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most citedDegenerate higher order scalar-tensor theories beyond Horndeski up to cubic order

404 citations · 3.5k across the 37 of their papers we have counts for

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38 papers

gr-qc2026

Impact of sky localization uncertainty on ringdown inference

Kallol Dey, Enrico Barausse, Marco Crisostomi +1

As gravitational-wave ringdown signals grow louder, quasinormal-mode inference depends increasingly on the treatment of extrinsic parameters. Standard analyses fix sky localization…

gr-qc2026

labrador: A domain-optimized machine-learning tool for gravitational wave inference

Javier Roulet, Marco Crisostomi, Lucy M. Thomas +1

Fast and reliable inference of gravitational-wave source parameters is crucial for analyzing large catalogs that are reaching the size of hundreds of detections, and for identifyin…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 2 cited

Beyond diagonal approximations: improved covariance modeling for pulsar timing array data analysis

Marco Crisostomi, Rutger van Haasteren, Patrick M. Meyers +1

Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) searches for nHz gravitational-wave backgrounds (GWBs) typically model time-correlated noise by assuming a diagonal covariance in Fourier space, neglectin…

gr-qc2024★ 15 cited

Fixing the dynamical evolution of self-interacting vector fields

Marcelo E. Rubio, Guillermo Lara, Miguel Bezares +2

Numerical simulations of the Cauchy problem for self-interacting massive vector fields often face instabilities and apparent pathologies. We explicitly demonstrate that these issue…

gr-qc2024★ 1 cited

Rapid parameter estimation for pulsar-timing-array datasets with variational inference and normalizing flows

Michele Vallisneri, Marco Crisostomi, Aaron D. Johnson +1

In the gravitational-wave analysis of pulsar-timing-array datasets, parameter estimation is usually performed using Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods to explore posterior probabilit…

stat.ML2024★ 13 cited

Bayesian evidence estimation from posterior samples with normalizing flows

Rahul Srinivasan, Marco Crisostomi, Roberto Trotta +2

We propose a novel method (), based on normalizing flows, to estimate the Bayesian evidence (and its numerical uncertainty) from a pre-existing set of samples drawn from the…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 27 cited

Implications of the pulsar timing array detections for massive black hole mergers in the LISA band

Enrico Barausse, Kallol Dey, Marco Crisostomi +3

The recent evidence of a stochastic background of gravitational waves in the nHz band by pulsar-timing array (PTA) experiments has shed new light on the formation and evolution of…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 111 cited

The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array: IV. Implications for massive black holes, dark matter and the early Universe

J. Antoniadis, P. Arumugam, S. Arumugam +111

The European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA) and Indian Pulsar Timing Array (InPTA) collaborations have measured a low-frequency common signal in the combination of their second and fir…

gr-qc2023★ 47 cited

Neural Posterior Estimation with guaranteed exact coverage: the ringdown of GW150914

Marco Crisostomi, Kallol Dey, Enrico Barausse +1

We analyze the ringdown phase of the first detected black-hole merger, GW150914, using a simulation-based inference pipeline based on masked autoregressive flows. We obtain approxi…

gr-qc2022★ 12 cited

Robustness of kinetic screening against matter coupling

Guillermo Lara, Miguel Bezares, Marco Crisostomi +1

We investigate neutron star solutions in scalar-tensor theories of gravity with first-order derivative self-interactions in the action and in the matter coupling. We assess the rob…

gr-qc2022

The well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for self-interacting vector fields

Enrico Barausse, Miguel Bezares, Marco Crisostomi +1

We point out that the initial-value (Cauchy) problem for self-interacting vector fields presents the same well-posedness issues as for first-order derivative self-interacting scala…

gr-qc2022★ 317 cited

New Horizons for Fundamental Physics with LISA

K. G. Arun, Enis Belgacem, Robert Benkel +138

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) has the potential to reveal wonders about the fundamental theory of nature at play in the extreme gravity regime, where the gravitatio…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 359 cited

Cosmology with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna

Pierre Auclair, David Bacon, Tessa Baker +177

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) has two scientific objectives of cosmological focus: to probe the expansion rate of the universe, and to understand stochastic gravita…

gr-qc2021★ 50 cited

No evidence of kinetic screening in simulations of merging binary neutron stars beyond general relativity

Miguel Bezares, Ricard Aguilera-Miret, Lotte ter Haar +3

We have conducted fully relativistic simulations in a class of scalar-tensor theories with derivative self-interactions and screening of local scales. By using high-resolution shoc…

gr-qc2021★ 49 cited

Kinetic screening in nonlinear stellar oscillations and gravitational collapse

Miguel Bezares, Lotte ter Haar, Marco Crisostomi +2

We consider k-essence, a scalar-tensor theory with first-order derivative self-interactions that can screen local scales from scalar fifth forces, while allowing for sizeable devia…

hep-th2021★ 2 cited

Degenerate Horava gravity

Enrico Barausse, Marco Crisostomi, Stefano Liberati +1

Horava gravity breaks Lorentz symmetry by introducing a dynamical timelike scalar field (the khronon), which can be used as a preferred time coordinate (thus selecting a preferred…

gr-qc2020★ 39 cited

Dynamics of Screening in Modified Gravity

Lotte ter Haar, Miguel Bezares, Marco Crisostomi +2

Gravitational theories differing from General Relativity may explain the accelerated expansion of the Universe without a cosmological constant. However, to pass local gravitational…

gr-qc2020★ 28 cited

K-dynamics: well-posed 1+1 evolutions in K-essence

Miguel Bezares, Marco Crisostomi, Carlos Palenzuela +1

We study the vacuum Cauchy problem for K-essence, i.e. cosmologically relevant scalar-tensor theories that involve first-order derivative self-interactions, and which pass all exis…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 32 cited

Consistency relations for large-scale structure in modified gravity and the matter bispectrum

Marco Crisostomi, Matthew Lewandowski, Filippo Vernizzi

We study perturbation theory for large-scale structure in the most general scalar-tensor theories propagating a single scalar degree of freedom, which include Horndeski theories an…

gr-qc2019★ 26 cited

Perturbations of a rotating black hole in DHOST theories

Christos Charmousis, Marco Crisostomi, David Langlois +1

We study linear perturbations of a rotating black hole solution that has been recently discovered in degenerate higher-order scalar-tensor (DHOST) theories. We find a parametrizati…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 227 cited

Testing modified gravity at cosmological distances with LISA standard sirens

E. Belgacem, G. Calcagni, M. Crisostomi +18

Modifications of General Relativity leave their imprint both on the cosmic expansion history through a non-trivial dark energy equation of state, and on the evolution of cosmologic…

hep-th2019★ 92 cited

Rotating Black Holes in Higher Order Gravity

Christos Charmousis, Marco Crisostomi, Ruth Gregory +1

We develop a new technique for finding black hole solutions in modified gravity that have "stealth" hair, i.e., hair whose only gravitational effect is to tune the cosmological con…

gr-qc2019★ 74 cited

Vainshtein regime in Scalar-Tensor gravity: constraints on DHOST theories

Marco Crisostomi, Matthew Lewandowski, Filippo Vernizzi

We study the screening mechanism in the most general scalar-tensor theories that leave gravitational waves unaffected and are thus compatible with recent LIGO/Virgo observations. U…

hep-th2018★ 37 cited

Cosmological evolution in DHOST theories

Marco Crisostomi, Kazuya Koyama, David Langlois +2

In the context of Degenerate Higher-Order Scalar-Tensor (DHOST) theories, we study cosmological solutions and their stability properties. In particular, we explicitly illustrate th…