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[abridged] The detection of gravitational waves from extreme-mass-ratio (EMRI) binaries, comprising a stellar-mass compact object orbiting around a massive black hole, is one of the main targets for low-frequency gravitational-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-09 Priscilla Canizares , Jonathan R. Gair , Carlos F. Sopuerta

Gravitational-wave observations provide a unique opportunity to test general relativity (GR) in the strong-field and highly dynamical regime of the theory. Parametrized tests of GR are one well-known approach for quantifying violations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-08 Pankaj Saini , Marc Favata , K. G. Arun

A compact binary in an eccentric orbit radiates gravitational waves (GWs) at all integer harmonics of its orbital frequency. In this study, we investigate the effect of orbital eccentricity on the expected gravitational background radiation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Motohiro Enoki , Masahiro Nagashima

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 observations of coalescing binary systems allow for novel tests of the strong-field regime of gravity. Using data from the Gravitational Wave Open Science Center (GWOSC) of the LIGO and Virgo detectors, we place the first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-03 Noah Sennett , Richard Brito , Alessandra Buonanno , Victor Gorbenko , Leonardo Senatore

The population of stellar-mass, compact object binaries that merge with non-negligible eccentricity may be large enough to motivate searches with ground-based gravitational wave detectors. Such events could be exceptional laboratories to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-11 Nicholas Loutrel , Nicolas Yunes , Frans Pretorius

Higher-derivative modifications of general relativity are generically expected from effective field theory approaches to quantum gravity, and they arise naturally in Lorentz-violating theories such as Einstein-Ether gravity. In this work,…

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In the 2030s, space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors will exhibit unprecedented sensitivity in the millihertz frequency band, greatly expanding the potential for testing theories of gravity compared to ground-based GW detectors.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-16 Weilong Luo , Chang Liu , Zong-Kuan Guo

Gravity theories that modify General Relativity in the slow-motion regime can introduce nonperturbative corrections to the stochastic gravitational-wave background~(SGWB) from supermassive black-hole binaries in the nano-Hertz band, while…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-08 Enrico Cannizzaro , Gabriele Franciolini , Paolo Pani

The prospect of unprecedented high-quality data of gravitational waves in the upcoming decades demands a theoretical effort to optimally study and analyze the signals that next generation detectors will provide. Here we study the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-08 Mikel Martin Barandiaran , Sachiko Kuroyanagi , Savvas Nesseris

Gravitational wave interferometers have studied compact object mergers and solidified our understanding of strong gravity. Their increasing precision raises the possibility of detecting new physics, especially in a neutron star binary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-09 Ian Harris , Yonatan Kahn

Testing deviation of GR is one of the main goals of the proposed {\emph{Laser Interferometer Space Antenna}}, a space-based gravitational-wave observatory. For the first time, we consistently compute the generation of gravitational waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Nicolas Yunes , C. F. Sopuerta

Standardizing the definition of eccentricity is necessary for unambiguous inference of the orbital eccentricity of compact binaries from gravitational wave observations. In previous works, we proposed a definition of eccentricity for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-30 Md Arif Shaikh , Vijay Varma , Antoni Ramos-Buades , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Michael Boyle , Lawrence E. Kidder , Mark A. Scheel

Spaceborne gravitational-wave (GW) detectors observing at milli-Hz and deci-Hz frequencies are expected to detect large numbers of quasi-monochromatic signals. The first and second time-derivative of the GW frequency ($\dot f_0$ and $\ddot…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-12 R. Barbieri , S. Savastano , L. Speri , A. Antonelli , L. Sberna , O. Burke , J. R. Gair , N. Tamanini

The gravitational-wave (GW) detections reported by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration have so far been consistent with quasi-circular compact binary coalescences (CBCs). Nevertheless, a small fraction of binaries driven to merge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-02 Priscilla Canizares , Seppe J. Staelens , Isobel Romero-Shaw

Gravitational waves (GW) from eccentric binaries have intricate signals encoding important features about the location, creation and evolution of the sources. Eccentricity shortens the merger time, making the emitted GW statistically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-13 Dillon Buskirk , Maria C. Babiuc Hamilton

Dynamical Chern-Simons (DCS) gravity, a typical parity-violating gravitational theory, modifies both the generation and propagation of gravitational waves from general relativity (GR). In this work, we derive the gravitational waveform…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-24 Zhao Li , Jin Qiao , Tan Liu , Rui Niu , Shaoqi Hou , Tao Zhu , Wen Zhao

Effective field theory methods allow us to modify general relativity through higher-curvature corrections to the Einstein-Hilbert action, while preserving Lorentz invariance and the number of gravitational degrees of freedom. We here…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-18 Haoyang Liu , Nicolás Yunes

Analytic modeling of gravitational waves from inspiraling eccentric binaries poses an interesting mathematical challenge. When constructing analytic waveforms in the frequency domain, one has to contend with the fact that the phase of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-04 Nicholas Loutrel

Astrophysical population simulations predict that a subset of dynamically formed binary black holes (BBHs) may possess eccentricity $\gtrsim 0.1$ at a gravitational wave (GW) frequency of $10 \,\text{Hz}$. Presently, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-31 Sajad A. Bhat , Pankaj Saini , Marc Favata , Chinmay Gandevikar , Chandra Kant Mishra , K. G. Arun