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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 843, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa72e2
Keywords
accretion, accretion disks; black hole physics; gravitation; X-rays: binaries
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- FCT-Portugal [IF/00293/2013]
- ASI-INAF contract [I/004/11/1]
- H-MSCA-RISE Grant [StronGrHEP-690904]
- COST action CA1610 GWverse
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Future very-large-area X-ray instruments (for which the. effective area is. larger than >3 m(2)) will be able to measure the frequencies of quasi-periodic oscillations. (QPOs) observed in the X-ray flux from accreting compact objects with sub-percent precision. If correctly modeled, QPOs can provide a novel way to test the strong-field regime of gravity. By using the relativistic precession model and a modified version of the epicyclic resonance model, we develop a method to test general relativity against a generic class of theories with quadratic curvature corrections. With the instrumentation being studied for future missions such as eXTP, LOFT, or STROBE-X, a measurement of at least two QPO triplets from a stellar mass black hole can set stringent constraints on the coupling parameters of quadratic gravity.
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