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The recent detections of gravitational waves by the advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors open a formidable way to set constraints on alternative metric theories of gravity in the strong field regime. Such tests rely sensitively on the phase evolution of the gravitational waves, which is controlled by the energy momentum carried by such waves out of the system. The weak-field limit of alternative metric theories shows new aspects of gravitation which are not present in general relativity and exhibits new gravitational field modes which can easily be interpreted as massive gravitons. The study of the generation, propagation, and detection of gravitational waves in the weak-field limit of a given relativistic theory of gravity is an important part of astrophysics.
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IDM acknowledges support from MICINN (Spain) under de project IJCI2018-036198-I. IDM is also supported by Junta de Castilla y Len (SA096P20), and Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacin y Universidades and FEDER (PGC2018-096038-B-I00). MDL acknowledges INFN Sez. di Napoli (Iniziative Specifica TEONGRAV and QGSKY).
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Laurentis, M.D., Martino, I.D. (2022). Emission of Gravitational Radiation in Scalar-Tensor and f(R)-Theories. In: Bambi, C., Katsanevas, S., Kokkotas, K.D. (eds) Handbook of Gravitational Wave Astronomy. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4306-4_40
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