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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…

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The recent LIGO detection of gravitational waves from black-hole binaries offers the exciting possibility of testing gravitational theories in the previously inaccessible strong-field, highly relativistic regime. While the LIGO detections…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-17 Enrico Barausse

A study of binary systems composed of two point particles with different masses in the linear regime of the characteristic formulation of general relativity in a Minkowski background is provided. The present paper generalizes a previous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-21 C. E. Cedeño M. , J. C. N. de Araujo

We propose a generic, phenomenological approach to modifying the dispersion of gravitational waves, independent of corrections to the generation mechanism. This model-independent approach encapsulates all previously proposed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-31 Rhondale Tso , Maximiliano Isi , Yanbei Chen , Leo Stein

Coalescing binary black-hole systems are among the most promising sources of gravitational waves for ground-based interferometers. While the \emph{inspiral} and \emph{ring-down} stages of the binary black-hole coalescence are well-modelled…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Ajith

A generalized true anomaly-type parametrization, convenient to describe both bound and open orbits of a two-body system in general relativity is introduced. A complete description of the time evolution of both the radial and of the angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-05 János Majár , Péter Forgács , Mátyás Vasúth

On May 29, 2023, the LIGO Livingston observatory detected the gravitational-wave signal GW230529_181500 from the merger of a neutron star with a lower mass-gap compact object. Its long inspiral signal provides a unique opportunity to test…

We revisit the decay of the orbital period in binary systems that occurs due to the emission of gravitational waves in the context of modified gravity models where the coupling $G_{gw}$ between matter and on-shell gravitons is allowed to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-22 Diego Santos de Jesus , Hermano Velten , Federico Piazza

Gravitational-wave observations of compact binaries have the potential to uncover the distribution of masses and angular momenta of black holes and neutron stars in the universe. The binary components' physical parameters can be inferred…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Mark Hannam , Duncan A. Brown , Stephen Fairhurst , Chris L. Fryer , Ian W. Harry

We present a machine learning framework for testing general relativity (GR) with gravitational wave signals from binary black hole mergers. Using the source parameters of 173 BBH events from the GWTC catalog as a realistic astrophysical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-13 Lavinia Heisenberg , Shayan Hemmatyar , Hector Villarrubia-Rojo

Precision tests of general relativity can be conducted by observing binary pulsars. Theories with massive fields exist to explain a variety of phenomena from dark energy to the strong CP problem. Existing pulsar binaries, such as the white…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-11 Brian C. Seymour , Kent Yagi

In this paper, we study gravitational waves generated by binary systems within an extension of General Relativity which is described by the addition of quadratic in curvature tensor terms to the Einstein-Hilbert action. Treating quadratic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-22 Yunho Kim , Archil Kobakhidze , Zachary S. C. Picker

We compute the gravitational waves generated by compact binary systems in a class of massless scalar-tensor (ST) theories to the 1.5 post-Newtonian (1.5PN) order beyond the standard quadrupole radiation in general relativity (GR). Using and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-02 David Trestini

We compute the gravitational waves generated by compact binary systems in a class of massless scalar-tensor (ST) theories to the 1.5 post-Newtonian (1.5PN) order beyond the standard quadrupole radiation in general relativity (GR). Using and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-30 Laura Bernard , Luc Blanchet , David Trestini

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

We explore spinning, precessing, unequal mass binary black holes to display the long term orbital angular momentum, $\vec{L}$, flip dynamics. We study two prototypical cases of binaries with mass ratios $q=1/7$ and $q=1/15$ and a misaligned…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-27 Carlos O. Lousto , James Healy

General Relativity (GR) remains the most accurate theory of gravity to date. It has passed many experimental tests in the Solar System as well as binary pulsar, cosmological and gravitational-wave (GW) observations. Some of these tests…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-13 Marta Colleoni , N. V. Krishnendu , Pierre Mourier , Sayantani Bera , Xisco Jiménez-Forteza

Gravitational waves (GWs) provide an excellent opportunity to test the gravity in the strong gravitational fields. In this article, we calculate the waveform of GWs, produced by the coalescence of compact binaries, in an extension of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-01 Jin Qiao , Tao Zhu , Wen Zhao , Anzhong Wang

Any modification on gravity would affect not only gravitational wave (GW) generation but also GW propagation. Therefore, tests of general relativity (GR) with only GW generation or GW propagation will lead to an overestimate for deviations.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-22 Ke Wang