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The general relativistic treatment of gravitation can be extended by preserving the geometrical nature of the theory but modifying the form of the coupling between curvature and stress tensors. The gravitation constant is thus replaced by…

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Observations of astrophysical binaries may reveal departures from pure Keplerian orbits due to environmental influences, modifications to the underlying gravitational dynamics, or signatures of new physics. In this work, we develop a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-13 Rajes Ghosh , R. Prasad , Kabir Chakravarti , Prayush Kumar

In some modified theories of gravity, gravitational waves can contain up to six different polarizations, which can travel at speeds different from that of light. Searches for these different polarizations in gravitational wave data are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-21 Kristen Schumacher , Nicolas Yunes , Kent Yagi

Gravitational waves emitted by black hole binary inspiral and mergers enable unprecedented strong-field tests of gravity, requiring accurate theoretical modelling of the expected signals in extensions of General Relativity. In this paper we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-02 Banafsheh Shiralilou , Tanja Hinderer , Samaya Nissanke , Néstor Ortiz , Helvi Witek

Extended Theories of Gravity are considered as a new approach for solving the infrared and ultraviolet scale problems of the Standard Theory of Gravity (General Relativity). Observational evidence of gravitational waves and subsequent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-16 Sourav Roy Chowdhury , Maxim Khlopov

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

The direct detection of gravitational waves (GWs) opened a new chapter in the modern cosmology to probe possible deviations from the general relativity (GR) theory. In the present work, we investigate for the first time the modified GW form…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-16 Rafael C. Nunes , Marcio E. S. Alves , Jose C. N. de Araujo

In the typical data analysis and waveform modeling of the gravitational waves (GWs) signals for binary black holes (BBHs), it is assumed to be isolate sources in the vacuum within the theory of general relativity (GR). However, various…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-25 Xulong Yuan , Jian-dong Zhang , Jianwei Mei

We investigate the gravitational waves and their properties in various modified teleparallel theories, such as $f(T), f(T,B)$ and $f(T,T_G)$ gravities. We perform the perturbation analysis both around a Minkowski background, as well as in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-21 Gabriel Farrugia , Jackson Levi Said , Viktor Gakis , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

As an extension of our previous work [J.Qiao, T.Zhu, W.Zhao & A.Wang, arXiv:1909.03815], in this article, we calculate the effects of parity violation on gravitational-wave (GW) waveforms during their propagation in the most general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-06 Wen Zhao , Tao Zhu , Jin Qiao , Anzhong Wang

Thanks to the recent discoveries of gravitational wave signals from binary black hole mergers by Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory and Advanced Virgo, the genuinely strong-field dynamics of spacetime can now be…

In the coming years, advanced gravitational wave detectors will observe signals from a large number of compact binary coalescences. The majority of these signals will be relatively weak, making the precision measurement of subtle effects,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-03 Aaron Zimmerman , Carl-Johan Haster , Katerina Chatziioannou

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

The merger phase of compact binary coalescences is the strongest gravity regime that can be observed. To test the validity of general relativity (GR) in strong gravitational fields, we propose a gravitational waveform parameterized for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-23 Daiki Watarai , Atsushi Nishizawa , Kipp Cannon

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

The examination of parity symmetry in gravitational interactions has drawn increasing attention. Although Einstein's General Relativity is parity-conserved, numerous theories of parity-violating (PV) gravity in different frameworks have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-15 Jin Qiao , Zhao Li , Tao Zhu , Ran Ji , Guoliang Li , Wen Zhao

Gravitational waves from inspiralling binaries are expected to be detected using a data analysis technique known as {\it matched filtering.} This technique is applicable whenever the form of the signal is known accurately. Though we know…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-06 B. S. Sathyaprakash

We apply common gravitational wave inference procedures on binary black hole merger waveforms beyond general relativity. We consider dynamical Chern-Simons gravity, a modified theory of gravity with origins in string theory and loop quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-02 Maria Okounkova , Maximiliano Isi , Katerina Chatziioannou , Will M. Farr

In this manuscript we review the theoretical foundations of gravitational waves in the framework of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. Following Einstein's early efforts we first derive the linearised Einstein field equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-22 Alain Dirkes

Gravitational waves from compact binary inspirals offer a new opportunity to constrain the cosmological time dependence of gravitational coupling parameters, due to the high precision of the observations themselves as well as the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-13 Oliver Pitt , Timothy Clifton