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Gravitational waves (GW) are generally affected by modification of a gravity theory during propagation in cosmological distance. We numerically perform a quantitative analysis on Horndeski theory at cosmological scale to constrain the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-28 Shun Arai , Atsushi Nishizawa

This paper is the third in a series of theorems which state how cosmological observations can provide evidence for an early phase of acceleration in the universe. Previous theorems demonstrated that the observed power spectrum for scalar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Ghazal Geshnizjani , William H. Kinney

In dark-energy models where a scalar field is nonminimally coupled to the spacetime geometry, gravitational waves are expected to be supplemented with a scalar mode. Such scalar waves may interact with the standard tensor waves, thereby…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-12 Charles Dalang , Pierre Fleury , Lucas Lombriser

The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) propagating through cosmic structures can provide invaluable information on the geometry and content of our Universe, as well as on the fundamental theory of gravity. In order to test possible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-25 Alice Garoffolo , Gianmassimo Tasinato , Carmelita Carbone , Daniele Bertacca , Sabino Matarrese

Gravitational waves (GWs) provide a powerful, theory-independent probe of the dynamical structure of spacetime and the cosmological background. We study linearized GW propagation in k-essence cosmology, where a non-canonical scalar field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Sougata Bhunia , Eduardo Guendelman , Debashis Gangopadhyay , Ramón Herrera , Abhijit Bhattacharyya , Goutam Manna

We revisit the status of scalar-tensor theories with applications to dark energy in the aftermath of the gravitational wave signal GW170817 and its optical counterpart GRB170817A. At the level of the cosmological background, we identify a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-20 Edmund J. Copeland , Michael Kopp , Antonio Padilla , Paul M. Saffin , Constantinos Skordis

We study the decay of gravitational waves into dark energy fluctuations $\pi$, taking into account the large occupation numbers. We describe dark energy using the effective field theory approach, in the context of generalized scalar-tensor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-31 Paolo Creminelli , Giovanni Tambalo , Filippo Vernizzi , Vicharit Yingcharoenrat

Gravitational waves (GWs) provide a new tool to probe the nature of dark energy (DE) and the fundamental properties of gravity. We review the different ways in which GWs can be used to test gravity and models for late-time cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-24 Jose María Ezquiaga , Miguel Zumalacárregui

The speed of gravitational waves provides us a new tool to test alternative theories of gravity. The constraint on the speed of gravitational waves from GW170817 and GRB170817A is used to test some classes of Horndeski theory. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-19 Yungui Gong , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos , Zhu Yi

The almost simultaneous detection of gravitational waves and a short gamma-ray burst from a neutron star merger has put a tight constraint on the difference between the speed of gravity and light. In the four-dimensional scalar-tensor…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-17 Marco Crisostomi , Kazuya Koyama

We study the decay of gravitational waves into dark energy fluctuations $\pi$, through the processes $\gamma \to \pi\pi$ and $\gamma \to \gamma \pi$, made possible by the spontaneous breaking of Lorentz invariance. Within the EFT of Dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-18 Paolo Creminelli , Matthew Lewandowski , Giovanni Tambalo , Filippo Vernizzi

The observed accelerated expansion of the Universe may be explained by dark energy or the breakdown of general relativity (GR) on cosmological scales. When the latter case, a modified gravity scenario, is considered, it is often assumed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-04 Jiro Matsumoto , Teppei Okumura , Misao Sasaki

We study the cosmological evolution of a scalar field in Horndeski gravity, assuming that the scalar field is subdominant with respect to the cosmic fluid. We first analyse the most general shift-symmetric action that respects local Lorentz…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-08 Nicola Franchini , Thomas P. Sotiriou

The detection of GW170817 and its electromagnetic counterpart has revealed the speed of gravitational waves coincides with the speed of light, $c_T=1$. Inspired by the possibility that the physics implied by GW170817 might be related with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-22 Gen Ye , Yun-Song Piao

Detection of gravitational waves produced by merger of binary compact objects could provide an independent way for measuring the luminosity distance to the gravitational-wave burst source, indicating that gravitational-wave observation,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-15 Xuan-Neng Zhang , Ling-Feng Wang , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

The coincident detection of gravitational waves (GW) and a gamma-ray burst from a merger of neutron stars has placed an extremely stringent bound on the speed of GW. We showed previously that the presence of gravitational slip ($\eta$) in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Luca Amendola , Martin Kunz , Ippocratis D. Saltas , Ignacy Sawicki

A mathematical model of the evolution of plane perturbations in the cosmological statistical system of completely degenerate scalar-charged fermions with Higgs scalar interaction for short-wave perturbations is formulated. These disturbance…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-26 Yu. G. Ignat'ev

We explore the constraints on dark sector models imposed by the recent observation of coincident gravitational waves and gamma rays from a binary neutron star merger, GW170817. Rather than focusing on specific models as has been considered…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-26 Richard A. Battye , Francesco Pace , Damien Trinh

We summarise the effective field theory of dark energy construction to explore observable predictions of linear Horndeski theories. Based on \cite{Perenon:2016blf}, we review the diagnostic of these theories on the correlation of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-14 Louis Perenon , Hermano Velten

We revisit multi-messenger constraints from neutron star mergers on the speed of propagation of gravitational and electromagnetic waves in Horndeski and beyond Horndeski theories. By considering non-trivial couplings between the dark energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-31 Eugeny Babichev , Christos Charmousis , Benjamin Muntz , Antonio Padilla , Ippocratis D. Saltas