Carson , Kent Yagi

This review is focused on tests of Einstein's theory of general relativity with gravitational waves that are detectable by ground-based interferometers and pulsar-timing experiments. Einstein's theory has been greatly constrained in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-13 Nicolas Yunes , Xavier Siemens , Kent Yagi

General Relativity is a hugely successful description of gravitation. However, both theory and observations suggest that General Relativity might have significant classical and quantum corrections in the Strong Gravity regime. Testing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-27 S. Shankaranarayanan

The upcoming gravitational wave (GW) observatory LISA will measure the parameters of sources like extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) to exquisite precision. These measurements will also be sensitive to perturbations to the vacuum,…

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Observations of gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary coalescences provide powerful tests of general relativity (GR), but systematic errors in data analysis could lead to incorrect scientific conclusions. This issue is especially…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-16 Qian Hu , John Veitch

In this paper we elaborate on earlier work by the same authors in which a novel Bayesian inference framework for testing the strong-field dynamics of General Relativity using coalescing compact binaries was proposed. Unlike methods that…

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The phase evolution of gravitational waves encodes critical information about the orbital dynamics of binary systems. In this work, we test the robustness of parameterized tests against unmodeled deviations from general relativity. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-20 Brian C. Seymour , Jacob Golomb , Yanbei Chen

Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) observations of massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) will provide long duration inspiral signals with high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) data, ideal for testing general relativity (GR) in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-12 Manuel Piarulli , Sylvain Marsat , Elise M. Sänger , Alessandra Buonanno , Jan Steinhoff , Nicola Tamanini

Gravitational wave (GW) observations provide a unique opportunity to test Einstein's General Relativity (GR) in the strong-field regime. While GR predicts only two tensor polarization modes, generic metric theories allow up to six…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 Sk Md Adil Imam , Macarena Lagos

Gravitational waves provide a unique opportunity to test gravity in the dynamical and nonlinear regime. We present a parametrized test of general relativity (GR) that introduces generic deviations to the plunge, merger and ringdown stages…

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