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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 116, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061101
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- A*MIDEX Foundation [ANR-11-IDEX-0001-02]
- CNPq
- UFES
- MINECO (Spain) [FIS2014-52837-P]
- Consolider-Ingenio MULTIDARK [CSD2009-00064]
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By using observations of the Hulse-Taylor pulsar, we constrain the gravitational wave (GW) speed to the level of 10(-2). We apply this result to scalar-tensor theories that generalize Galileon 4 and 5 models, which display anomalous propagation speed and coupling to matter for GWs. We argue that this effect survives conventional screening due to the persistence of a scalar field gradient inside virialized overdensities, which effectively pierces the Vainshtein screening. In specific branches of solutions, our result allows us to directly constrain the cosmological couplings in the effective field theory of dark energy formalism.
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