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MOND has limelighted the fact that Newtonian dynamics (ND) and general relativity (GR) have not been verified at accelerations below MOND's $a_0$. In particular, we do not know that all the principles underlying ND or GR apply below $a_0$.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-22 Mordehai Milgrom

Eccentricity of wide binaries is difficult to measure due to their long orbital periods. With Gaia's high-precision astrometric measurements, eccentricity of a wide binary can be constrained by the angle between the separation vector and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Hsiang-Chih Hwang , Yuan-Sen Ting , Nadia L. Zakamska

Gravitational waves are excellent tools to probe the foundations of General Relativity in the strongly dynamical and non-linear regime. One such foundation is Lorentz symmetry, which can be broken in the gravitational sector by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 Devin Hansen , Nicolas Yunes , Kent Yagi

Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) is a possible solution for the missing mass problem in galactic dynamics; its predictions are in good agreement with observations in the limit of weak accelerations. However, MOND does not derive from a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-18 Sascha Trippe

Vertical stellar kinematics+density can be used to trace the dark matter distribution [or the equivalent phantom mass in a Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) scenario] through Jeans equations. In this paper, we want to improve this type of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-16 Martin Lopez-Corredoira

Stage-IV surveys will enable unprecedented tests of gravity on cosmological scales. However, assuming General Relativity in the analysis of large-scale structure could introduce systematic biases if gravity deviates from GR at these scales.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-27 Marc Alemany-Gotor , Cristian Viglione , Pablo Fosalba , Isaac Tutusaus

Testing gravitational theories by binary pulsars nowadays becomes a key issue. For the general screened modified gravity (SMG), the post-Keplerian parameters in the neutron star (NS) - white dwarf (WD) binaries differ from those of general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-08 Xing Zhang , Wen Zhao , Tan Liu , Kai Lin , Chao Zhang , Shaojun Zhang , Xiang Zhao , Tao Zhu , Anzhong Wang

Mergers of binary compact objects, accompanied with electromagnetic (EM) counterparts, offer excellent opportunities to explore varied cosmological models, since gravitational waves (GWs) and EM counterparts always carry the information of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-31 Ran Chen , Yi-Ying Wang , Lei Zu , Yi-Zhong Fan

Modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) is an empirically motivated modification of Newtonian gravity or inertia suggested by Milgrom as an alternative to cosmic dark matter. The basic idea is that at accelerations below a0 ~ 10^{-8} cm/s^2 ~…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Robert H. Sanders , Stacy S. McGaugh

Recent gravitational wave observations allow us to probe gravity in the strong and dynamical field regime. In this paper, we focus on testing Einstein-dilaton Gauss-Bonnet gravity which is motivated by string theory. In particular, we use…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-03 Zhenwei Lyu , Nan Jiang , Kent Yagi

Standard sirens are the gravitational wave (GW) analog of the astronomical standard candles, and can provide powerful information about the dynamics of the Universe. In this work, we simulate a catalog with 1000 standard siren events from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-26 Rocco D'Agostino , Rafael C. Nunes

Relative binning is a new method for fast and accurate evaluation of the likelihood of gravitational wave strain data. This technique can be used to produce reliable posterior distributions for compact object mergers with very moderate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-03 Liang Dai , Tejaswi Venumadhav , Barak Zackay

The phenomenology of modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) on galaxy scales may point to more fundamental theories of either modified gravity (MG) or modified inertia (MI). In this paper, we test the applicability of the global deep-MOND…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-22 Jonas Petersen , Federico Lelli

Clusters of galaxies offer a robust test bed for probing the nature of dark matter that is insensitive to the assumption of the gravity theories. Both Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) and General Relativity (GR) would require similar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Priyamvada Natarajan , Hongsheng Zhao

This review is focused on tests of Einstein's theory of General Relativity with gravitational waves that are detectable by ground-based interferometers and pulsar timing experiments. Einstein's theory has been greatly constrained in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Nicolas Yunes , Xavier Siemens

Most tests of general relativity with gravitational-wave observations rely on inferring the degree to which a signal deviates from general relativity in conjunction with the astrophysical parameters of its source, such as the component…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-22 Ethan Payne , Maximiliano Isi , Katerina Chatziioannou , Will M. Farr

Modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND), which postulates a breakdown of Newton's laws of gravity/dynamics below some critical acceleration threshold, can explain many otherwise puzzling observational phenomena on galactic scales. MOND competes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-15 David Vokrouhlický , David Nesvorný , Scott Tremaine

Wide, highly eccentric ($e>0.9$) compact binaries can naturally arise as progenitors of gravitational wave (GW) mergers. These systems are expected to have a significant population in the mHz band (e.g., $\sim 3-45$ detectable stellar-mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-28 Zeyuan Xuan , Smadar Naoz , Alvin K. Y. Li , Bence Kocsis , Erik Petigura , Alan M. Knee , Jess McIver , Kyle Kremer , Will M. Farr

Compact object binaries formed from dynamics interactions will generically have non-zero orbital eccentricity. The gravitational waves from such binaries can change drastically depending on how large the eccentricity is, ranging from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-31 Nicholas Loutrel

An important and useful relation is known to hold in two specific MOND theories. It pertains to low-acceleration, isolated systems of pointlike masses, m_p, at positions r_p, subject to gravitational forces F_p. It reads sum_p…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-17 Mordehai Milgrom