Prospects for fundamental physics with LISA

E Barausse, E Berti, T Hertog, SA Hughes… - General Relativity and …, 2020 - Springer
In this paper, which is of programmatic rather than quantitative nature, we aim to further
delineate and sharpen the future potential of the LISA mission in the area of fundamental …

Horndeski theory and beyond: a review

T Kobayashi - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
This article is intended to review the recent developments in the Horndeski theory and its
generalization, which provide us with a systematic understanding of scalar–tensor theories …

Agnostic black hole spectroscopy: Quasinormal mode content of numerical relativity waveforms and limits of validity of linear perturbation theory

V Baibhav, MHY Cheung, E Berti, V Cardoso, G Carullo… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Black hole spectroscopy is the program to measure the complex gravitational wave
frequencies of merger remnants, and to quantify their agreement with the characteristic …

Black holes with scalar hair in light of the Event Horizon Telescope

M Khodadi, A Allahyari, S Vagnozzi… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Searching for violations of the no-hair theorem (NHT) is a powerful way to test gravity, and
more generally fundamental physics, particularly with regards to the existence of additional …

Dark energy in light of multi-messenger gravitational-wave astronomy

JM Ezquiaga, M Zumalacárregui - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Gravitational waves (GWs) provide a new tool to probe the nature of dark energy (DE) and
the fundamental properties of gravity. We review the different ways in which GWs can be …

Black holes and binary mergers in scalar Gauss-Bonnet gravity: scalar field dynamics

H Witek, L Gualtieri, P Pani, TP Sotiriou - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
We study the nonlinear dynamics of black holes that carry scalar hair and binaries
composed of such black holes. The scalar hair is due to a linear or exponential coupling …

Cosmological tests of gravity

PG Ferreira - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Cosmological observations are beginning to reach a level of precision that allows us to test
some of the most fundamental assumptions in our working model of the Universe. One such …

Nonlinear studies of binary black hole mergers in Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity

M Corman, JL Ripley, WE East - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We study the nonlinear dynamics of binary black hole systems with scalar charge by
numerically evolving the full equations of motion for shift-symmetric Einstein scalar Gauss …

Parametrized black hole quasinormal ringdown. II. Coupled equations and quadratic corrections for nonrotating black holes

R McManus, E Berti, CFB Macedo, M Kimura, A Maselli… - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
Linear perturbations of spherically symmetric spacetimes in general relativity are described
by radial wave equations, with potentials that depend on the spin of the perturbing field. In …

Constraining gravitational wave propagation using pulsar timing array correlations

RC Bernardo, KW Ng - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Pulsar timing arrays (PTA) are a promising probe to the cosmologically novel nanohertz
gravitational wave (GW) regime through the stochastic GW background. In this work, we …