Probing string-inspired gravity with the inspiral-merger-ringdown consistency tests of gravitational waves

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/ABA221MaRDI QIDQ5162383zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zack Carson, Kent Yagi

Publication date 2 November 2021

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08559

zbMATH Keywords

alternative theories of gravitygravitational wavestesting general relativity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-body problems (70F05) Collision of rigid or pseudo-rigid bodies (70F35) Orbital mechanics (70M20) Gravitational waves (83C35) Black holes (83C57) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: The extreme-gravity collisions between black holes allow us to probe the underlying theory of gravity. We apply the theory-agnostic inspiral-merger-ringdown consistency test to an example theory beyond general relativity for the first time. Here we focus on the string-inspired Einstein-dilaton Gauss-Bonnet gravity and modify the inspiral, ringdown, and remnant black hole properties of the gravitational waveform. We found that future multiband observations allow us to constrain the theory stronger than current observations by an order of magnitude. The formalism developed here can easily be applied to other theories.

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