Publications (18)
Probing string-inspired gravity with the inspiral-merger-ringdown consistency tests of gravitational waves
Zack Carson, Kent Yagi
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…
Parameterized and inspiral-merger-ringdown consistency tests of gravity with multi-band gravitational wave observations
Zack Carson, Kent Yagi
The gravitational wave observations of colliding black holes have opened a new window into the unexplored extreme gravity sector of physics, where the gravitational fields are imme…
A tapestry of gravitational waveforms to study black hole mergers
Zack Carson
A novel approach to binary black hole gravitational wave analysis improves the process of inferring black hole properties by selecting the most accurate waveform model for each reg…
Multi-band gravitational wave tests of general relativity
Zack Carson, Kent Yagi
The violent collisions of black holes provide for excellent test-beds of Einstein's general relativity in the strong/dynamical gravity regime. We here demonstrate the resolving pow…
Probing Einstein-dilaton Gauss-Bonnet Gravity with the inspiral and ringdown of gravitational waves
Zack Carson, Kent Yagi
Gravitational waves from extreme gravity events such as the coalescence of two black holes in a binary system fill our observable universe, bearing with them the underlying theory…
Regularizing Parameterized Black Hole Spacetimes with Kerr Symmetries
Kent Yagi, Samantha Lomuscio, Tristen Lowrey +1
Parameterized Kerr spacetimes allow us to test the nature of black holes in model-independent ways. Such spacetimes contain several arbitrary functions and, as a matter of practica…
Equation-of-state insensitive relations after GW170817
Zack Carson, Katerina Chatziioannou, Carl-Johan Haster +2
The thermodynamic relation between pressure and density (i.e. the equation of state) of cold supranuclear matter is critical in describing neutron stars, yet it remains one of the…
Testing Gravity with Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Hole Mergers: Contributions from Amplitude Corrections
Shammi Tahura, Kent Yagi, Zack Carson
The detection of gravitational waves has offered us the opportunity to explore the dynamical and strong-field regime of gravity. Because matched filtering is more sensitive to vari…
Future Prospects for Constraining Nuclear Matter Parameters with Gravitational Waves
Zack Carson, Andrew W. Steiner, Kent Yagi
The gravitational wave emission from the merging binary neutron star system GW170817 arrived full of tidal information which can be used to probe the fundamental ultra-dense nuclea…
Future Prospects for Probing Scalar-Tensor Theories with Gravitational Waves from Mixed Binaries
Zack Carson, Brian C. Seymour, Kent Yagi
The extreme-gravity collisions of binaries with one black hole and one neutron star provide for excellent tests of general relativity. We here study how well one can constrain theo…
Probing Fundamental Physics with Gravitational Waves
Zack Carson
The explosive coalescence of two black holes 1.3 billion light years away has for the very first time allowed us to peer into the extreme gravity region of spacetime surrounding th…
Parameterized and Consistency Tests of Gravity with Gravitational Waves: Current and Future
Zack Carson, Kent Yagi
Gravitational wave observations offer unique opportunities to probe gravity in the strong and dynamical regime, which was difficult to access previously. We here review two theory-…
Probing beyond-Kerr spacetimes with inspiral-ringdown corrections to gravitational waves
Zack Carson, Kent Yagi
Gravitational waves from the explosive merger of distant black holes are encoded with details regarding the complex extreme-gravity spacetime present at their source. Famously desc…
Testing General Relativity with Gravitational Waves
Zack Carson, Kent Yagi
Gravitational-wave sources offer us unique testbeds for probing strong-field, dynamical and nonlinear aspects of gravity. In this chapter, we give a brief overview of the current s…
Constraining nuclear matter parameters with GW170817
Zack Carson, Andrew W. Steiner, Kent Yagi
The tidal measurement of gravitational waves from the binary neutron star merger event GW170817 allows us to probe nuclear physics that suffers less from astrophysical systematics…
Asymptotically flat, parameterized black hole metric preserving Kerr symmetries
Zack Carson, Kent Yagi
Recently the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, with very-long baseline interferometric observations, resolved structure at the scale of Schwarzschild radii about the c…
Measuring Nuclear Matter Parameters with NICER and LIGO/Virgo
Josef Zimmerman, Zack Carson, Kristen Schumacher +2
The NICER Collaboration recently reported the measurement of the mass and radius of a pulsar PSR J0030+0451. We here use this new measurement to constrain one of the higher-order n…
The Effect of Mission Duration on LISA Science Objectives
Pau Amaro Seoane, Manuel Arca Sedda, Stanislav Babak +38
The science objectives of the LISA mission have been defined under the implicit assumption of a 4 yr continuous data stream. Based on the performance of LISA Pathfinder, it is now…