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It has been shown in the literature that detections of gravitational waves (GWs) emitted by binary sources can provide measurements of luminosity distance. The events followed by electromagnetic counterparts are, then, suitable for probing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-16 Isabela S. Matos

Standard sirens (SS) are the gravitational wave analog of the astronomical standard candles, and can provide powerful information about the dynamics of the Universe up to very high $z$ values. In this work, we generate three mock SS…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 Alireza Allahyari , Rafael C. Nunes , David F. Mota

Gravitational waves (GWs) are direct probes of cosmological gravity, sensitive to space-time inhomogeneities along their propagation. The presence of massive objects breaks homogeneity and isotropy, allowing for new interactions between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-12 Nicola Menadeo , Serena Giardino , Miguel Zumalacárregui

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

We investigate the synergy between large-scale structure (LSS) observations and gravitational wave (GW) events for testing modified gravity. In particular, we forecast the LSS $\times$ GW cross-correlation signal using Stage-IV LSS surveys,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-21 Chiara De Leo , Guadalupe Cañas-Herrera , Anna Balaudo , Matteo Martinelli , Alessandra Silvestri , Tessa Baker

The nature of gravity can be tested by how gravitational waves (GWs) are emitted, detected, and propagate through the universe. Propagation tests are powerful, as small deviations compound over cosmological distances. However, GW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-03 Nicola Menadeo , Miguel Zumalacárregui

Gravitational Wave (GW) observations of coalescing compact binaries will be unique probes of strong-field, dynamical aspects of relativistic gravity. We present a short review of various schemes proposed in the literature to test General…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 K G Arun , Archana Pai

In this paper we analyze the implications of gravitational waves (GWs) as standard sirens on the modified gravity models by using the third-generation gravitational wave detector, i.e., the Einstein Telescope. Two viable models in $f(R)$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-05 Yu Pan , Yuan He , JingZhao Qi , Jin Li , Shuo Cao , Tonghua Liu , Jun Wang

Modified theories of gravity predict deviations from General Relativity (GR) in the propagation of gravitational waves (GW) across cosmological distances. A key prediction is that the GW luminosity distance will vary with redshift,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-12 Samsuzzaman Afroz , Suvodip Mukherjee

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

A broad class of modified gravities can result in a modified friction effect in the propagation of gravitational waves (GWs). This effect changes the amplitude-damping rate of GWs during their propagation in the cosmological distance and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-17 Chunbo Lin , Tao Zhu , Rui Niu , Wen Zhao

Gravitational-wave sources can serve as standard sirens to probe cosmology by measuring their luminosity distance and redshift. Such standard sirens are also useful to probe theories beyond general relativity with a modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-30 Nan Jiang , Kent Yagi

General Relativity (GR) is consistent with a wide range of experiments/observations from millimeter scales up to galactic scales and beyond. However, there are reasons to believe that GR may need to be modified because it includes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-17 Leandros Perivolaropoulos , Lavrentios Kazantzidis

In a modified gravity theory, the propagation equation of gravitational waves will be presented in a non-standard way. Therefore this tenor mode perturbation of time-space, as a complement to the scalar mode perturbation, provides a unique…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Lixin Xu

We present the first joint gravitational-wave cosmological inference with LISA extreme mass-ratio inspirals at $z\lesssim1$ (galaxy redshifts) and massive black hole binaries at $z\gtrsim1$ (electromagnetic counterparts). Combining these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-26 Danny Laghi , Nicola Tamanini , Alberto Sesana , Jonathan Gair , Enrico Barausse , Chiara Caprini , Walter Del Pozzo , Alberto Mangiagli , Sylvain Marsat

This review explores modified theories of gravity, particularly $f(R)$ gravity, as extensions to General Relativity (GR) that offer alternatives to dark energy for explaining cosmic acceleration. These models generalize the Einstein-Hilbert…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-05 Rafid H. Dejrah

Gravitational wave (GW) astronomy opens a new venue to explore the universe. Future observatories such as LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, are expected to observe previously undetectable fundamental physics effects in signals…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-21 Adrien Cogez , Silvia Gasparotto , Jann Zosso , Henri Inchauspé , Chantal Pitte , Lorena Magaña Zertuche , Antoine Petiteau , Marc Besancon

The direct detection of gravitational waves by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration has opened a new window with which to measure cosmological parameters such as the Hubble constant $H_0$, and also probe general relativity on large scales. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-14 S. Mastrogiovanni , D. Steer , M. Barsuglia

Modified gravity (MG) theories predict, in general, that the ratio of gravitational wave (GW) to electromagnetic (EM) luminosity distances, $\Xi$, differs from its general relativity (GR) value of unity at cosmological scales, thus…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-28 Isabela S. Matos , Maurício O. Calvão , Ioav Waga

We analyze the propagation of high-frequency gravitational waves (GW) in scalar-tensor theories of gravity, with the aim of examining properties of cosmological distances as inferred from GW measurements. By using symmetry principles, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-07 Gianmassimo Tasinato , Alice Garoffolo , Daniele Bertacca , Sabino Matarrese