Black hole binaries in shift-symmetric Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity

arXiv:2511.19073 · gr-qc, astro-ph.HE, hep-ph · Submitted 2025-11-24 · Read on arXiv

gr-qc, astro-ph.HE, hep-ph

Submitted: 2025-11-24

Updated: 2026-10-13

Terminology

• Alignment — 18× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Initial Data — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Apparent Horizon — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Supplemental Material — 2× in this paper
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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