Pith. sign in

REVIEW 3 cited by

Compact stars in Eddington inspired gravity

Not yet reviewed by Pith; the record is open.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet. Machine review is queued; the pith claim, tier, and objections will appear here once it completes.

SPECIMEN: schema-true, not a live event

T0 review · schema-true

One-sentence machine reading of the paper's core claim.

pith:XXXXXXXX · record.json · timestamp

arxiv 1106.3569 v1 pith:Q6TGVOAJ submitted 2011-06-17 gr-qc astro-ph.HEhep-th

Compact stars in Eddington inspired gravity

classification gr-qc astro-ph.HEhep-th
keywords parameterstarstheorycompactcouplingeddingtongravityinspired
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal T4 reserved
0 comments
read the original abstract

A new, Eddington inspired theory of gravity was recently proposed by Banados and Ferreira. It is equivalent to General Relativity in vacuum, but differs from it inside matter. This viable, one parameter theory was shown to avoid cosmological singularities and turns out to lead to many other exciting new features that we report here. First, for a positive coupling parameter, the field equations have a dramatic impact on the collapse of dust, and do not lead to singularities. We further find that the theory supports stable, compact pressureless stars made of perfect fluid, which provide interesting models of self-gravitating dark matter. Finally, we show that the mere existence of relativistic stars imposes a strong, near optimal constraint on the coupling parameter, which can even be improved by observations of the moment of inertia of the double pulsar.

discussion (0)

Sign in with ORCID, Apple, or X to comment. Anyone can read and Pith papers without signing in.

Forward citations

Cited by 3 Pith papers

Reviewed papers in the Pith corpus that reference this work. Sorted by Pith novelty score.

  1. Studying spherical collapse and its implications in the Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity theory

    astro-ph.CO 2026-04 unverdicted novelty 7.0

    In EiBI gravity, spherical collapse yields lower linear thresholds, higher turnaround and virial overdensities, and modestly smaller turnaround radii than in ΛCDM, with effects increasing with the coupling κ̂_BI.

  2. Studying spherical collapse and its implications in the Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity theory

    astro-ph.CO 2026-04 unverdicted novelty 6.0

    In EiBI gravity, spherical collapse needs regularized density profiles to handle singular gradient terms, yielding a lower linear collapse threshold, higher turnaround and virial overdensities, and slightly smaller tu...

  3. Testing General Relativity with Present and Future Astrophysical Observations

    gr-qc 2015-01 accept novelty 2.0

    A review summarizing modified theories of gravity, their effects on compact objects, existing bounds from astrophysical observations, and the promise of future gravitational wave tests for strong-field gravity.