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Dynamical Chern-Simons gravity cannot be strongly constrained with current experiments because it reduces to General Relativity in the weak-field limit. This theory, however, introduces modifications in the non-linear, dynamical regime, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-03 Kent Yagi , Nicolas Yunes , Takahiro Tanaka

Dynamical Chern-Simons gravity is an interesting extension of General Relativity, which finds its way in many different contexts, including string theory, cosmological settings and loop quantum gravity. In this theory, the gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-19 Paolo Pani , Vitor Cardoso , Leonardo Gualtieri

The detection of gravitational waves from compact binary mergers by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration has, for the first time, allowed us to test relativistic gravity in its strong, dynamical and nonlinear regime, thus opening a new arena to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-16 Pratik Wagle , Nicolas Yunes , Hector O. Silva

The recent discovery of gravitational wave events has offered us unique testbeds of gravity in the strong and dynamical field regime. One possible modification to General Relativity is the gravitational parity violation that gives rise to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-23 Kent Yagi , Huan Yang

[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

Dynamical Chern-Simons gravity is an extension of General Relativity in which the gravitational field is coupled to a scalar field through a parity-violating Chern-Simons term. In this framework, we study perturbations of spherically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-04 C. Molina , Paolo Pani , Vitor Cardoso , Leonardo Gualtieri

Testing parity symmetry constitutes a critical aspect in gravitational physics. As a representative parity-violating theory, dynamical Chern-Simons (dCS) gravity has attracted significant attention in recent gravitational wave (GW) studies.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-02 Zhao Li , Wen Zhao

It is known that the four-dimensional effective field theory arising from heterotic string theory is general relativity with both a Chern-Simons and Gauss-Bonnet term. We study the propagation of gravitational waves in this combination of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-09 Tatsuya Daniel , Leah Jenks

Chern-Simons modified gravity is a string-theory and loop-quantum-gravity inspired effective theory that modifies General Relativity by adding a parity-violating Pontryagin density to the Einstein-Hilbert action multiplied by a coupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-15 Nicolas Yunes , David N. Spergel

Gravitational effective theories are essential for characterizing the space of deviations from General Relativity (GR). Testing these theories against fundamental principles, such as causality and unitarity, can yield constraints on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-09 Alexander Cassem , Mark P. Hertzberg

Testing deviation of GR is one of the main goals of the proposed {\emph{Laser Interferometer Space Antenna}}, a space-based gravitational-wave observatory. For the first time, we consistently compute the generation of gravitational waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Nicolas Yunes , C. F. Sopuerta

Chern-Simons modified gravity is an effective extension of general relativity that captures leading-order, gravitational parity violation. Such an effective theory is motivated by anomaly cancelation in particle physics and string theory.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 Stephon Alexander , Nicolas Yunes

We apply common gravitational wave inference procedures on binary black hole merger waveforms beyond general relativity. We consider dynamical Chern-Simons gravity, a modified theory of gravity with origins in string theory and loop quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-02 Maria Okounkova , Maximiliano Isi , Katerina Chatziioannou , Will M. Farr

We produce the first numerical relativity binary black hole gravitational waveforms in a higher-curvature theory beyond general relativity. In particular, we study head-on collisions of binary black holes in order-reduced dynamical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-20 Maria Okounkova , Leo C. Stein , Mark A. Scheel , Saul A. Teukolsky

Gravitational wave observations of compact binaries allow us to test general relativity (and modifications thereof) in the strong and highly-dynamical field regime of gravity. Here we confront two extensions to general relativity, dynamical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-04 Scott E. Perkins , Remya Nair , Hector O. Silva , Nicolas Yunes

The detection of gravitational waves resulting by the LIGO-Virgo-Kagra collaboration has inaugurated a new era in gravitational physics, providing an opportunity to test general relativity and its modifications in the strong gravity regime.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-15 Pratik Wagle , Dongjun Li , Yanbei Chen , Nicolas Yunes

Gravitational-wave (GW) data can be used to test general relativity in the highly nonlinear and strong field regime. Modified gravity theories such as Einstein-dilation-Gauss-Bonnet and dynamical Chern-Simons can be tested with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-14 Hai-Tian Wang , Shao-Peng Tang , Peng-Cheng Li , Ming-Zhe Han , Yi-Zhong Fan

Quasi-normal modes (QNMs) uniquely characterize the final black-hole. Till now, only the QNM frequency and damping time are used to test General relativity. In this work, we show explicitly that another property of the QNMs --- their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-24 Soham Bhattacharyya , S. Shankaranarayanan

Dynamical Chern-Simons (DCS) gravity, a typical parity-violating gravitational theory, modifies both the generation and propagation of gravitational waves from general relativity (GR). In this work, we derive the gravitational waveform…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-24 Zhao Li , Jin Qiao , Tan Liu , Rui Niu , Shaoqi Hou , Tao Zhu , Wen Zhao

Solar system observations have traditionally allowed for very stringent tests of Einstein's theory of general relativity. We here revisit the possibility of using these observations to constrain gravitational parity violation as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-22 Yuya Nakamura , Daiki Kikuchi , Kei Yamada , Hideki Asada , Nicolas Yunes
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