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most citedOrbital precession of the S2 star in Scalar-Tensor-Vector-Gravity

65 citations · 306 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

Timing Gravity with Pulsars in the Strong Field

Riccardo Della Monica, Ivan de Martino

We propose a novel approach for the timing of pulsars orbiting a supermassive black hole, which implements the fully relativistic calculations of the photon travel time into a robu…

gr-qc2026

On relativistic observables in black bounce spacetimes

Víctor Ovejero-Bermúdez, Álvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz, Riccardo Della Monica

We investigate the phenomenology of black bounce spacetimes through a combined analytical and numerical study of relativistic observables associated with both time-like and null ge…

gr-qc2026

Relativistic effects in extreme-mass-ratio inspirals within scalar clouds: Eccentric and inclined orbits

Qi-Xuan Xu, Richard Brito, Riccardo Della Monica +2

We study extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) evolving in a scalar cloud environment that may form through superradiant instabilities, using a fully relativistic perturbative frame…

gr-qc2025★ 1 cited

Pulsar timing in the Galactic Center

Riccardo Della Monica, Ivan de Martino

We propose a novel approach which implements the relativistic calculations of the photon travel time into a robust timing model for pulsars orbiting supermassive black holes. We de…

gr-qc2023★ 9 cited

Constraints on metric-affine gravity black holes from the stellar motion at the Galactic Center

Ivan De Martino, Riccardo Della Monica, Diego Rubiera-Garcia

We consider a static, spherically symmetric space-time with an electric field arising from a quadratic metric-affine extension of General Relativity. Such a space-time is free of s…

gr-qc2023

The optical appearance of a nonsingular de Sitter core black hole geometry under several thin disk emissions

I. De Martino, R. Della Monica, D. Rubiera-Garcia

We consider the optical appearance under a thin accretion disk of a regular black hole with a central de Sitter core implementing far-corrections to the Schw…

astro-ph.GA2023

Explaining the oblate morphology of dwarf spheroidals with Wave Dark Matter perturbations

Riccardo Della Monica, Ivan de Martino, Tom Broadhurst

We investigate whether the oblate, spheroidal morphology of common dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSph) may result from the slow relaxation of stellar orbits within a halo of Wave Dark…

gr-qc2023★ 1 cited

Constraining an Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton-axion black hole at the Galactic Center with the orbit of the S2 star

Rebeca Fernández Fernández, Riccardo Della Monica, Ivan de Martino

We derive new constraints on the dilaton parameter appearing in the spherically-symmetric black hole solution of Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton-axion gravity, by studying the geodesic mo…

gr-qc2023★ 15 cited

Testing space-time geometries and theories of gravity at the Galactic Center with pulsar's time delay

Riccardo Della Monica, Ivan de Martino, Mariafelicia de Laurentis

We developed a numerical methodology to compute the fully-relativistic propagation time of photons emitted by a pulsar in orbit around a massive compact object, like the supermassi…

gr-qc2023★ 31 cited

Bounding the mass of ultralight bosonic Dark Matter particles with the motion of the S2 star around Sgr A*

Riccardo Della Monica, Ivan de Martino

Dark matter is undoubtedly one of the fundamental, albeit unknown, components of the standard cosmological model. The failure to detect WIMPs, the most promising candidate particle…

gr-qc2023★ 12 cited

Response to: Comment on "Orbital precession of the S2 star in scalar-tensor-vector gravity"

Riccardo Della Monica, Ivan de Martino, Mariafelicia de Laurentis

The explicit derivation for the orbital precession of the S2 star in the Galactic Center in the Scalar-Tensor-Vector Gravity is discussed and compared with previous research. The t…

gr-qc2022★ 19 cited

Testing Horndeski gravity with S2 star orbit

Riccardo Della Monica, Ivan de Martino, Daniele Vernieri +1

We have explored a completely new and alternative way to restrict the parameter space of Horndeski theory of gravity. Using its Newtonian limit, it is possible to test the theory a…

gr-qc2022★ 31 cited

Are nonsingular black holes with super-Planckian hair ruled out by S2 star data?

M. Cadoni, M. De Laurentis, I. De Martino +3

We propose a novel nonsingular black-hole spacetime representing a strong deformation of the Schwarzschild solution with mass by an additional hair , which may be hierarc…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 31 cited

The Galactic Center as a laboratory for theories of gravity and dark matter

Mariafelicia de Laurentis, Ivan De Martino, Riccardo Della Monica

The Galactic Center of the Milky Way, thanks to its proximity, allows to perform astronomical observations that investigate physical phenomena at the edge of astrophysics and funda…

gr-qc2022★ 15 cited

Constraining MOdified Gravity with the S2 Star

Riccardo Della Monica, Ivan de Martino, Mariafelicia de Laurentis

We have used publicly available kinematic data for the S2 star to constrain the parameter space of MOdified Gravity. Integrating geodesics and using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo algo…

gr-qc2022★ 18 cited

Narrowing the allowed mass range of ultralight bosons with the S2 star

Riccardo Della Monica, Ivan de Martino

It is well known that N-body simulations of ultralight bosons show the formation of a solitonic dark matter core in the innermost part of the halo. The scale length of such a solit…

gr-qc2021★ 58 cited

-gravity after the detection of the orbital precession of the S2 star around the Galactic centre massive black hole

Ivan de Martino, Riccardo della Monica, Mariafelicia de Laurentis

The GRAVITY Collaboration achieved the remarkable detection of the orbital precession of the S2 star around the Galactic centre supermassive black hole, providing yet another proof…

gr-qc2021★ 65 cited

Orbital precession of the S2 star in Scalar-Tensor-Vector-Gravity

Riccardo Della Monica, Ivan de Martino, Mariafelicia de Laurentis

We have obtained the first constraint of the parameter space of Scalar-Tensor-Vector-Gravity using the motion of the S2-star around the supermassive black hole at the centre of the…