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Extensions to General Relativity (GR) allow the polarization of gravitational waves (GW) from astrophysical sources to suffer from amplitude and velocity birefringence, which respectively induce changes in the ellipticity and orientation of…

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Extensions of general relativity often predict modifications to gravitational waveform morphology that depend functionally on source parameters, such as the masses and spins of coalescing black holes. However, current analyses of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-21 Costantino Pacilio , Riccardo Buscicchio

We explore a method to assess the relative scale of the strain measured in the different detectors of the gravitational-wave network, using binary black hole (BBH) events detected during the third observing run (O3). The number of such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-29 C. Alléné , N. Andres , M. Assiduo , F. Aubin , D. Buskulic , R. Chierici , D. Estevez , F. Faedi , G. M. Guidi , V. Juste , F. Marion , B. Mours , E. Nitoglia , V. Sordini , A. Syx

Recent observations have accumulated compelling evidence that some short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) are associated with the mergers of neutron star (NS) binaries. This would indicate that the SGRB event is associated with a gravitational-wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-11 Samaya Nissanke , Daniel E. Holz , Neal Dalal , Scott A. Hughes , Jonathan L. Sievers , Christopher M. Hirata

Pulsars are rotating neutron stars that emit periodic electromagnetic radiation. While pulsars generally slow down as they lose energy, some also experience glitches: spontaneous increases of their rotational frequency. According to several…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-18 Joan Moragues , Luana M. Modafferi , Rodrigo Tenorio , David Keitel

Gravitational-wave observations of merging binary neutron stars and black holes are now routinely made by detectors in the Advanced LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA network. Neutron star binary systems may also produce detectable electromagnetic and…

We set out to accurately measure gravity in the low-acceleration range $(10^{-11},10^{-9})$ m s$^{-2}$ from 3D motions of isolated wide binary stars. Gaia DR3 provides precise measurements of the four sky-plane components of the 3D relative…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-10 K. -H. Chae , B. -C. Lee , X. Hernandez , V. G. Orlov , D. Lim , D. A. Turnshek , Y. -W. Lee

Observations of gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary coalescences provide powerful tests of general relativity (GR), but systematic errors in data analysis could lead to incorrect scientific conclusions. This issue is especially…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-16 Qian Hu , John Veitch

The upcoming direct detection of gravitational waves will open a window to probing the strong-field regime of general relativity (GR). As a consequence, waveforms that include the presence of deviations from GR have been developed (e.g. in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 Salvatore Vitale , Walter Del Pozzo

A key task in cosmology is to test the validity of general relativity (GR) at cosmological scales and, therefore, to distinguish between dark energy and modified gravity (MG) as the driver of the late-time cosmic acceleration. The decay…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-07 Xinyi Zhao , Pengjie Zhang , Fuyu Dong

Gravitational waveforms for compact binary coalescences (CBCs) have been invaluable for detections by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration. They are obtained by a combination of semi-analytical models and numerical simulations. So far systematic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-13 Abhay Ashtekar , Tommaso De Lorenzo , Neev Khera

Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) observations of massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) will provide long duration inspiral signals with high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) data, ideal for testing general relativity (GR) in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-12 Manuel Piarulli , Sylvain Marsat , Elise M. Sänger , Alessandra Buonanno , Jan Steinhoff , Nicola Tamanini

We present constraints on testing general relativity (GR) at cosmological scales using recent data sets and assess the impact of galaxy intrinsic alignment (IA) in the CFHTLenS lensing data on those constraints. We consider CMB temperature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 Jason N. Dossett , Mustapha Ishak , David Parkinson , Tamara M. Davis

We compute the accuracy at which a LISA-like space-based gravitational wave detector will be able to observe deviations from General Relativity in the low frequency approximation. To do so, we introduce six correction parameters that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Cédric Huwyler , Antoine Klein , Philippe Jetzer

The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) has opened a new window to test the fundamental nature of gravity. We present constraints on the nonstandard propagation of GWs using the spectral siren method applied to binary black hole (BBH)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-30 Zu-Cheng Chen , Lang Liu

Gravitational waves (GWs) provide a new avenue to test Einstein's General Relativity (GR) using the ongoing and upcoming GW detectors by measuring the redshift evolution of the effective Planck mass proposed by several modified theories of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-05 Samsuzzaman Afroz , Suvodip Mukherjee

The direct detection of gravitational waves with upcoming second-generation gravitational wave detectors such as Advanced LIGO and Virgo will allow us to probe the genuinely strong-field dynamics of general relativity (GR) for the first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-10 Michalis Agathos , Walter Del Pozzo , Tjonnie G. F. Li , Chris Van Den Broeck , John Veitch , Salvatore Vitale

The measurement of the size of gravitationally bounded structures is an important test of gravity theories. For a given radius different theories can in fact predict a different gravitational stability mass (GSM) necessary to ensure the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-18 Camilo Santa , Antonio Enea Romano

The binary black hole signal GW250114, the clearest gravitational wave detected to date, offers a unique opportunity to test general relativity in the relativistic strong-gravity regime. How well does GW250114 agree with Einstein's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-09 Leonardo Grimaldi , Elisa Maggio , Lorenzo Pompili , Alessandra Buonanno

Gravity theories that modify General Relativity in the slow-motion regime can introduce nonperturbative corrections to the stochastic gravitational-wave background~(SGWB) from supermassive black-hole binaries in the nano-Hertz band, while…

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