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We investigate the new observational constraints on $f(T)$ gravity that arise from the effects of primordial gravitational waves (GWs) on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies and the BB spectrum. We first show that on the GWs…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-30 Rafael C. Nunes , Supriya Pan , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

Regularized Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) theory of gravity in four dimensions is a new attempt to include nontrivial contributions of Gauss-Bonnet term. In this paper, we make a detailed analysis on possible constraints of the model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-10 Jia-Xi Feng , Bao-Min Gu , Fu-Wen Shu

We investigate solutions of a new $4D$ Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity ($4D$ $EGB$). We first describe the bulk vacuum solution, then we add a massive probe scalar field, and we follow considering a self-interacting scalar field which acts as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-13 D. Bazeia , R. Menezes , A. Yu. Petrov , P. J. Porfírio

A significant fraction of white dwarfs, the degenerate remnants of low- and intermediate-mass stars, host strong magnetic fields; yet, the origin and evolution of these magnetic fields remain poorly understood. Building a large,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 Larissa L. Amorim , S. O. Kepler , Alejandra D. Romero

Recently there has been a surge of interest in regularizing, a $ D \to 4 $ limit of, the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity, and the resulting regularized $4D$ EGB gravity has nontrivial dynamics. The theory admits spherically symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-28 Rahul Kumar , Sushant G. Ghosh

This paper is devoted to investigate the dynamics of the self gravitating adiabatic and anisotropic source in $5D$ Einstein Gauss-Bonnet gravity. To this end, the source has been taken as Tolman-Bondi model which preserve inhomogeneity in…

General Physics · Physics 2015-04-30 G. Abbas , M. Zubair

Recent gravitational wave observations allow us to probe gravity in the strong and dynamical field regime. In this paper, we focus on testing Einstein-dilaton Gauss-Bonnet gravity which is motivated by string theory. In particular, we use…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-03 Zhenwei Lyu , Nan Jiang , Kent Yagi

Mergers of binaries comprised of compact objects can give rise to explosive transient events, heralding the birth of exotic objects which cannot be formed through single star evolution. Using a large number of direct N-body simulations, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-20 Giacomo Fragione , Brian D. Metzger , Rosalba Perna , Nathan W. C. Leigh , Bence Kocsis

We study the impact of non-local modifications of General Relativity on stellar structure. In particular, assuming an analytic distortion function and specific equations of state, we made use of remnant stars to put qualitative constraints…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-23 Grigoris Panotopoulos , Javier Rubio , Ilídio Lopes

Cosmic evolution is the most sensational topic among researchers of modern cosmology. This article explores cosmic evolution in 4D Einstein Gauss Bonnet gravity, focusing on mass accretion of compact objects (black holes and wormholes) by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-09 Puja Mukherjee , Himanshu Chaudhary , Ujjal Debnath , G. Mustafa

We develop a theoretical framework to study slowly rotating compact stars in a rather general class of alternative theories of gravity, with the ultimate goal of investigating constraints on alternative theories from electromagnetic and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Paolo Pani , Emanuele Berti , Vitor Cardoso , Jocelyn Read

We investigate the regularized four-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet ($4D$ EGB) gravity with a non-minimal scalar coupling function, which is an extension of the regularized $4D$ EGB theory. By introducing non-minimal coupling to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-23 Bilguun Bayarsaikhan , Sunly Khimphun , Phearun Rithy , Gansukh Tumurtushaa

In Palatini $f(R)$ gravity, the parameters of the Schwarzschild - de Sitter solution as well as the whole interior solutions of compact objects are expected to change when compared to general relativity. We solve the Palatini field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-07 Vappu Reijonen

Type Ia supernovae (SNeIa), used as one of the standard candles in astrophysics, are believed to form when the mass of the white dwarf approaches Chandrasekhar mass limit. However, observations in last few decades detected some peculiar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-10 Surajit Kalita , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) of low-mass white dwarfs (WDs, 0.1 - 0.3 Msun) around spinning intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs, 10^3 - 10^5 Msun) offer unique opportunities for multi-messenger astronomy, emitting both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-11 Yang Yang , Jie Yang , Xian Chen , Zihan Zhang

Recently, several white dwarfs with very strong surface magnetic fields have been observed. In this paper we explore the possibility that such stars could have sufficiently strong internal fields to alter their structure. We obtain a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 In-Saeng Suh , G. J. Mathews

This paper investigates the contribution of the nonsingular Yukawa-modified potential in the context of four-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity modeling by a static and spherically symmetric black hole solution. These…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-09 Yassine Sekhmani , A. A. Araújo Filho , Ratbay Myrzakulov , Adam Z. Kaczmarek , Javlon Rayimbaev , Dominik Szczȩśniak

Neutron star-white dwarf (NS-WD) binaries evolve into either ultra-compact X-ray binaries undergoing stable mass transfer or direct mergers by unstable mass transfer. While much attention has been on gravitational wave (GW) emissions from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-07 Shu-Qing Zhong , Yan-Zhi Meng , Jia-Hong Gu

In this work, we study the properties of magnetized white dwarfs taking into account possible instabilities due to electron capture and pycnonuclear fusion reactions in the cores of such objects. The structure of white dwarfs is obtained by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-31 Edson Otoniel , Bruno Franzon , Manuel Malheiro , Stefan Schramm , Fridolin Weber

In this paper we study the observational constraints that can be imposed on the coupling parameter, $\hat \alpha$, of the regularized version of the 4-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory of gravity. We use the scalar-tensor field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-08 Timothy Clifton , Pedro Carrilho , Pedro G. S. Fernandes , David J. Mulryne