TY - JOUR
T1 - Parametrized post-Einsteinian framework for precessing binaries
AU - Loutrel, Nicholas
AU - Pani, Paolo
AU - Yunes, Nicolás
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023/2/15
Y1 - 2023/2/15
N2 - In general relativity, isolated black holes obey the no-hair theorems, which fix the multipolar structure of their exterior spacetime. However, in modified gravity, or when the compact objects are not black holes, the exterior spacetime may have a different multipolar structure. When two black holes are in a binary, this multipolar structure determines the morphology of the dynamics of orbital and spin precession. In turn, the precession dynamics imprint onto the gravitational waves emitted by an inspiraling compact binary through specific amplitude and phase modulations. The detection and characterization of these amplitude and phase modulations can therefore lead to improved constraints on fundamental physics with gravitational waves. Recently, analytic precessing waveforms were calculated in two scenarios: (i) dynamical Chern-Simons gravity, where the no-hair theorems are violated, and (ii) deformed compact objects with generic mass quadrupole moments. In this work, we use these two examples to propose an extension of the parametrized post-Einsteinian (ppE) framework to include precession effects. The new framework contains 2n ppE parameters (b(m′,n)ppE,b(m′,n)ppE) for the waveform phase, and 2n ppE parameters (a(m′,n)ppE,a(m′,n)ppE) for the waveform amplitudes. The number of ppE corrections n corresponds to the minimum number of harmonics necessary to achieve a given likelihood threshold when comparing the truncated ppE waveform with the exact one, and (m′,n) corresponds to the harmonic numbers of the harmonics containing ppE parameters. We show explicitly how these ppE parameters map to the specific example waveforms discussed above. The proposed ppE framework can serve as a basis for future tests of general relativity with gravitational waves from precessing binaries.
AB - In general relativity, isolated black holes obey the no-hair theorems, which fix the multipolar structure of their exterior spacetime. However, in modified gravity, or when the compact objects are not black holes, the exterior spacetime may have a different multipolar structure. When two black holes are in a binary, this multipolar structure determines the morphology of the dynamics of orbital and spin precession. In turn, the precession dynamics imprint onto the gravitational waves emitted by an inspiraling compact binary through specific amplitude and phase modulations. The detection and characterization of these amplitude and phase modulations can therefore lead to improved constraints on fundamental physics with gravitational waves. Recently, analytic precessing waveforms were calculated in two scenarios: (i) dynamical Chern-Simons gravity, where the no-hair theorems are violated, and (ii) deformed compact objects with generic mass quadrupole moments. In this work, we use these two examples to propose an extension of the parametrized post-Einsteinian (ppE) framework to include precession effects. The new framework contains 2n ppE parameters (b(m′,n)ppE,b(m′,n)ppE) for the waveform phase, and 2n ppE parameters (a(m′,n)ppE,a(m′,n)ppE) for the waveform amplitudes. The number of ppE corrections n corresponds to the minimum number of harmonics necessary to achieve a given likelihood threshold when comparing the truncated ppE waveform with the exact one, and (m′,n) corresponds to the harmonic numbers of the harmonics containing ppE parameters. We show explicitly how these ppE parameters map to the specific example waveforms discussed above. The proposed ppE framework can serve as a basis for future tests of general relativity with gravitational waves from precessing binaries.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.107.044046
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.107.044046
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85149539478
SN - 2470-0010
VL - 107
JO - Physical Review D
JF - Physical Review D
IS - 4
M1 - 044046
ER -