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Probing quadratic gravity with black-hole ringdown gravitational waves measured by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA detectors

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arxiv 2506.14695 v1 pith:75GPXG2W submitted 2025-06-17 gr-qc astro-ph.HE

Probing quadratic gravity with black-hole ringdown gravitational waves measured by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA detectors

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Quadratic gravity theories emerge as the low-energy limit of many grand-unified and quantum-gravity theories. We report the first gravitational-wave ringdown constraints on such theories obtained purely from the quasinormal-mode spectra of rapidly-spinning black-hole remnants. We find no quadratic-gravity signatures from ringdown signals measured by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA detectors, thereby constraining the coupling length scale of axi-dilaton gravity below 34 km, dynamical Chern-Simons gravity below 49 km, and scalar Gauss-Bonnet gravity below 47 km.

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