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Evading the Vainshtein Mechanism with Anomalous Gravitational Wave Speed: Constraints on Modified Gravity from Binary Pulsars
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By using observations of the Hulse-Taylor pulsar, we constrain the gravitational wave (GW) speed to the level of 10(-2). We apply this result to scalar-tensor theories that generalize Galileon 4 and 5 models, which display anomalous propagation speed and coupling to matter for GWs. We argue that this effect survives conventional screening due to the persistence of a scalar field gradient inside virialized overdensities, which effectively "pierces" the Vainshtein screening. In specific branches of solutions, our result allows us to directly constrain the cosmological couplings in the effective field theory of dark energy formalism.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Beltrán Jiménez, J., Piazza, F., & Velten, H.
- Affiliations
- Aix-Marseille Université (FR)
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 2016-02-09
- Volume
- 116
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 061101-061101
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
- OpenAlex
- W1563822511
- Cited by
- 129
- References
- 47
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- FWCI
- 13.23
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- arxiv.org
- Locations
- Physical Review Letters (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
- Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
- A*MIDEX Foundation (ANR-11-IDEX-0001-02)
- UFES
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories
- Keywords
- Vainshtein mechanism, gravitational wave speed, modified gravity, binary pulsars, scalar-tensor gravity, Galileon, screening, scalar field gradient, effective field theory of dark energy
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