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A Short Introduction to Cosmology and its Current Status

(2025)

Authors:

Pedro G Ferreira, Alexander Roskill

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Cosmological constraints from the angular power spectrum and bispectrum of luminous red galaxies and CMB lensing

(2025)

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Francesco Verdiani, Lea Harscouet, Matteo Zennaro, David Alonso, Boryana Hadzhiyska
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Scalar fields around black hole binaries in LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA

(2025)

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Soumen Roy, Rodrigo Vicente, Josu C Aurrekoetxea, Katy Clough, Pedro G Ferreira
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Low-redshift constraints on structure growth from CMB lensing tomography

(2025)

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Andrea Rubiola, Matteo Zennaro, Carlos García-García, David Alonso
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Challenges in the nonlinear evolution of unequal mass binaries in scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity

Physical Review D 112:8 (2025)

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LA Saló, DD Doneva, K Clough, P Figueras, SS Yazadjiev

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It has only recently become possible to simulate the full nonlinear dynamics of binary black holes in scalar-Gauss-Bonnet theories of gravity. The simulations remain technically challenging and evolutions of unequal mass binaries in particular have been difficult to follow through the merger. Even when the merger is successful, accurately quantifying the physical dephasing, as opposed to contributions from transients in the initial data and gauge adjustments, remains difficult. We show the first full simulations of 2∶1 and 3∶1 binaries through merger, and we discuss how specific choices in the setup affect the dephasing observed and our ability to obtain reliable results. In cases with weaker couplings, we match the expected PN value for the dephasing, whereas for larger couplings, eccentricity introduced by the initial data transients can lead to artificial deviations. Our work highlights the need for improvements in the initial data methods used, to ensure reliable waveforms are obtained for data analysis in beyond-GR models.
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