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We study the constraints on alternative theories of gravity that can be determined by multi-band observations of gravitational wave signals emitted from binary black hole coalescences. We focus on three types of General Relativity…

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Third-generation gravitational-wave detectors will observe up to millions of merging binary black holes. With such a vast dataset, stacking events into population analyses will arguably be more important than analyzing single sources. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-14 Viola De Renzis , Francesco Iacovelli , Davide Gerosa , Michele Mancarella , Costantino Pacilio

Largely motivated by the development of highly sensitive gravitational-wave detectors, our understanding of merging compact binaries and the gravitational waves they generate has improved dramatically in recent years. Breakthroughs in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 Scott A. Hughes

With the discovery of both binary black hole mergers and a binary neutron star merger the field of Gravitational Wave Astrophysics has really begun. The current advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors are laser interferometers that will improve…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Gijs Nelemans

The detection of gravitational waves from the merger of binary black holes by the LIGO Collaboration has opened a new window to astrophysics. With the sensitivities of ground based detectors in the coming years we can only detect the local…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 Ilias Cholis

Gravitational-wave observations provide a powerful probe of compact objects and strong-field gravity. In this work, we investigate the detectability of binaries containing (sub-)solar-mass black holes and superspinars with current and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 K. S. Sruthy , N. V. Krishnendu , Chandrachur Chakraborty , Nami Uchikata

We perform tests of General Relativity (GR) with gravitational waves (GWs) from the inspiral stage of compact binaries using a theory-independent framework, which adds generic phase corrections to each multipole of a GR waveform model in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-05 Ajit Kumar Mehta , Alessandra Buonanno , Roberto Cotesta , Abhirup Ghosh , Noah Sennett , Jan Steinhoff

The observation of gravitational waves emitted during the merging phase of compact binary coalescing objects has opened a new field of investigation in fundamental physics. It is now possible to test the predictions of General Relativity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-09 Marco Danilo Claudio Torri , Fulvio Ricci , Marco Giammarchi , Lino Miramonti , Valerio Toso , Chiara Sigala

The dynamics of coalescing compact binaries can be affected by the environment in which the systems evolve, leaving detectable signatures into the emitted gravitational signal. In this paper we investigate the ability of gravitational-wave…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-06 Vitor Cardoso , Andrea Maselli

The gravitational wave signal of binary compact objects has two main contributions at frequencies below the characteristic merger frequency: the gravitational wave signal associated with the early inspiral stage of the binary and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 Silvia Gasparotto , Gabriele Franciolini , Valerie Domcke

The detection of gravitational waves has offered us the opportunity to explore the dynamical and strong-field regime of gravity. Because matched filtering is more sensitive to variations in the gravitational waveform phase than the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-01 Shammi Tahura , Kent Yagi , Zack Carson

This review is focused on tests of Einstein's theory of general relativity with gravitational waves that are detectable by ground-based interferometers and pulsar-timing experiments. Einstein's theory has been greatly constrained in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-13 Nicolas Yunes , Xavier Siemens , Kent Yagi

Recent observations of gravitational waves from binary black holes and neutron stars allow us to probe the strong and dynamical field regime of gravity. On the other hand, a collective signal from many individual, unresolved sources results…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-08 Alexander Saffer , Kent Yagi

Space-born gravitational-wave interferometers such as {\it LISA} will detect the gravitational wave (GW) signal from the inspiral, plunge and ringdown phases of massive black hole binary mergers at cosmological distances. From the inspiral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Scott A. Hughes , Kristen Menou

A preliminary discussion is given of the prospects that gravitational-wave observations of binary inspiral of black holes could reveal or constrain quantum modifications to black hole dynamics, such as are required to preserve postulates of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-08 Steven B. Giddings

In the theories with extra dimensions, gravitational waves can leak into extra dimensions, resulting in a reduction in the amplitude of the observed gravitational waves. Such an effect modifies the standard luminosity distance of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-10 Xu-Jie Zhu , Ji-Yu Song , Tao Zhu , Xin Zhang

Gravitational wave (GW) astronomy has revolutionized our capacity to explore nature. The next generation of observatories, among which the space-borne detector Laser Interferometer Space Antenna LISA, is expected to yield orders of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-06 Henri Inchauspé , Silvia Gasparotto , Diego Blas , Lavinia Heisenberg , Jann Zosso , Shubhanshu Tiwari

Gravitational waves generated by the final merger of compact binary systems depend on the structure of the binary's members. If the binary contains neutron stars, measuring such waves can teach us about the properties of matter at extreme…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Scott A. Hughes

Gravitational wave observations offer unique opportunities to probe gravity in the strong and dynamical regime, which was difficult to access previously. We here review two theory-agnostic ways to carry out tests of general relativity with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-19 Zack Carson , Kent Yagi

The advent of gravitational wave astronomy provides new proving grounds for testing theories of gravity. Recent work has reinvigorated the study of bimetric theories of gravity and massive gravity theories. One of the most interesting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-14 Jeffrey S. Hazboun , Manuel Pichardo Marcano , Shane L. Larson