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Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: A roadmap (2019)
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Askar, A., Bertone, G., Bon, E., Blas, D., Brito, R., Burrage, C., …Zilhão, M. (2019). Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: A roadmap. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 36(14), Article 143001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ab0587

© 2019 IOP Publishing Ltd. The grand challenges of contemporary fundamental physics-dark matter, dark energy, vacuum energy, inflation and early universe cosmology, singularities and the hierarchy problem-all involve gravity as a key component. And o... Read More about Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: A roadmap.

Spontaneous scalarization in generalized scalar-tensor theory (2019)
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Andreou, N., Franchini, N., Ventagli, G., & Sotiriou, T. P. (2019). Spontaneous scalarization in generalized scalar-tensor theory. Physical Review D, 99(12), https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.99.124022

Spontaneous scalarization is a mechanism that endows relativistic stars and black holes with a nontrivial configuration only when their spacetime curvature exceeds some threshold. The standard way to trigger spontaneous scalarization is via a tachyon... Read More about Spontaneous scalarization in generalized scalar-tensor theory.

Classification of shift-symmetric Horndeski theories and hairy black holes (2019)
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Saravani, M., & Sotiriou, T. P. (2019). Classification of shift-symmetric Horndeski theories and hairy black holes. Physical Review D, 99(12), Article 124004. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.99.124004

No-hair theorems for scalar-tensor theories imply that the trivial scalar field configuration is the unique configuration around stationary black hole spacetimes. The most basic assumption in these theorems is that a constant scalar configuration is... Read More about Classification of shift-symmetric Horndeski theories and hairy black holes.

Self-interactions and spontaneous black hole scalarization (2019)
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Macedo, C. F., Sakstein, J., Berti, E., Gualtieri, L., Silva, H. O., & Sotiriou, T. P. (2019). Self-interactions and spontaneous black hole scalarization. Physical Review D, 99(10), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.99.104041

It has recently been shown that nontrivial couplings between a scalar and the Gauss-Bonnet invariant can give rise to black hole spontaneous scalarization. Theories that exhibit this phenomenon are among the leading candidates for testing gravity wit... Read More about Self-interactions and spontaneous black hole scalarization.

Multipole moments and universal relations for scalarized neutron stars (2019)
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Pappas, G., Doneva, D. D., Sotiriou, T. P., Yazadjiev, S. S., & Kokkotas, K. D. (2019). Multipole moments and universal relations for scalarized neutron stars. Physical Review D, 99(10), Article 104014. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.99.104014

In recent years there has been a surge of interest in what has come to be known as the “universal relations” between various global properties of neutron stars. These universal relations are equation of state independent relations between quantities... Read More about Multipole moments and universal relations for scalarized neutron stars.

Black holes and binary mergers in scalar Gauss-Bonnet gravity: Scalar field dynamics (2019)
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Witek, H., Gualtieri, L., Pani, P., & Sotiriou, T. P. (2019). Black holes and binary mergers in scalar Gauss-Bonnet gravity: Scalar field dynamics. Physical Review D, 99(6), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.99.064035

We study the nonlinear dynamics of black holes that carry scalar hair and binaries composed of such black holes. The scalar hair is due to a linear or exponential coupling between the scalar and the Gauss-Bonnet invariant. We work perturbatively in t... Read More about Black holes and binary mergers in scalar Gauss-Bonnet gravity: Scalar field dynamics.

Stability of scalarized black hole solutions in scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity (2019)
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Silva, H. O., Macedo, C. F., Sotiriou, T. P., Gualtieri, L., Sakstein, J., & Berti, E. (2019). Stability of scalarized black hole solutions in scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity. Physical Review D, 99(6), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.99.064011

Scalar-tensor theories of gravity where a new scalar degree of freedom couples to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant can exhibit the phenomenon of spontaneous black hole scalarization. These theories admit both the classic black hole solutions predicted by g... Read More about Stability of scalarized black hole solutions in scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity.