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Gravitational wave observations of compact binary mergers are already providing stringent tests of general relativity and constraints on modified gravity. Ground-based interferometric detectors will soon reach design sensitivity and they…

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In this work, we investigate the impacts of the future gravitational-wave (GW) standard siren observation by the Einstein Telescope (ET) on constraining the interacting dark energy (IDE) models. We simulate 1000 GW events in the redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-23 Hai-Li Li , Dong-Ze He , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Detection of gravitational waves produced by merger of binary compact objects could provide an independent way for measuring the luminosity distance to the gravitational-wave burst source, indicating that gravitational-wave observation,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-15 Xuan-Neng Zhang , Ling-Feng Wang , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

We consider the observation of stellar-mass black holes binaries with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Preliminary results based on Fisher information matrix analyses have suggested that gravitational waves from those sources…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-07 Alexandre Toubiana , Sylvain Marsat , Enrico Barausse , Stanislav Babak , John Baker

Certain alternative theories of gravity predict that gravitational waves will disperse as they travel from the source to the observer. The recent binary black hole observations by Advanced-LIGO have set limits on a modified dispersion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-05 Anuradha Samajdar , K. G. Arun

Einstein's General Theory of Relativity predicted the existence of gravitational waves (GWs), which offer a way to explore cosmic events like binary mergers and could help resolve the Hubble Tension. The Hubble Tension refers to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-07 Rishav Laloo , Prachi Gupta , Arun Kenath

We discuss a modified gravity model which fits cosmological observations at a level statistically indistinguishable from $\Lambda$CDM and at the same time predicts very large deviations from General Relativity (GR) in the propagation of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-27 Enis Belgacem , Yves Dirian , Andreas Finke , Stefano Foffa , Michele Maggiore

Dimensional flow, the scale dependence of the dimensionality of spacetime, is a feature shared by many theories of quantum gravity (QG). We present the first study of the consequences of QG dimensional flow for the luminosity distance…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-14 Gianluca Calcagni , Sachiko Kuroyanagi , Sylvain Marsat , Mairi Sakellariadou , Nicola Tamanini , Gianmassimo Tasinato

[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

Precise measurement of the Hubble parameter will enable stringent tests of the standard model for cosmology. Standard sirens, using the luminosity distances measured by gravitational-wave observations of compact binary mergers, are expected…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-06 Alberto Salvarese , Hsin-Yu Chen , Alberto Mangiagli , Nicola Tamanini

A novel constraint on $f(R)$ theories of gravity is obtained from the gravitational wave signal emitted from the binary neutron star merger event GW170817. The $f(R)$ theories possess an additional massive scalar degree of freedom apart…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-04 Soumya Jana , Subhendra Mohanty

Inspiraling binaries of compact objects are primary targets for current and future gravitational-wave observatories. Waveforms computed in General Relativity are used to search for these sources, and will probably be used to extract source…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Michele Vallisneri , Nicolas Yunes

Gravitational waves have been shown to provide new constraints on gravitational theories beyond general relativity (GR), especially in the strong field regime. Gravitational wave signals from galactic double white dwarfs, expected to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-27 Shu Yan Lau , Kent Yagi , Phil Arras

Gravitational waves (GWs) provide a new avenue to test Einstein's General Relativity (GR) using the ongoing and upcoming GW detectors by measuring the redshift evolution of the effective Planck mass proposed by several modified theories of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-05 Samsuzzaman Afroz , Suvodip Mukherjee

Forecast constraints for a Symmetric Teleparallel Gravity model with a $\Lambda$CDM background are made using forthcoming ground and space based gravitational waves observatories. A Bayesian analysis resorting to generated mock catalogs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-20 José Ferreira , Tiago Barreiro , José Mimoso , Nelson J. Nunes

LISA and Taiji are expected to form a space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detection network in the future. In this work, we make a forecast for the cosmological parameter estimation with the standard siren observation from the LISA-Taiji…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-12 Ling-Feng Wang , Shang-Jie Jin , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Gravitational waves (GWs) from merging compact objects encode direct information about the luminosity distance to the binary. When paired with a redshift measurement, this enables standard-siren cosmology: a Hubble diagram can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-26 Amanda M. Farah , Thomas A. Callister , Jose María Ezquiaga , Michael Zevin , Daniel E. Holz

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

We propose a method based on the process of extracting gravitational wave (GW) parameters from GW signals to simulate the binary neutron-star (BNS) merging events. We simulate 1000 GW standard sirens based on the observation of the Einstein…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-18 Dong Zhao , Zhi-Chao Zhao , Jun-Qing Xia

The recently reported gravitational wave events GW$150914$ and GW$151226$ caused by the mergers of binary black holes [arXiv:1602.03841],[arXiv:1606.04855],[arXiv:1606.04856] provide a formidable way to set constraints on alternative metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-01 Mariafelicia De Laurentis , Oliver Porth , Luke Bovard , Bobomurat Ahmedov , Ahmadjon Abdujabbarov