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The extremely small accelerations of objects required for the the onset of modified Newtonian dynamics, or MOND, makes testing the hypothesis in conventional terrestrial laboratories virtually impossible. This is due to the large background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Saurya Das , S. N. Patitsas

We develop a unified framework for testing gravity beyond General Relativity (GR) with continuous gravitational waves (CWs) from individual supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs). These long-lived, nearly monochromatic nanohertz signals…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-08 Qinyuan Zheng , Bjorn Larsen , Ellis Eisenberg , Chiara M. F. Mingarelli

Using the censored catalog of 103,169 resolved Gaia DR3 binary stars with accurate astrometric data for each component, a new observable, object-specific parameter is computed for each pair: the projected orbital momentum. This parameter is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-01 Valeri V. Makarov

Gravitational-wave observations provide a unique opportunity to test general relativity (GR) in the strong-field and highly dynamical regime of the theory. Parametrized tests of GR are one well-known approach for quantifying violations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-08 Pankaj Saini , Marc Favata , K. G. Arun

Astrometry from {\it Gaia} DR3 has enabled the discovery of a sample of 3000+ binaries containing white dwarfs (WD) and main-sequence (MS) stars in relatively wide orbits, with orbital periods $P_{\rm orb} = (100-1000)$ d. This population…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-19 Natsuko Yamaguchi , Kareem El-Badry , Natalie Rees , Sahar Shahaf , Tsevi Mazeh , René Andrae

Gravitational waves allow us to test general relativity in the highly dynamical regime. While current observations have been consistent with waves emitted by quasi-circular binaries, eccentric binaries may also produce detectable signals in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-26 Blake Moore , Nicolás Yunes

Modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) is a possible way to explain the flat galaxy rotation curves without invoking the existence of dark matter. It is however quite difficult to predict such a phenomenology in a consistent field theory, free…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-18 Jean-Philippe Bruneton , Gilles Esposito-Farese

We use gravitational waves (GWs) from binary black holes (BBHs) and neutron stars inspiraling into intermediate-mass black holes to evaluate how accurately the future space-based GW detectors such as LISA, Taiji and TianQin and their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-19 Qing Gao , Yujie You , Yungui Gong , Chao Zhang , Chunyu Zhang

Astrophysical data analysis of the weak-field predictions support the claim that modified gravity (MOG) theories provide a self-consistent, scale-invariant, universal description of galaxy rotation curves, without the need of non-baryonic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-08-09 J. R. Brownstein

Moderhai Milgrom's Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) correction to Newtonian gravity or inertia is shown to be equivalent to a more fundamental formulation considering a non-inertial local reference frame and the fixed background of the…

General Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Manuel Uruena Palomo

Gravitational-wave (GW) catalogs are rapidly increasing in number, allowing for robust statistical analyses of the population of compact binaries. Nonetheless, GW inference of cosmology has typically relied on additional electromagnetic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-15 Jose María Ezquiaga

Wide binary stars are important for testing alternative models of gravitation in the weak-field regime and understanding the statistical outcomes of dynamical interactions in the general Galactic field. The Gaia mission's collection of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-28 Valeri V. Makarov

The wide binary orbit of Proxima Centauri around $\alpha$ Centauri A and B differs significantly between Newtonian and Milgromian dynamics (MOND). By combining previous calculations of this effect with mock observations generated using a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-21 Indranil Banik , Pavel Kroupa

We show that the Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) regime can be fully recovered as the weak-field limit of a particular theory of gravity formulated in the metric approach. This is possible when Milgrom's acceleration constant is taken as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 S. Mendoza , T. Bernal , J. C. Hidalgo , S. Capozziello

White dwarfs (WDs) are powerful tools to study the evolutionary history of stars and binaries in the Galaxy. But do we understand their multiplicity from a theoretical point of view? This can be tested by a comparison with the sample of WDs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-26 S. Toonen , M. Hollands , B. T. Gaensicke , T. Boekholt

At it stands, the $\Lambda CDM$ model does not anticipate the early emergence of massive galaxies. Canonical Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) seems to fail at late time solar system scale and Wide-Binary scales. To match data, a MOND…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-12 James C. C. Wong

Understanding the multiplicity of stellar systems and the correlations between their hierarchical components provides crucial insights into star formation processes. If binary companions form independently in each component of a wide binary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-06 Dolev Bashi , Cathie J. Clarke , Vasily Belokurov

Dwarf and low surface brightness galaxies are ideal objects to test modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND), because in most of these galaxies the accelerations fall below the threshold below where MOND supposedly applies. We have selected from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 R. A. Swaters , R. H. Sanders , S. S. McGaugh

Using the recent GAIA eDR3 catalogue we construct a sample of solar neighbourhood isolated wide binaries satisfying a series of strict signal-to-noise data cuts, exclusion of random association criteria and detailed colour-magnitude diagram…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-17 X. Hernandez , S. Cookson , R. A. M. Cortes

The direct detection of gravitational waves (GWs) opened a new chapter in the modern cosmology to probe possible deviations from the general relativity (GR) theory. In the present work, we investigate for the first time the modified GW form…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-16 Rafael C. Nunes , Marcio E. S. Alves , Jose C. N. de Araujo