Inspiral-merger-ringdown waveforms in Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity within the effective-one-body formalism

FL Julié, L Pompili, A Buonanno - Physical Review D, 2025 - APS
Gravitational waves (GWs) provide a unique opportunity to test general relativity (GR) in the
highly dynamical, strong-field regime. So far, the majority of the tests of GR with GW signals …

Scalarization of isolated black holes in scalar Gauss-Bonnet theory in the fixing-the-equations approach

G Lara, HP Pfeiffer, NA Wittek, NL Vu, KC Nelli… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
One of the most promising avenues to perform numerical evolutions in theories beyond
general relativity is the fixing-the-equations approach, a proposal in which new “driver” …

Gravitational lensing effect of black holes in effective quantum gravity

H Liu, MY Lai, XY Pan, H Huang, DC Zou - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
In the present work, we investigate the gravitational lensing effects of two quantum-modified
black hole models recently proposed in effective quantum gravity. The light deflection angles …

Gravitational-wave constraints on scalar-tensor gravity from a neutron star and black-hole binary GW200115

H Takeda, S Tsujikawa, A Nishizawa - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
In nonminimally coupled theories where a scalar field ϕ is coupled to the Ricci scalar,
neutron stars (NSs) can have scalar charges through an interaction with matter mediated by …

Instabilities of black holes in Einstein-scalar–Gauss–Bonnet theories

JL Blázquez-Salcedo, B Kleihaus, J Kunz - General Relativity and …, 2024 - Springer
Black holes represent an ideal laboratory to test Einstein's theory of general relativity and
alternative theories of gravity. Among the latter, Einstein-scalar–Gauss–Bonnet Theories …

Neutron stars in the bumblebee theory of gravity

P Ji, Z Li, L Yang, R Xu, Z Hu, L Shao - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Recently, theoretical studies on the bumblebee gravity model, a nonminimally coupled
vector-tensor theory that violates the Lorentz symmetry, have flourished, with a simultaneous …

Quasistationary hair for binary black hole initial data in scalar Gauss-Bonnet gravity

PJ Nee, G Lara, HP Pfeiffer, NL Vu - Physical Review D, 2025 - APS
Recent efforts to numerically simulate compact objects in alternative theories of gravity have
largely focused on the time-evolution equations. Another critical aspect is the construction of …

Dynamic instability analysis for bumblebee black holes: The odd parity

ZF Mai, R Xu, D Liang, L Shao - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Spherical black hole (BH) solutions have been found in the bumblebee gravity where a
vector field nonminimally couples to the Ricci tensor. We study dynamic (in) stability …

Quasinormal modes in modified gravity using physics-informed neural networks

R Luna, DD Doneva, JA Font, JH Lien, SS Yazadjiev - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
In this paper, we apply a novel approach based on physics-informed neural networks to the
computation of quasinormal modes of black hole solutions in modified gravity. In particular …

nonlinear evolution of Ricci-coupled scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity

DD Doneva, LA Saló, SS Yazadjiev - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Scalar-Gauss-Bonnet (sGB) gravity with an additional coupling between the scalar field and
the Ricci scalar exhibits very interesting properties related to black hole stability, evasion of …