Publications

Review Article

1. Testing General Relativity with Gravitational Waves: An Overview, Invited review article as part of the Special Issue on Current and Future Tests of General Relativity of the journal Universe, N. V. Krishnendu, Frank Ohme, MDPI Link (2022)

Monograph

1. Testing Gravity with Binary Black Hole Gravitational Waves, Marta Colleoni, N. V. Krishnendu, Pierre Mourier, Sayantani Bera, Xisco Jiménez-Forteza, Arxiv:2403.07682 [Review Chapter for the book “Recent Progress on Gravity Tests" (Eds. C. Bambi and A. Cárdenas-Avendaño, Springer Singapore)], Springer Link, (2024)

Other Publications

1. Possible Causes of False General Relativity Violations in Gravitational Wave Observations, Anuradha Gupta and others including N. V. Krishnendu, Arxiv:2404.09181, SciPost Phys. Comm. Rep.5 (2025) [contributed to section 4.2]

2. Unveiling Microlensing Biases in Testing General Relativity with Gravitational Waves, Anuj Mishra, N. V. Krishnendu, Apratim Ganguly, Arxiv:2311.08446, Phys. Rev. D 110, 084009 (2024)

3. Probing black hole ‘charge’ from the binary black hole inspiral, N. V. Krishnendu and Sumanta Chakraborty, Arxiv:2402.15336, Phys. Rev. D 109, 124047 (2024)

4. Inferring spin tilts of binary black holes at formation with plus-era gravitational wave detectors, Sumeet Kulkarni, Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel, Khun Sang Phukon, N. V. Krishnendu, Anuradha Gupta, Arxiv:2308.05098, Phys. Rev. D 109, 043002 (2024)

5. Effect of double spin-precession and higher harmonics on spin-induced quadrupole moment measurements, Divyajyoti, N. V. Krishnendu, Muhammed Saleem, Marta Colleoni, Aditya Vijaykumar, K. G. Arun, Chandra Kant Mishra, Arxiv:2311.05506, Phys. Rev. D 109, 023016 (2024)

6. Constraining the nature of dark compact objects with spin-induced octupole moment measurement, Pankaj Saini and N. V. Krishnendu, Arxiv:2308.01309, Phys. Rev. D 109, 024009 (2023)

7. Distinguishing binary black hole precessional morphologies with gravitational wave observations, Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel, Khun Sang Phukon, N. V. Krishnendu, Anuradha Gupta, Arxiv:2301.10125, Phys. Rev. D 108, 103003 (2023)

8. Population inference of spin-induced quadrupole moments as a probe for non-black hole compact binaries, Muhammed Saleem, N. V. Krishnendu, Abhirup Ghosh, Anuradha Gupta, W. Del Pozzo, Archisman Ghosh, K. G. Arun, Arxiv:2111.04135, Phys. Rev. D 105, 104066 (2022)

9. The interplay of spin-precession and higher harmonics in the parameter estimation of binary blackholes, N. V. Krishnendu, Frank Ohme, Arxiv:2110.00766, Phys.Rev.D 105 (2022) 6, 064012

10. Investigating the relation between gravitational wave tests of general relativity, Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel, Abhirup Ghosh, Sudarshan Ghonge, Muhammed Saleem, N. V. Krishnendu, James A. Clark, Arxiv:2109.06988, Phys.Rev.D 105, 044020 (2022)

11. Testing the Kerr nature of intermediate-mass and supermassive black hole binaries using spin-induced multipole moment measurements, N. V. Krishnendu, A. Yelikar, Class.Quant.Grav. 37 (2020) 20, 205019, arXiv:1904.12712

12. Constraints on the binary black hole nature of GW151226 and GW170608 from the measurement of spin-induced quadrupole moments, N. V. Krishnendu, M. Saleem, A. Samajdar, K. G. Arun, W. Del Pozzo, and Chandra Kant Mishra, arXiv:1908.02247, Phys.Rev.D 100, 104019 (2019)

13. Spin-induced deformations and tests of binary black hole nature using third-generation detectors, N. V. Krishnendu, Chandra Kant Mishra, K. G. Arun, arXiv:1811.00317, Phys. Rev. D 99, 064008 (2018)

14. Testing the binary black hole nature of a compact binary coalescence, N. V. Krishnendu, K. G. Arun, Chandra Kant Mishra, arXiv:1701.06318, Phys.Rev.Lett. 119 (2017) 

15. Tests of General Relativity with the Binary Black Hole Signals from the LIGO-Virgo Catalog GWTC-1, LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration, Abbott et al. including N. V. Krishnendu, arXiv:1903.04467, PhysRevD.100.104036 (2020) [Analysis review contribution]

16. Tests of General Relativity with Binary Black Holes from the second LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog, LIGO-Virgo collaboration, Abbott et al. including N. V. Krishnendu, arXiv:2010.14529, PhysRevD.103.122002 (2020) [Lead analyst and contact person for the Sec. IVB] 

17. GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs, LIGO-Virgo collaboration, Abbott et al. including N. V. Krishnendu, arXiv:1811.12907, Phys. Rev. X 9, 031040 (2019) [Parameter estimation analysis contribution]

18. GWTC-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the First Half of the Third Observing Run, LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration, Abbott et al. including N. V. Krishnendu, arXiv:2010.14527, PhysRevX.11.021053 (2020) [Parameter estimation and inference contribution]

19. GWTC-3: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the Second Part of the Third Observing Run, LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration, Abbott et al. including N. V. Krishnendu, arXiv:2111.03606, PRX 13, 041039, (2023) [Parameter estimation analysis contribution]

20. GW190412: Observation of a Binary-Black-Hole Coalescence with Asymmetric Masses, LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration, Abbott et al. including N. V. Krishnendu, arXiv:2004.08342, PhysRevD.102.043015 (2020) [Analyzed the event using phenomenological waveform model and contributed to the data behind Figs, 2, 3, 5, and 6 and contributions to Fig. 10.]

21. GW190814: Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 23 Solar Mass Black Hole with a 2.6

22. Solar Mass Compact Object, LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration, Abbott et al. including N. V. Krishnendu, arXiv:2006.12611, ApJL 896 L44 (2020) [Tests of nature of compact object lead analyst, contributed to Sec. 6.2]

23. Prospects for Fundamental Physics with LISA, Barausse et al. including N. V. Krishnendu, arXiv:2001.09793, Gen.Rel.Grav. 52 (2020) 8, 81 [Paper writing contribution]

Pre-prints

1. Probing the existence of a minimal length through compact binary inspiral, N. V. Krishnendu, Aldo Perri, Sumanta Chakraborty, Alessandro Pesci Arxiv:2505.2287

2. The Lunar Gravitational-wave Antenna: Mission Studies and Science Case, LGWA Collaboration

3. Arxiv:2404.09181 [contributed to the fundamental physics section]

4. Tests of General Relativity with GWTC-3, LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration, Abbott et al. including N. V. Krishnendu, arXiv:2112.06861 [Editorial team member of the paper and lead analyst for Sec V B, analysis review contribution]

5. Constraining mass of the graviton with GW170817, Andrey A. Shoom, Sumit Kumar, N. V. Krishnendu, Arxiv:2205.15432