SPACE seminar: Chiara Montecuollo — "Probing Modified Gravity and Cosmology through Gravitational Waves"
Speaker: Chiara Anna Montecuollo (UNINA)
Title: Probing Modified Gravity and Cosmology through Gravitational Waves
Abstract: The persistent discrepancy between current estimations of the Hubble constant remains one of the most intriguing open questions in modern cosmology. A compelling explanation for this tension could lie in a cosmological evolution of gravity itself, implying deviations from General Relativity on large scales. This scenario can be independently probed through gravitational waves emitted during Binary Neutron Star mergers: the multi-messenger nature of these events provides the perfect framework for a joint Bayesian inference, allowing us to simultaneously constrain modified gravity effects and the Hubble constant.
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