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Using the recent observation of gravitational waves (GW) produced by a black-hole merger, we place a lower bound on the energy above which a multifractal spacetime would display an anomalous geometry and, in particular, violations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-09 Gianluca Calcagni

We constrain the distribution of merging compact binaries across the celestial sphere using the GWTC-3 catalog from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaborations' (LVK) third observing run. With 63 confident detections from O3, we constrain the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-01 Reed Essick , Will M. Farr , Maya Fishbach , Daniel E. Holz , Erik Katsavounidis

A discovery of gravitational waves from binary black holes raises a possibility that measurements of them can provide strict tests of CPT invariance in gravitational waves. When CPT violation exists, if any, gravitational waves with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-05 Sai Wang , Zhi-Chao Zhao

Gravitational-wave observations of coalescing binary systems allow for novel tests of the strong-field regime of gravity. Using data from the Gravitational Wave Open Science Center (GWOSC) of the LIGO and Virgo detectors, we place the first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-03 Noah Sennett , Richard Brito , Alessandra Buonanno , Victor Gorbenko , Leonardo Senatore

We summarize the four tests of general relativity carried out using the ten binary black hole signals detected by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo and included in their first catalog, GWTC-1. These events provide unprecedented opportunities…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-22 Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel

Detection of gravitational waves (GW) provides us an opportunity to test general relativity in strong and dynamical regimes of gravity. One of the tests is checking whether GW propagates with the speed of light or not. This test is crucial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-27 Atsushi Nishizawa , Takashi Nakamura

The discovery of gravitational waves (GWs) provides an unprecedented arena to test general relativity, including the gravitational Lorentz invariance violation (gLIV). In the propagation of GWs, a generic gLIV leads to anisotropy,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-20 Lijing Shao

Several observational phenomena suggest that the standard model of cosmology and particle physics requires revision. To address this, we consider the extension of general relativity known as massive gravity (MG). In this Letter, we explore…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-04 Chris Choi , Tina Kahniashvili

Space-based gravitational-wave detectors, such as LISA or a similar ESA-led mission, will offer unique opportunities to test general relativity. We study the bounds that space-based detectors could place on the graviton Compton wavelength…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Emanuele Berti , Jonathan Gair , Alberto Sesana

We show that the gravitational wave source counts distribution can test how gravitational radiation propagates on cosmological scales. This test does not require obtaining redshifts for the sources. If the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-27 Erminia Calabrese , Nicholas Battaglia , David N. Spergel

In the pursuit of a general formulation for a modified gravitational theory at the non-relativistic level and as an alternative to the dark matter hypothesis, we construct a model valid over a wide variety of astrophysical scales. Through…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-12-13 S. Mendoza , X. Hernandez , J. C. Hidalgo , T. Bernal

The growing catalog of gravitational wave (GW) detections by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration enables increasingly stringent tests of general relativity, particularly regarding possible parity and Lorentz violations. While most current…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-15 Wei-Hua Guo , Yuan-Zhu Wang , Tao Zhu

Strong gravitational lensing by galaxies provides us with a unique opportunity to understand the nature of gravity on galactic and extra-galactic scales. In this paper, we propose a new multimessenger approach using data from both…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 Tao Yang , Bin Hu , Rong-Gen Cai , Bin Wang

High-energy extensions to General Relativity modify the Einstein-Hilbert action with higher-order curvature corrections and theory-specific coupling constants. The order of these corrections imprints a universal curvature dependence on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-20 Ethan Payne , Maximiliano Isi , Katerina Chatziioannou , Luis Lehner , Yanbei Chen , Will M. Farr

Gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binaries are excellent probes of gravity in the strong- and dynamical-field regimes. We report a test of general relativity (GR) with the third GW Transient Catalog (GWTC-3) plus a few O4 events using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-12 Yiqi Xie , Gautham Narayan , Nicolás Yunes

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 generalized uncertainty principle and a minimum measurable length arise in various theories of gravity and predict Planck-scale modifications of the canonical position-momentum commutation relation. Postulating a similar modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-27 Pasquale Bosso , Saurya Das , Robert B. Mann

We explore a theoretical framework in which Lorentz symmetry is explicitly broken by incorporating derivative terms of the extrinsic curvature into the gravitational action. These modifications introduce a scale-dependent damping effect in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-21 Alireza Allahyari , Mohammadreza Davari , David F. Mota

Existing constraints on the graviton mass from gravitational-wave detections rely on the phase difference developed between different frequencies during the propagation. Effects on the quasinormal-mode frequencies of the black-hole ringdown…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-18 Ka-Wai Chung , Tjonnie Guang Feng Li

A frequentist asymptotic expansion method for error estimation is employed for a network of gravitational wave detectors to assess the amount of information that can be extracted from gravitational wave observations. Mathematically we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-22 Rhondale Tso , Michele Zanolin