Unveiling the Galileon in a three-body system: scalar and gravitational wave production

@article{Brax2020UnveilingTG,
  title={Unveiling the Galileon in a three-body system: scalar and gravitational wave production},
  author={Philippe Brax and Lavinia Heisenberg and Adrien Kuntz},
  journal={Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics},
  year={2020}
}
We consider the prospect of detecting cubic Galileons through their imprint on gravitational wave signals from a triple system. Namely, we consider a massive Black Hole (BH) surrounded by a binary system of two smaller BHs. We assume that the three BHs acquire a conformal coupling to the scalar field whose origin could be due to cosmology or to the galactic environment. In this case, the massive BH has a Vainshtein radius which englobes the smaller ones and suppresses the scalar effects on the… 
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