TY - JOUR
T1 - Extreme gravity tests with gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences
T2 - (I) inspiral–merger
AU - Berti, Emanuele
AU - Yagi, Kent
AU - Yunes, Nicolás
N1 - Funding Information:
E.B. was supported by NSF Grants Nos. PHY-1607130 and AST-1716715. N.Y. acknowledges support through the NSF CAREER Grant PHY-1250636 and NASA Grants NNX16AB98G and 80NSSC17M0041. This article belongs to the Topical Collection: Testing the Kerr spacetime with gravitational-wave and electromagnetic observations.
Funding Information:
Acknowledgements E.B. was supported by NSF Grants Nos. PHY-1607130 and AST-1716715. N.Y. acknowledges support through the NSF CAREER Grant PHY-1250636 and NASA Grants NNX16AB98G and 80NSSC17M0041.
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PY - 2018/4/1
Y1 - 2018/4/1
N2 - The observation of the inspiral and merger of compact binaries by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration ushered in a new era in the study of strong-field gravity. We review current and future tests of strong gravity and of the Kerr paradigm with gravitational-wave interferometers, both within a theory-agnostic framework (the parametrized post-Einsteinian formalism) and in the context of specific modified theories of gravity (scalar–tensor, Einstein–dilaton–Gauss–Bonnet, dynamical Chern–Simons, Lorentz-violating, and extra dimensional theories). In this contribution we focus on (i) the information carried by the inspiral radiation, and (ii) recent progress in numerical simulations of compact binary mergers in modified gravity.
AB - The observation of the inspiral and merger of compact binaries by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration ushered in a new era in the study of strong-field gravity. We review current and future tests of strong gravity and of the Kerr paradigm with gravitational-wave interferometers, both within a theory-agnostic framework (the parametrized post-Einsteinian formalism) and in the context of specific modified theories of gravity (scalar–tensor, Einstein–dilaton–Gauss–Bonnet, dynamical Chern–Simons, Lorentz-violating, and extra dimensional theories). In this contribution we focus on (i) the information carried by the inspiral radiation, and (ii) recent progress in numerical simulations of compact binary mergers in modified gravity.
KW - Compact binary systems
KW - Gravitational waves
KW - Modified gravity
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U2 - 10.1007/s10714-018-2362-8
DO - 10.1007/s10714-018-2362-8
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85044988589
SN - 0001-7701
VL - 50
JO - General Relativity and Gravitation
JF - General Relativity and Gravitation
IS - 4
M1 - 46
ER -