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用GW230529测试广义相对论:中子星与低质量间隙致密天体的合并

Tests of General Relativity with GW230529: a neutron star merging with a lower mass-gap compact object

Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)(马克斯·普朗克引力物理学研究所(爱因斯坦研究所));Nikhef – National Institute for Subatomic Physics(尼赫夫国家亚原子物理研究所);Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University(乌得勒支大学引力与亚原子物理研究所(GRASP));Queen Mary University of London(伦敦大学玛丽女王学院);Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge(剑桥大学应用数学与理论物理系);Bar-Ilan University(巴伊兰大学);Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park(马里兰大学帕克分校物理系);Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Universität Potsdam(波茨坦大学物理与天文学研究所)
Elise M. Sänger, Soumen Roy, Michalis Agathos, Ofek Birnholtz, Alessandra Buonanno, Tim Dietrich, Maria Haney, Félix-Louis Julié, Geraint Pratten, Jan Steinhoff… 展开作者

Elise M. Sänger, Soumen Roy, Michalis Agathos, Ofek Birnholtz, Alessandra Buonanno, Tim Dietrich, Maria Haney, Félix-Louis Julié, Geraint Pratten, Jan Steinhoff, Chris Van Den Broeck, Sylvia Biscoveanu, Prasanta Char, Anna Heffernan, Prathamesh Joshi, Atul Kedia, R. M. S. Schofield, M. Trevor, Michael Zevin

AI总结:

利用GW230529信号测试广义相对论,通过允许对后牛顿系数的修正,发现信号与广义相对论一致,并对高斯-博内耦合提出更严格的限制。

摘要:

2023年5月29日,LIGO利文斯顿观测站检测到引力波信号GW230529_181500,来自中子星与低质量间隙致密天体的合并。其长吸积信号为在未被强场测试探索过的参数空间中测试广义相对论(GR)提供了独特机会。本文通过参数化吸积测试GR,允许对频率域引力波相位的偏差修正。使用Flexible Theory Independent and Test Infrastructure For General Relativity框架,采用多种准圆形波形模型,涵盖不同物理效应(高阶模式、自转、潮汐)。发现信号在所有偏差参数下均与GR一致。假设主天体为黑洞,得到-1PN阶偶极辐射的严格限制,比之前来自中子星-黑洞合并GW200115_042309的限制更严格。讨论了分析此信号时出现的挑战,如潮汐效应的偏倚和0PN偏差参数与啁啾质量的退化。为说明GW230529_181500对GR测试的重要性,将其agnostic -1PN结果映射到一类爱因斯坦-标量-高斯-博内(ESGB)引力理论。还进行了分析,探测ESGB理论中预期的特定相位偏差,并得到高斯-博内耦合的上限,比之前报告的任何约束更优。

英文摘要:

On May 29, 2023, the LIGO Livingston observatory detected the gravitational-wave signal GW230529_181500 from the merger of a neutron star with a lower mass-gap compact object. Its long inspiral signal provides a unique opportunity to test general relativity (GR) in a parameter space previously unexplored by strong-field tests. In this work, we performed parameterized inspiral tests of GR with GW230529_181500. Specifically, we search for deviations in the frequency-domain GW phase by allowing for agnostic corrections to the post-Newtonian coefficients. We performed tests with the Flexible Theory Independent and Test Infrastructure For General Relativity frameworks using several quasicircular waveform models that capture different physical effects (higher modes, spins, tides). We find that the signal is consistent with GR for all deviation parameters. Assuming the primary object is a black hole, we obtain particularly tight constraints on the dipole radiation at $-1$PN order of $|δ\hatφ_{-2}| \lesssim 8 \times 10^{-5}$, which is a factor $\sim17$ times more stringent than previous bounds from the neutron star--black hole merger GW200115_042309, as well as on the 0.5PN and 1PN deviation parameters. We discuss some challenges that arise when analyzing this signal, namely biases due to correlations with tidal effects and the degeneracy between the 0PN deviation parameter and the chirp mass. To illustrate the importance of GW230529_181500 for tests of GR, we mapped the agnostic $-1$PN results to a class of Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet (ESGB) theories of gravity. We also conducted an analysis probing the specific phase deviation expected in ESGB theory and obtain an upper bound on the Gauss-Bonnet coupling of $\ell_{\rm GB} \lesssim 0.51~\rm{M}_\odot$ ($\sqrt{α_{\rm GB}} \lesssim 0.28$ km), which is better than any previously reported constraint.

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