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Several recent studies have shown that very wide binary stars can potentially provide an interesting test for modified-gravity theories which attempt to emulate dark matter; these systems should be almost Newtonian according to standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Charalambos Pittordis , Will Sutherland

We study the effects of a beyond-Horndeski theory of modified gravity in the interior of a population II star. We consider a simple phenomenological model of a $1.1M_{\odot}$ star that has left the main sequence, has a thin Hydrogen burning…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-26 Shaswata Chowdhury , Tapobrata Sarkar

This study explores the behavior of compact stars within the framework of $f(R,L_m,T)$ gravity, focusing on the functional form $f(R,L_m,T) = R + \alpha TL_m$. The modified Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff (TOV) equations are derived and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-09 Clésio E. Mota , Juan M. Z. Pretel , César O. V. Flores

Combining the GW observations of merging systems of binary neutron stars and quasi-universal relations, we set constraints on the maximum mass that can be attained by nonrotating stellar models of neutron stars. More specifically,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-06 Luciano Rezzolla , Elias R. Most , Lukas R. Weih

The nature of gravitational waves in a generalized gravitation theory is investigated. The linearized field equations and the metric tensor quadrupole moment power and the decrease in radius of an inspiralling binary system of two compact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-17 J. W. Moffat

We perform a test of John Moffat's Modified Gravity theory (MOG) within the Milky Way, adopting the well known "Rotation Curve" method. We use the dynamics of observed tracers within the disk to determine the gravitational potential as a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-10 Carolina Negrelli , Maria Benito , Susana Landau , Fabio Iocco , Lucila Kraiselburd

The post-merger product of the first binary neutron star merger event detected in gravitational waves, GW170817, depends on neutron star equation of state (EoS) and is not well determined. We generally discuss the constraints one may pose…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-06 Shunke Ai , He Gao , Bing Zhang

The secondary component of GW190814 with a mass of 2.50-2.67 $M_{\odot}$ may be the lightest black hole or the heaviest neutron star ever observed in a binary compact object system. To explore the possible equation of state (EOS), which can…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-07-21 Xuhao Wu , Shishao Bao , Hong Shen , Renxin Xu

Motivated by the recent discovery of a compact object with mass in the range $2.5{-}2.67\, \mathrm{M}_\odot$ in the binary merger GW190814, we revisit the question of the maximum mass of neutron stars (NSs). We use a Markov Chain Monte…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-22 Daniel A. Godzieba , David Radice , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

The standard LambdaCDM model based on General Relativity (GR) including cold dark matter (CDM) is very successful at fitting cosmological observations, but recent non-detections of candidate dark matter (DM) particles mean that various…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-09 Charalambos Pittordis , Will Sutherland

Although gravitational-wave signals from exceptional low-mass compact binary coalescences, like GW170817, may carry matter signatures that differentiate the source from a binary black hole system, only one out of every eight events detected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-02 Reed Essick , Philippe Landry

An important piece of evidence for dark matter is the need to explain the growth of structure from the time of horizon entry and radiation-matter equality to the formation of stars and galaxies. This cannot be explained by using general…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-04 J. W. Moffat

Recent observations by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed the presence of bright and well-formed galaxies at high redshifts, challenging the predictions of the standard Lambda-Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) cosmological model.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-05 J. W. Moffat

We investigate how gravitational wave (GW) observations can probe the internal physics of neutron stars by extending the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff framework to include pressure anisotropy and internal magnetic fields. Two representative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-04 Zhao-Wei Du , Xi-Long Fan

The constancy of the gravitational constant $G$ is a cornerstone of the strong equivalence principle and of general relativity, yet its possible temporal variation remains a key target in tests of fundamental physics. Gravitational-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-27 Jie Zhu , Hanlin Song , Zhenwei Lyu , Hao Li , Peixiang Ji , Jun-Chen Wang , Haobo Yan , Bo-Qiang Ma

In this paper, we focus on the effect of mass-transfer between compact binaries like neutron-star-neutron-star (NS-NS) systems and neutron-star-white-dwarf (NS-WD) systems on gravitational waves (GWs). We adopt the mass quadrupole formula…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-14 Zi-han Zhang , Bin Liu , Sheng-hua Yu , Jie Yang

We discuss neutron stars with strong magnetic mean fields in the framework of Extended Theories of Gravity. In particular, we take into account models derived from $f(R)$ and $f(\cal G)$ extensions of General Relativity where functions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Artyom V. Astashenok , Salvatore Capozziello , Sergei D. Odintsov

General Relativity (GR) was proven via the direct detection of gravitational waves from the mergers of the binary black holes and binary neutron stars by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors. These detections confirmed the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-18 S. Shankaranarayanan , Joseph P Johnson

In this Letter we constrain for the first time both cosmology and modified gravity theories conjointly, by combining the GW and electromagnetic observations of GW170817. We provide joint posterior distributions for the Hubble constant…

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

We have analyzed in this work the updated sample of neutron star masses derived from the study of a variety of 96 binary systems containing at least one neutron star using Bayesian methods. After updating the multimodality of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-20 L. S. Rocha , R. R. A. Bachega , J. E. Horvath , P. H. R. S. Moraes