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

2019 ◽  
Vol 100 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
B. P. Abbott ◽  
R. Abbott ◽  
T. D. Abbott ◽  
S. Abraham ◽  
F. Acernese ◽  
...  
2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sayantani Datta ◽  
Anuradha Gupta ◽  
Shilpa Kastha ◽  
K. G. Arun ◽  
B. S. Sathyaprakash

Nature ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 452 (7189) ◽  
pp. 851-853 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Valtonen ◽  
H. J. Lehto ◽  
K. Nilsson ◽  
J. Heidt ◽  
L. O. Takalo ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. eaaz1310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Johnson ◽  
Alexandru Lupsasca ◽  
Andrew Strominger ◽  
George N. Wong ◽  
Shahar Hadar ◽  
...  

The Event Horizon Telescope image of the supermassive black hole in the galaxy M87 is dominated by a bright, unresolved ring. General relativity predicts that embedded within this image lies a thin “photon ring,” which is composed of an infinite sequence of self-similar subrings that are indexed by the number of photon orbits around the black hole. The subrings approach the edge of the black hole “shadow,” becoming exponentially narrower but weaker with increasing orbit number, with seemingly negligible contributions from high-order subrings. Here, we show that these subrings produce strong and universal signatures on long interferometric baselines. These signatures offer the possibility of precise measurements of black hole mass and spin, as well as tests of general relativity, using only a sparse interferometric array.


1979 ◽  
Vol 84 ◽  
pp. 401-404
Author(s):  
B. Paczyński ◽  
V. Trimble

There is a reasonable chance of finding a (probably X-ray) pulsar in a short-period orbit around the galactic center. Such a pulsar can provide a test distinguishing a central black hole from a supermassive object or spinar. It also makes available a good clock in a region of space in which GM/Rc2 is much larger than solar system values, thus allowing strong-field tests of general relativity.


2015 ◽  
Vol 91 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cédric Huwyler ◽  
Edward K. Porter ◽  
Philippe Jetzer

2020 ◽  
Vol 101 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandre Toubiana ◽  
Sylvain Marsat ◽  
Stanislav Babak ◽  
Enrico Barausse ◽  
John Baker

Author(s):  
Sayak Datta ◽  
Sukanta Bose

AbstractWe study the quasi-normal modes (QNMs) of static, spherically symmetric black holes in f(R) theories. We show how these modes in theories with non-trivial f(R) are fundamentally different from those in general relativity. In the special case of $$f(R) = \alpha R^2$$f(R)=αR2 theories, it has been recently argued that iso-spectrality between scalar and vector modes breaks down. Here, we show that such a break down is quite general across all f(R) theories, as long as they satisfy $$f''(0)/(1+f''(0)) \ne 0$$f′′(0)/(1+f′′(0))≠0, where a prime denotes derivative of the function with respect to its argument. We specifically discuss the origin of the breaking of isospectrality. We also show that along with this breaking the QNMs receive a correction that arises when $$f''(0)/(1+f'(0)) \ne 0$$f′′(0)/(1+f′(0))≠0 owing to the inhomogeneous term that it introduces in the mode equation. We discuss how these differences affect the “ringdown” phase of binary black hole mergers and the possibility of constraining f(R) models with gravitational-wave observations. We also find that even though the iso-spectrality is broken in f(R) theories, in general, nevertheless in the corresponding scalar-tensor theories in the Einstein frame it is unbroken.


2011 ◽  
Vol 84 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian D. Farris ◽  
Yuk Tung Liu ◽  
Stuart L. Shapiro

2008 ◽  
Vol 78 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrich Sperhake ◽  
Emanuele Berti ◽  
Vitor Cardoso ◽  
José A. González ◽  
Bernd Brügmann ◽  
...  

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