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The extreme-gravity collisions of binaries with one black hole and one neutron star provide for excellent tests of general relativity. We here study how well one can constrain theories beyond general relativity with additional scalar fields…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-08 Zack Carson , Brian C. Seymour , Kent Yagi

The recent gravitational wave observations by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration have allowed the first tests of General Relativity in the extreme gravity regime, when comparable-mass black holes and neutron stars collide. Future space-based…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-03 Alejandro Cardenas-Avendano , Andres F. Gutierrez , Leonardo A. Pachon , Nicolas Yunes

The emergent area of gravitational wave astronomy promises to provide revolutionary discoveries in the areas of astrophysics, cosmology, and fundamental physics. One of the most exciting possibilities is to use gravitational-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-20 Carlos F. Sopuerta , Nicolas Yunes

Thanks to the recent discoveries of gravitational wave signals from binary black hole mergers by Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory and Advanced Virgo, the genuinely strong-field dynamics of spacetime can now be…

Chern-Simons gravitational theories are extensions of general relativity in which the parity is violated due to the Chern-Simons term. We study linear perturbations on the static and spherically symmetric background spacetime both for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-15 Hayato Motohashi , Teruaki Suyama

A promising extension of general relativity is Chern-Simons (CS) modified gravity, in which the Einstein-Hilbert action is modified by adding a parity-violating CS term, which couples to gravity via a scalar field. In this work, we consider…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-23 Tiberiu Harko , Zoltán Kovács , Francisco S. N. Lobo

We calculate the gravitational waveform radiated from spinning black holes (BHs) binary in dynamical Chern-Simons (dCS) gravity. The equation of motion (EOM) of the spinining binary BHs is derived based on the modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-16 Zhao Li , Jin Qiao , Tan Liu , Tao Zhu , Wen Zhao

Space-borne gravitational wave detectors, such as the proposed Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, are expected to observe black hole coalescences to high redshift and with large signal-to-noise ratios, rendering their gravitational waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-29 Nicolas Yunes , Frans Pretorius , David Spergel

We propose a dynamical amplification mechanism for detecting symmetry breaking in black holes through environmentally driven spectral instabilities of quasinormal modes. Focusing on dynamical Chern-Simons gravity as a paradigm for parity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-01 Han-Wen Hu , Chen Lan , Zong-Kuan Guo

Rapidly rotating black hole solutions in theories beyond general relativity play a key role in experimental gravity, as they allow us to compute observables in extreme spacetimes that deviate from the predictions of general relativity. Such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-29 Robert McNees , Leo C. Stein , Nicolás Yunes

We perform a linear stability analysis of dynamical Chern-Simons modified gravity in the geometric optics approximation and find that it is linearly stable on the backgrounds considered. Our analysis also reveals that gravitational waves in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-09 David Garfinkle , Frans Pretorius , Nicolas Yunes

In this proceedings, we are interested in dark gravitational wave standard sirens and their use for cosmology and for constraining modified gravity theories. Due to the extra friction term introduced in their propagation equation those…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-15 Konstantin Leyde , Simone Mastrogiovanni , Danièle A. Steer , Eric Chassande-Mottin , Christos Karathanasis

We study stationary slowly rotating black holes, up to quadratic order in the spin angular momentum, in dynamical Chern-Simons gravity and shift symmetric Einstein scalar Gauss-Bonnet gravity, as models of string-inspired gravities. These…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-14 Keisuke Nakashi , Masashi Kimura

Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) are one of the most promising sources of gravitational waves (GWs) for space-based detectors like the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). EMRIs consist of a compact stellar object orbiting around…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-06-05 Priscilla Canizares , Jonathan R. Gair , Carlos F. Sopuerta

In this paper, we consider dynamical Chern-Simons gravity with the identification of the scalar field coupled though the Pontryagin density with the axion dark matter, and we discuss the effects of the parametric resonance on gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-05 Tomohiro Fujita , Ippei Obata , Takahiro Tanaka , Kei Yamada

Dynamical Chern-Simons (DCS) theory is an extension of General Relativity in which the gravitational field is coupled to a scalar field through a parity violating term. We study perturbations of anti-de Sitter black holes and branes in such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-20 Terence Delsate , Vitor Cardoso , Paolo Pani

Parity violation in gravity, if existed, could have important implications, and it is meaningful to search and test the possible observational effects. Chern-Simons modified gravity serves as a natural model for gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-08 Peng Xu , Zhi Wang , Li-E Qiang

Testing general relativity in the non-linear, dynamical, strong-field regime of gravity is one of the major goals of gravitational wave astrophysics. Performing precision tests of general relativity (GR) requires numerical inspiral, merger,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-21 Maria Okounkova , Leo C. Stein , Mark A. Scheel , Daniel A. Hemberger

The direct discovery of gravitational waves from compact binary systems leads for the first time to explore the possibility of black hole spectroscopy. Newly formed black holes produced by coalescing events are copious emitters of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-24 Andrea Maselli , Kostas Kokkotas , Pablo Laguna

If string theory is correct, then our observable Universe may be a 3-dimensional "brane" embedded in a higher-dimensional spacetime. This theoretical scenario should be tested via the state-of-the-art in gravitational experiments -- the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Chris Clarkson , Roy Maartens