New horizons for fundamental physics with LISA

KG Arun, E Belgacem, R Benkel, L Bernard… - Living Reviews in …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) has the potential to reveal wonders
about the fundamental theory of nature at play in the extreme gravity regime, where the …

Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: a roadmap

L Barack, V Cardoso, S Nissanke… - … and quantum gravity, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
70 AIM, UMR 7158, CEA/DRF, CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, Irfu/Service d'Astrophysique,
Centre de Saclay, FR-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France

First Sagittarius A* event horizon telescope results. VI. Testing the black hole metric

K Akiyama, A Alberdi, W Alef, JC Algaba… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Astrophysical black holes are expected to be described by the Kerr metric. This is the only
stationary, vacuum, axisymmetric metric, without electromagnetic charge, that satisfies …

Tests of general relativity with binary black holes from the second LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave transient catalog

R Abbott, TD Abbott, S Abraham, F Acernese, K Ackley… - Physical review D, 2021 - APS
Gravitational waves enable tests of general relativity in the highly dynamical and strong-field
regime. Using events detected by LIGO-Virgo up to 1 October 2019, we evaluate the …

First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. VI: Testing the Black Hole Metric

Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Astrophysical black holes are expected to be described by the Kerr metric. This is the only
stationary, vacuum, axisymmetric metric, without electromagnetic charge, that satisfies …

Tests of general relativity with the binary black hole signals from the LIGO-Virgo catalog GWTC-1

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, S Abraham… - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
The detection of gravitational waves by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo provides an
opportunity to test general relativity in a regime that is inaccessible to traditional …

Spontaneous scalarization of black holes and compact stars from a Gauss-Bonnet coupling

HO Silva, J Sakstein, L Gualtieri, TP Sotiriou, E Berti - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
We identify a class of scalar-tensor theories with coupling between the scalar and the Gauss-
Bonnet invariant that exhibit spontaneous scalarization for both black holes and compact …

Gravitational-wave flux and quadrupole modes from quasicircular nonspinning compact binaries to the fourth post-Newtonian order

L Blanchet, G Faye, Q Henry, F Larrouturou, D Trestini - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
This article provides the details on the technical derivation of the gravitational waveform and
total gravitational-wave energy flux of nonspinning compact binary systems to the fourth post …

Improved gravitational-wave constraints on higher-order curvature theories of gravity

SE Perkins, R Nair, HO Silva, N Yunes - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
Gravitational wave observations of compact binaries allow us to test general relativity (and
modifications thereof) in the strong and highly dynamical field regime of gravity. Here, we …

Theoretical physics implications of the binary black-hole mergers GW150914 and GW151226

N Yunes, K Yagi, F Pretorius - Physical review D, 2016 - APS
The gravitational wave observations GW150914 and GW151226 by Advanced LIGO provide
the first opportunity to learn about physics in the extreme gravity environment of coalescing …