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Experimental discovery of the gravitomagnetic fields generated by translational and/or rotational currents of matter is one of primary goals of modern gravitational physics. The rotational (intrinsic) gravitomagnetic field of the Earth is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Sergei M. Kopeikin

We study the motion of particles in the background of a scalar-tensor theory of gravity in which the scalar field is kinetically coupled to Einstein tensor. We constrain the value of the derivative parameter $z$ through solar system tests.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-02 P. A. González , Marco Olivares , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos , Yerko Vásquez

Both classical and relativistic weak-field and slow-motion perturbations to planetary orbits can be treated as perturbative corrections to the Keplerian model. In particular, tidal forces and General Relativity (GR) induce small precession…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 G. Antoniciello , L. Borsato , G. Lacedelli , V. Nascimbeni , O. Barragán , R. Claudi

The peculiar velocity distribution of cluster member galaxies provides a powerful tool to directly investigate the gravitational potentials within galaxy clusters and to test the gravity theory on megaparsec scales. We exploit spectroscopic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-04 D. Rosselli , F. Marulli , A. Veropalumbo , A. Cimatti , L. Moscardini

We present an improved subdominant-mode amplitude (SMA) test of general relativity (GR), which probes amplitude-level deviations in the higher-order modes of gravitational-wave (GW) signals from binary black hole mergers while keeping the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-18 Ish Gupta , Purnima Narayan , Lionel London , Shubhanshu Tiwari , Bangalore Sathyaprakash

The properties of gravitational-wave (GW) propagation are modified in alternative theories of gravity and are crucial observables to test gravity at cosmological distance. The propagation speed has already been measured from GW170817 so…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-22 Atsushi Nishizawa , Shun Arai

For nearly a century, Einstein's theory of gravity has been the standard theory for describing gravitational phenomena in our universe. Along with its successes, limitations of the theory from theoretical (e.g., singularities) and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-10 Sourabh Nampalliwar

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

Based on the new developped planetary ephemerides INPOP13c, determinations of acceptable intervals of General Relativity violation in considering simultaneously the PPN parameters $\beta$, PPN $\gamma$, the flattening of the sun…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-12 A. Fienga , J. Laskar , P. Exertier , H. Manche , M. Gastineau

We review the experimental evidence for Einstein's special and general relativity. A variety of high precision null experiments verify the weak equivalence principle and local Lorentz invariance, while gravitational redshift and other clock…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Clifford M. Will

In 2000, Lamb and Reichart predicted that gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and their afterglows occur in sufficient numbers and at sufficient brightnesses at very high redshifts (z > 5) to eventually replace quasars as the preferred probe of element…

Among all the theories proposed to explain the 'anomalous' perihelion precession of Mercury's orbit announced in 1859 by Le Verrier, the general theory of relativity proposed by Einstein in November 1915, alone could calculate Mercury's…

General Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Abhijit Biswas , Krishnan R. S. Mani

We perform tests of General Relativity (GR) with gravitational waves (GWs) from the inspiral stage of compact binaries using a theory-independent framework, which adds generic phase corrections to each multipole of a GR waveform model in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-05 Ajit Kumar Mehta , Alessandra Buonanno , Roberto Cotesta , Abhirup Ghosh , Noah Sennett , Jan Steinhoff

For the last 100 years, General Relativity (GR) has taken over the gravitational theory mantle held by Newtonian Gravity for the previous 200 years. This article reviews the status of GR in terms of its self-consistency, completeness, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-03 Ivan Debono , George F. Smoot

The standard approach to test for deviations from general relativity on cosmological scales is to combine measurements of the growth rate of structure with gravitational lensing. In this study, we show that this method suffers from an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-26 Sveva Castello , Zhuangfei Wang , Lawrence Dam , Camille Bonvin , Levon Pogosian

General Relativity explains with precision the anomalous advance of the perihelion of Mercury, discovered by Le Verrier in 1859. Otherwise, diverse post-Newtonian proposals trying to solve this anomaly, introduce mathematical potentials…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Javier Bootello

Several stars orbit around a black hole candidate of mass $3.7\times 10^6$ M$_{\odot}$, in the region of the Galactic Center (GC). Looking for General Relativistic (GR) periastron shifts is limited by the existence of a stellar cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. A. Nucita , F. De Paolis , G. Ingrosso , A. Qadir , A. F. Zakharov

The geodetic VLBI technique is capable of measuring the Sun's gravity light deflection from distant radio sources around the whole sky. This light deflection is equivalent to the conventional gravitational delay used for the reduction of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-23 O. Titov

The most precise measurements are done at present by timing of radiopulsars in binary systems with two neutron stars. The timing measurements of the Taylor-Hulse pulsar B1913+16 gave the most precise results on testing of general relativity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

This short exposition starts with a brief discussion of situation before the completion of special relativity (Le Verrier's discovery of the Mercury perihelion advance anomaly, Michelson-Morley experiment, E\"otv\"os experiment, Newcomb's…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Wei-Tou Ni