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In the broad subclass of Horndeski theories with a luminal speed of gravitational waves, we derive gravitational waveforms emitted from a compact binary by considering the wave propagation on a spatially flat cosmological background. A…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-21 Miguel Quartin , Shinji Tsujikawa , Luca Amendola , Riccardo Sturani

We study black holes in a modified gravity scenario involving a scalar field quadratically coupled to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant. The scalar is assumed to be in a spontaneously broken phase at spatial infinity due to a bare Higgs-like…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-05 Eugeny Babichev , William T. Emond , Sabir Ramazanov

We study influence of scalar fields on Nonlinear Electrodynamics spacetimes. The investigation is carried out using both test and gravitating scalar fields. After revisiting Einstein-Maxwell scalar field solutions we focus on analytic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-15 T. Tahamtan

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are placing increasingly stringent constraints on the strain amplitude of continuous gravitational waves emitted by supermassive black hole binaries on subparsec scales. In this paper, we incorporate independent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-08 Katelin Schutz , Chung-Pei Ma

Black holes in scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity are prone to scalarization, that is a spontaneous development of scalar hair for strong enough spacetime curvature while the weak field regime of the theory coincides with general relativity. Since…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-05 Daniela D. Doneva , Alex Vañó-Viñuales , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

In the extended scalar-tensor-Gauss-Bonnet theory, spontaneous scalarization in the GB\(^-\) regime typically occurs only in rotating black holes, while it is absent in spherically symmetric black holes, a phenomenon known as spin-induced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-23 Lei Tang , Jie Jiang

We present spontaneous scalarization of charged black holes (BHs) which is induced by the coupling of the scalar field to the electromagnetic field strength and the double-dual Riemann tensor $L^{\mu\nu\alpha\beta}F_{\mu\nu}F_{\alpha\beta}$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-13 Taishi Ikeda , Tomohiro Nakamura , Masato Minamitsuji

We investigate time delays of wave scatterings around black hole backgrounds in scalar-tensor effective field theories of gravity. The scalar-Gauss-Bonnet (sGB) couplings, being corrections of the lowest orders, can give rise to hairy black…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-03 Wen-Kai Nie , Lin-Tao Tan , Jun Zhang , Shuang-Yong Zhou

In this study, we investigate a nonlinear mechanism driving the formation of scalarized rotating black holes within a scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity framework that includes an additional squared Gauss-Bonnet term. With the specific coupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-23 Shoupan Liu , Yunqi Liu , Yan Peng , Cheng-Yong Zhang

Particular couplings between a scalar field and the Gauss-Bonnet invariant lead to spontaneous scalarization of black holes. Here we continue our work on simulating this phenomenon in the context of binary black hole systems. We consider a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-31 Matthew Elley , Hector O. Silva , Helvi Witek , Nicolás Yunes

It has been shown that the "complexity=anything" observables allow more possibilities to probe the geometry behind the horizon of AdS black holes compared to the volume complexity. For uncharged black holes, these observables access the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-02 Giuseppe Policastro , Simon Wittum

We derive causality constraints on the simplest scalar-tensor theories in which black holes differ from what General Relativity predicts, a scalar coupled to the Gauss-Bonnet or the Chern-Simons terms. Demanding that time advances are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Francesco Serra , Javi Serra , Enrico Trincherini , Leonardo G. Trombetta

The present thesis attempts to study the effect of scalar fields on Hawking radiation and quasinormal modes of black holes. We selected a static, spherically symmetric electrically charged black hole with an additional scalar 'hair' for our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-07 Avijit Chowdhury

We investigate the superhorizon behavior of scalar hair sourced by black holes in de Sitter spacetime in the linearly coupled shift-symmetric scalar-Gauss-Bonnet theory. Working in the test-field regime, we show that this hair exhibits both…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-15 Dražen Glavan , Darío Jaramillo-Garrido

Supermassive black hole binary mergers generate a stochastic gravitational wave background detectable by pulsar timing arrays. While the amplitude of this background is subject to significant uncertainties, the frequency dependence is a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-20 Jeff A. Dror , Benjamin V. Lehmann , Hiren H. Patel , Stefano Profumo

In the presence of a complex scalar field scalar-tensor theory allows for scalarized rotating hairy black holes. We exhibit the domain of existence for these scalarized black holes, which is bounded by scalarized rotating boson stars and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-24 Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz , Stoytcho Yazadjiev

Pulsar timing is a promising technique for detecting low frequency sources of gravitational waves. Historically the focus has been on the detection of diffuse stochastic backgrounds, such as those formed from the superposition of weak…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-08-18 Vincent Corbin , Neil J. Cornish

In general relativity, astrophysical black holes are simple objects, being described by just their mass and spin. These simple solutions are not exclusive to general relativity, as they also appear in theories that allow for an extra scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-02 Caio F. B. Macedo

Scalar fields coupled to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant can undergo a tachyonic instability, leading to spontaneous scalarization of black holes. Studies of this effect have so far been restricted to single black hole spacetimes. We present the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-16 Hector O. Silva , Helvi Witek , Matthew Elley , Nicolás Yunes

The close limit approximation of binary black hole is a powerful method to study gravitational-wave emission from highly non-linear geometries. In this work, we use it as a tool to model black hole spacetimes in theories of gravity with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-22 Lorenzo Annulli