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Scalar-tensor gravity, with the screening mechanisms to avoid the severe constraints of the fifth force in the Solar System, can be described with a unified theoretical framework, the so-called screened modified gravity (SMG). Within this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-31 Tan Liu , Xing Zhang , Wen Zhao , Kai Lin , Chao Zhang , Shaojun Zhang , Xiang Zhao , Tao Zhu , Anzhong Wang

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

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), namely binary systems composed of a massive black hole and a compact stellar-mass object, are anticipated to be among the gravitational wave (GW) sources detected by the Laser Interferometer Space…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-23 Chang Liu , Danny Laghi , Nicola Tamanini

The Einstein-dilaton-Gauss-Bonnet (EdGB) theory is a modified theory of gravity which include a scalar field to couple with the higher order curvature terms. It has already been constrained with various observations include the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-25 Jing Tan , Jian-dong Zhang , Hui-Min Fan , Jianwei Mei

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

Screened modified gravity (SMG) and Brans-Dicke (BD) gravity are typical examples of scalar-tensor theories with and without screening mechanisms, which can suppress the scalar field in dense regions. In this paper, we investigate the tests…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-22 Xing Zhang , Rui Niu , Wen Zhao

Screened modified gravity (SMG) is a kind of scalar-tensor theory with screening mechanisms, which can suppress the fifth force in dense regions and allow theories to evade the solar system and laboratory tests. In this paper, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-23 Xing Zhang , Tan Liu , Wen Zhao

The propagation of gravitational waves (GWs) at cosmological distances offers a new way to test the gravitational interaction at the largest scales. Many modified theories of gravity, usually introduced to explain the observed acceleration…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-13 Maxence Corman , Abhirup Ghosh , Celia Escamilla-Rivera , Martin A. Hendry , Sylvain Marsat , Nicola Tamanini

Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) are one of the most promising sources of gravitational waves (GWs) for space-based detectors like the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). EMRIs consist of a compact stellar object orbiting around…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-06-05 Priscilla Canizares , Jonathan R. Gair , Carlos F. Sopuerta

[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

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

The future ground- and space-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors offer unprecedented opportunities to test general relativity (GR) with greater precision. In this work, we investigate the capability of future ground-based GW detectors,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-18 Bo-Yang Zhang , Tao Zhu , Jian-Ming Yan , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Strong gravitational lensing by galaxies provides us with a unique opportunity to understand the nature of gravity on galactic and extra-galactic scales. In this paper, we propose a new multimessenger approach using data from both…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 Tao Yang , Bin Hu , Rong-Gen Cai , Bin Wang

In this proceedings, we are interested in dark gravitational wave standard sirens and their use for cosmology and for constraining modified gravity theories. Due to the extra friction term introduced in their propagation equation those…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-15 Konstantin Leyde , Simone Mastrogiovanni , Danièle A. Steer , Eric Chassande-Mottin , Christos Karathanasis

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) standard sirens are well-established probes with which one can measure cosmological parameters, and are complementary to other probes like the cosmic microwave background or supernovae standard candles. Here we focus…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-15 Konstantin Leyde , Simone Mastrogiovanni , Danièle A. Steer , Eric Chassande-Mottin , Christos Karathanasis

We study how well the mass of the graviton can be constrained from gravitational-wave (GW) observations of coalescing binary black holes. Whereas the previous investigations employed post-Newtonian (PN) templates describing only the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-24 Drew Keppel , P. Ajith

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

The Advanced LIGO and Virgo collaborations recently detected a gravitational wave event, GW230529\_181500, during the fourth observing run, which is most plausibly attributed to the merger of a neutron star and a black hole. This…

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