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利用引力波观测检验引力的广义相对论和替代理论

Tests of General Relativity and Alternative theories of gravity using Gravitational Wave observations

K G Arun, Archana Pai

摘要:

对合并紧密双星的引力波观测将是对相对论引力的强场和动力学方面的独特探索。我们提出了一个简短的回顾文献中提出的各种计划,以测试广义相对论(GR)和替代理论的重力使用inspiral波形。广义上,这些方案可以分为两类:模型相关和模型无关。在依赖模型的类别中,GW观测与代表特定理论或一类理论(如标量张量理论,动力学陈-西蒙斯理论和大质量引力子理论)的特定波形模型进行比较。模型独立测试是试图写下一个参数化的重力波形,其中自由参数对于不同的理论采取不同的值,并且(至少其中一些)可以受到GW观测的约束。我们重新审视一些建议的界限的情况下,缩小LISA配置(eLISA),并将它们与原始的LISA配置。我们还比较了地基和天基探测器的替代重力理论的预期界限,发现天基GW探测器可以以前所未有的精度测试GR和其他重力理论。然后,我们专注于最近的建议,使用奇异值分解(SVD)的Fisher信息矩阵,以提高精度后牛顿(PN)理论可以测试。我们将这些结果扩展到基于空间的探测器eLISA的情况下,并讨论其影响。

英文摘要:

Gravitational Wave (GW) observations of coalescing compact binaries will be unique probes of strong-field, dynamical aspects of relativistic gravity. We present a short review of various schemes proposed in the literature to test General Relativity (GR) and alternative theories of gravity using inspiral waveforms. Broadly these schemes may be classified into two types: model dependent and model independent. In the model dependent category, GW observations are compared against a specific waveform model representative of a particular theory or a class of theories like Scalar-Tensor theories, Dynamical Chern-Simons theory and Massive graviton theories. Model independent tests are attempts to write down a parametrised gravitational waveform where the free parameters take different values for different theories and (at least some of) which can be constrained by GW observations. We revisit some of the proposed bounds in the case of downscaled LISA configuration (eLISA) and compare them with the original LISA configuration. We also compare the expected bounds on alternative theories of gravity from ground-based and space-based detectors and find that space-based GW detectors can test GR and other theories of gravity with unprecedented accuracies. We then focus on a recent proposal to use singular value decomposition (SVD) of the Fisher information matrix to improve the accuracies with which Post-Newtonian (PN) theory can be tested. We extend those results to the case of space based detector eLISA and discuss its implications.

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