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We investigate the properties of neutron stars within the framework of $f(Q)$ gravity by incorporating rotational effects through a slowly rotating metric. We derive the modified TOV equations and calculate the angular velocity profiles and…

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Many gravitational wave (GW) sources in the LISA band are expected to have non-negligible eccentricity. Furthermore, many of them can undergo acceleration because they reside in the presence of a tertiary. Here we develop analytical and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-22 Zeyuan Xuan , Smadar Naoz , Xian Chen

The observed dynamics of gas and stars on galactic and larger scales cannot be accounted for by self-gravity, indicating that there are large quantities of unseen matter, or that gravity is non-Newtonian in these regimes. Milgrom's MOdified…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 Anthony Aguirre , Joop Schaye , Eliot Quataert

Eccentricity of wide binaries is difficult to measure due to their long orbital periods. With Gaia's high-precision astrometric measurements, eccentricity of a wide binary can be constrained by the angle between the separation vector and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Hsiang-Chih Hwang , Yuan-Sen Ting , Nadia L. Zakamska

This paper introduces a possible alternative model of gravity based on the theory of fractional-dimension spaces and its applications to Newtonian gravity. In particular, Gauss's law for gravity as well as other fundamental classical laws…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-09 Gabriele U. Varieschi

A naive extension to MOND of the standard computation of the two-body relaxation time Tb implies that Tb is comparable to the crossing time regardless of the number N of stars in the system. This computation is questionable in view of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Ciotti , J. Binney

By the time, in 1937, the Swiss astronomer Zwicky measured the velocity dispersion of the Coma cluster of galaxies, astronomers somehow got acquainted with the idea that the universe is filled by some kind of dark matter. After almost a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Riccardo Scarpa

The stability of galaxies is either explained by the existence of dark matter or caused by a modification of Newtonian acceleration (MOND). Here we show that the modification of the Newtonian dynamics can equally well be obtained by a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-24 Søren Toxvaerd

We describe a method by which gravitational wave observations of eccentric binary systems could be used to test General Relativity's prediction that gravitational waves are dispersionless. We present our results in terms of the graviton…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-23 D I Jones

Anticipating the kinematic constraints from the Gaia mission, we perform an extensive numerical study of the evolution of massive binary systems to predict the peculiar velocities that stars obtain when their companion collapses and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 M. Renzo , E. Zapartas , S. E. de Mink , Y. Götberg , S. Justham , R. J. Farmer , R. G. Izzard , S. Toonen , H. Sana

We consider for the first time the implications on the modified gravity MOND model of galaxies, of the presence of dark baryons, under the form of cold molecular gas in galaxy discs. We show that MOND models of rotation curves are still…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 O. Tiret , F. Combes

Gravitational-wave observations of compact binaries have the potential to uncover the distribution of masses and angular momenta of black holes and neutron stars in the universe. The binary components' physical parameters can be inferred…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Mark Hannam , Duncan A. Brown , Stephen Fairhurst , Chris L. Fryer , Ian W. Harry

Disc galaxies represent a promising laboratory for the study of gravitational physics, including alternatives to dark matter, owing to the possibility of coupling rotation curves' dynamical data with strong gravitational lensing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-28 Christopher Harvey-Hawes , Marco Galoppo

We develop a unified framework for testing gravity beyond General Relativity (GR) with continuous gravitational waves (CWs) from individual supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs). These long-lived, nearly monochromatic nanohertz signals…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-08 Qinyuan Zheng , Bjorn Larsen , Ellis Eisenberg , Chiara M. F. Mingarelli

We use TESS full-frame imaging data to investigate the angular momentum evolution of young stars in Orion Complex. We confirm recent findings that stars with rotation periods faster than 2 d are overwhelmingly binaries, with typical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Marina Kounkel , Keivan G. Stassun , Lynne A. Hillenbrand , Jesús Hernández , Javier Serna , Jason Lee Curtis

A new class of Kuiper belt objects that lie beyond Neptune with semimajor axes greater than 250 astronomical units show orbital anomalies that have been interpreted as evidence for an undiscovered ninth planet. We show that a modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-25 Katherine Jones-Smith , Harsh Mathur

The phenomenology of modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) on galaxy scales may point to more fundamental theories of either modified gravity (MG) or modified inertia (MI). In this paper, we test the applicability of the global deep-MOND…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-22 Jonas Petersen , Federico Lelli

We present a new framework for modelling discrete kinematic data. Current techniques typically involve binning. Our approach works directly with the discrete data and uses maximum-likelihood methods to assess the probability of the dataset…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Laura L. Watkins , Glenn van de Ven , Mark den Brok , Remco C. E. van den Bosch

Galactic rotation curves are often considered the first robust evidence for the existence of dark matter. However, even in the presence of a dark matter halo, other galactic-scale observations, such as the Baryonic Tully-Fisher Relation and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-23 Mariangela Lisanti , Matthew Moschella , Nadav Joseph Outmezguine , Oren Slone

Gravitational wave (GW) observations provide insight into the gravity regime. These observations relies on the comparison of the data to the GWs model, which depends on the orbital evolution of the binary systems. In this paper, we study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-09 Xing Zhang , Wen Zhao , Tan Liu , Kai Lin , Chao Zhang , Xiang Zhao , Shaojun Zhang , Tao Zhu , Anzhong Wang