Speaker
Kent Yagi
(University of Virginia)
Description
One natural extension of General Relativity is to introduce a quadratic-curvature correction to the action that is coupled to a scalar field. Such quadratic gravity includes Einstein-dilaton Gauss-Bonnet and dynamical Chern-Simons gravity that are motivated by certain types of string theory. The scalar field induces additional interaction and radiation to compact binary systems. In this talk, I will explain how well one can probe quadratic gravity with current and future gravitational wave observations.
Primary authors
Kent Yagi
(University of Virginia)
Mr
Albert Bryant
(University of Virginia)
Dr
Zack Carson
(University of Virginia)
Prof.
Kostas Glampedakis
(University of Murcia)
Mr
Brian Seymour
(California Institute of Technology)
Dr
Hector Silva
(Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)
