Speaker
Description
Next generation of gravitational wave detectors will have the sensibility to detect potential deviations in gravitational waveforms with respect to general relativity. However, current agnostic tests of gravity with gravitational waves are plagued by a lack of realistic deviations, making it difficult to interpret such detections with respect to specific theories. In this talk, I present a dictionary that identifies the scaling of deviations with the objects’ masses and the leading order post-Newtonian corrections in generic theories constructed through the Effective Field Theory approach based on curvature. In particular, I will demonstrate that a vast set of theories only deviates from General Relativity beginning at a relatively high order. The obtained results can be readily incorporated in all gravitational wave tests already under use by current detectors.
