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The number of observed gravitational wave (GW) events is growing fast thanks to rapidly improving detector sensitivities. GWs from compact binary coalescences like Black Holes or Neutron Stars behave like standard sirens and can be used as…

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Harvesting the full potential of black hole spectroscopy demands realising the importance of casting constraints on modified theories of gravity in a framework as general and robust as possible. Requiring more stringent -- yet…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-12 Gregorio Carullo

One of the central challenges in modern cosmology is understanding the nature of dark energy and its evolution throughout the history of the Universe. Dark energy is commonly modeled as a perfect fluid with a time-varying equation-of-state…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-26 Samsuzzaman Afroz , Suvodip Mukherjee

Although the general theory of relativity (GR) predicts that gravitational waves (GWs) have exactly the same propagation velocity as electromagnetic (EM) waves, many theories of gravity beyond GR expect otherwise. Accurate measurement of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-06 Tian-Yong Cao , Ankit Kumar , Shu-Xu Yi

Detections of gravitational wave (GW) stimulate the discussion of how GWs propagate in the expanding Universe. General relativity predicts that GWs are massless and propagate at the speed of light with no extra friction term, which relates…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-26 S. X. Tian , Zong-Hong Zhu

Gravitational wave (GW) sources are an excellent probe of the luminosity distance and offer a novel measure of the Hubble constant, $H_0$. This estimation of $H_0$ from standard sirens requires an accurate estimation of the cosmological…

Gravitational-wave (GW) catalogs are rapidly increasing in number, allowing for robust statistical analyses of the population of compact binaries. Nonetheless, GW inference of cosmology has typically relied on additional electromagnetic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-15 Jose María Ezquiaga

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

Modified gravity theories generically predict a violation of Lorentz invariance, which may lead to a modified dispersion relation for propagating modes of gravitational waves. We construct a parametrized dispersion relation that can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-02 Saeed Mirshekari , Nicolas Yunes , Clifford M. Will

General Relativity (GR) describes gravitation well at the energy scales which we have so far been able to achieve or detect. However, we do not know whether GR is behind the physics governing stronger gravitational field regimes, such as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-09-13 Priscilla Canizares , Jonathan R. Gair , Carlos F. Sopuerta

Screening mechanisms are essential components in many modified gravity theories, which satisfy local tests of General Relativity (GR) and address cosmic acceleration on cosmological scales. The strong gravitational lensing of gravitational…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-11 Chengsheng Mu , Shuo Cao , Shuxun Tian , Xinyue Jiang , Chenfa Zheng , Dadian Cheng

When it comes to searches for extensions to general relativity, large efforts are being dedicated to accurate predictions for the power spectrum of density perturbations. While this observable is known to be sensitive to the gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 Claudio Llinares , Nuala McCullagh

We investigate possible signatures of quantum gravity which could be tested with current and future gravitational-wave (GW) observations. In particular, we analyze how quantum gravity can influence the GW luminosity distance, the time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-08 Gianluca Calcagni , Sachiko Kuroyanagi , Sylvain Marsat , Mairi Sakellariadou , Nicola Tamanini , Gianmassimo Tasinato

Any modification on gravity would affect not only gravitational wave (GW) generation but also GW propagation. Therefore, tests of general relativity (GR) with only GW generation or GW propagation will lead to an overestimate for deviations.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-22 Ke Wang

Einstein's General Theory of Relativity predicted the existence of gravitational waves (GWs), which offer a way to explore cosmic events like binary mergers and could help resolve the Hubble Tension. The Hubble Tension refers to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-07 Rishav Laloo , Prachi Gupta , Arun Kenath

In the third-generation (3G) gravitational-wave (GW) detector era, the multi-messenger GW observation for binary neutron star (BNS) merger events can exert great impacts on exploring the cosmic expansion history. In this work, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-10 Tao Han , Shang-Jie Jin , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

We analyze the features of the Minkowskian limit of a particular non-analytical f(R) model, whose Taylor expansion in the weak field limit does not hold, as far as gravitational waves (GWs) are concerned. We solve the corresponding Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-24 Donatella Fiorucci , Orchidea Maria Lecian , Giovanni Montani

New observational data, measured with a high degree of accuracy, of compact isolated neutron stars and binary stars in gravitational wave remnants have the potential to explore the strong field gravity. Within the framework of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-06 Naosad Alam , Subrata Pal , A. Rahmansyah , A. Sulaksono

Gravitational waves (GWs) from the compact binary coalescences can be used as standard sirens to explore the cosmic expansion history. In the next decades, it is anticipated that we could obtain the multi-band GW standard siren data (from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-27 Shang-Jie Jin , Shuang-Shuang Xing , Yue Shao , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary mergers have emerged as one of the most promising probes of cosmology and General Relativity (GR). However, a major challenge in fully exploiting GWs as standard sirens with current and future…

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