Publications

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2026

Dynamics of Relativistic Binaries in Structured and Stochastic Environments: A Lagrange-Fourier-Hansen Framework

Lorenz Zwick, Conor Dyson, Brian C. Seymour, János Takátsy, and

Jun 2026

@article{Zwick:2026thw,
  author = {Zwick, Lorenz and Dyson, Conor and Seymour, Brian C. and Tak{\'a}tsy, J{\'a}nos and Samsing, Johan},
  title = {{Dynamics of Relativistic Binaries in Structured and Stochastic Environments: A Lagrange-Fourier-Hansen Framework}},
  eprint = {2606.27526},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  month = jun,
  year = {2026}
}

PRD

Inspiral tests of general relativity and waveform geometry

Brian C. Seymour, Jacob Golomb, and Yanbei Chen

Phys. Rev. D, 2026

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@article{Seymour:2026bjg,
  author = {Seymour, Brian C. and Golomb, Jacob and Chen, Yanbei},
  title = {{Inspiral tests of general relativity and waveform geometry}},
  eprint = {2602.17524},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1103/nw3l-qld4},
  journal = {Phys. Rev. D},
  volume = {114},
  number = {2},
  pages = {024059},
  year = {2026}
}

PRD

Prospects for high-frequency gravitational-wave detection with GEO600

Christopher M. Jungkind, Brian C. Seymour, Andrew Laeuger, and Yanbei Chen

Phys. Rev. D, 2026

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@article{Jungkind:2025oqm,
  author = {Jungkind, Christopher M. and Seymour, Brian C. and Laeuger, Andrew and Chen, Yanbei},
  title = {{Prospects for high-frequency gravitational-wave detection with GEO600}},
  eprint = {2506.08315},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1103/y3h1-lqy3},
  journal = {Phys. Rev. D},
  volume = {113},
  number = {2},
  pages = {024057},
  year = {2026}
}

PRL

Gravitational-Wave Signatures of Nonviolent Nonlocality

Brian C. Seymour and Yanbei Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett., 2026

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@article{Seymour:2024orl,
  author = {Seymour, Brian C. and Chen, Yanbei},
  title = {{Gravitational-Wave Signatures of Nonviolent Nonlocality}},
  eprint = {2411.13714},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1103/yj2l-3hml},
  journal = {Phys. Rev. Lett.},
  volume = {136},
  number = {1},
  pages = {011401},
  year = {2026}
}

2025

Thesis

Future Prospects in Gravitational Waves: From Testing Fundamental Physics to Instruments beyond LIGO

Brian Christopher Seymour

PhD thesis, Caltech, 2025

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  author = {Seymour, Brian Christopher},
  title = {{Future Prospects in Gravitational Waves: From Testing Fundamental Physics to Instruments beyond LIGO}},
  doi = {10.7907/ask9-zk26},
  school = {Caltech},
  year = {2025}
}

2024

PRD

Measuring supermassive black hole properties via gravitational radiation from eccentrically orbiting stellar mass black hole binaries

Andrew Laeuger, Brian Seymour, Yanbei Chen, and Hang Yu

Phys. Rev. D, 2024

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@article{Laeuger:2023qyz,
  author = {Laeuger, Andrew and Seymour, Brian and Chen, Yanbei and Yu, Hang},
  title = {{Measuring supermassive black hole properties via gravitational radiation from eccentrically orbiting stellar mass black hole binaries}},
  eprint = {2310.16799},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.109.064086},
  journal = {Phys. Rev. D},
  volume = {109},
  number = {6},
  pages = {064086},
  year = {2024}
}

2023

PRD

Multiband gravitational wave cosmography with dark sirens

Brian C. Seymour, Hang Yu, and Yanbei Chen

Phys. Rev. D, 2023

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@article{Seymour:2022teq,
  author = {Seymour, Brian C. and Yu, Hang and Chen, Yanbei},
  title = {{Multiband gravitational wave cosmography with dark sirens}},
  eprint = {2208.01668},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.108.044038},
  journal = {Phys. Rev. D},
  volume = {108},
  number = {4},
  pages = {044038},
  year = {2023}
}

2022

ApJ

Uncertainty and Bias of Cosmology and Astrophysical Population Model from Statistical Dark Sirens

Hang Yu, Brian Seymour, Yijun Wang, and Yanbei Chen

Astrophys. J., 2022

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@article{Yu:2022spx,
  author = {Yu, Hang and Seymour, Brian and Wang, Yijun and Chen, Yanbei},
  title = {{Uncertainty and Bias of Cosmology and Astrophysical Population Model from Statistical Dark Sirens}},
  eprint = {2206.09984},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {astro-ph.CO},
  doi = {10.3847/1538-4357/ac9da0},
  journal = {Astrophys. J.},
  volume = {941},
  number = {2},
  pages = {174},
  year = {2022}
}

2021

PRD

Detecting gravitational lensing in hierarchical triples in galactic nuclei with space-borne gravitational-wave observatories

Hang Yu, Yijun Wang, Brian Seymour, and Yanbei Chen

Phys. Rev. D, 2021

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@article{Yu:2021dqx,
  author = {Yu, Hang and Wang, Yijun and Seymour, Brian and Chen, Yanbei},
  title = {{Detecting gravitational lensing in hierarchical triples in galactic nuclei with space-borne gravitational-wave observatories}},
  eprint = {2107.14318},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.104.103011},
  journal = {Phys. Rev. D},
  volume = {104},
  number = {10},
  pages = {103011},
  year = {2021}
}

2020

PRD

Probing massive scalar and vector fields with binary pulsars

Brian C. Seymour and Kent Yagi

Phys. Rev. D, 2020

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@article{Seymour:2020yle,
  author = {Seymour, Brian C. and Yagi, Kent},
  title = {{Probing massive scalar and vector fields with binary pulsars}},
  eprint = {2007.14881},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.102.104003},
  journal = {Phys. Rev. D},
  volume = {102},
  number = {10},
  pages = {104003},
  year = {2020}
}

CQG

Probing Massive Scalar Fields from a Pulsar in a Stellar Triple System

Brian C. Seymour and Kent Yagi

Class. Quant. Grav., 2020

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@article{Seymour:2019tir,
  author = {Seymour, Brian C. and Yagi, Kent},
  title = {{Probing Massive Scalar Fields from a Pulsar in a Stellar Triple System}},
  eprint = {1908.03353},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1088/1361-6382/ab9933},
  journal = {Class. Quant. Grav.},
  volume = {37},
  number = {14},
  pages = {145008},
  year = {2020}
}

CQG

Future prospects for probing scalar–tensor theories with gravitational waves from mixed binaries

Zack Carson, Brian C. Seymour, and Kent Yagi

Class. Quant. Grav., 2020

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@article{Carson:2019fxr,
  author = {Carson, Zack and Seymour, Brian C. and Yagi, Kent},
  title = {{Future prospects for probing scalar{\textendash}tensor theories with gravitational waves from mixed binaries}},
  eprint = {1907.03897},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1088/1361-6382/ab6a1f},
  journal = {Class. Quant. Grav.},
  volume = {37},
  number = {6},
  pages = {065008},
  year = {2020}
}

2018

PRD

Testing General Relativity with Black Hole-Pulsar Binaries

Brian C. Seymour and Kent Yagi

Phys. Rev. D, 2018

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@article{Seymour:2018bce,
  author = {Seymour, Brian C. and Yagi, Kent},
  title = {{Testing General Relativity with Black Hole-Pulsar Binaries}},
  eprint = {1808.00080},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.98.124007},
  journal = {Phys. Rev. D},
  volume = {98},
  number = {12},
  pages = {124007},
  year = {2018}
}