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Cosmological gravity on all scales IV: 3x2pt Fisher forecasts for pixelised phenomenological modified gravity

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2025-03-03 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Stage IV large scale structure surveys are promising probes of gravity on cosmological scales. Due to the vast model-space in the modified gravity literature, model-independent parameterisations represent useful and scalable ways to test extensions of Λ\LambdaCDM. In this work we use a recently validated approach of computing the non-linear 3×23\times 2pt observables in modified gravity models with a time-varying effective gravitational constant μ\mu and a gravitational slip η\eta that is binned in redshift to produce Fisher forecasts for an LSST Y10-like survey. We also include in our modelling an effective nulling scheme for weak-lensing by applying the BNT transformation that localises the weak-lensing kernel enabling well-informed scale cuts. We show that the combination of improved non-linear modelling and better control of the scales that are modelled/cut yields high precision constraints on the cosmological and modified gravity parameters. We find that 4 redshift bins for μ\mu of width corresponding to equal incremental Λ\LambdaCDM growth is optimal given the state-of-the-art modelling and show how the BNT transformation can be used to mitigate the impact of small-scale systematic effects, such as baryonic feedback.

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@article{arxiv.2409.06569,
  title  = {Cosmological gravity on all scales IV: 3x2pt Fisher forecasts for pixelised phenomenological modified gravity},
  author = {Sankarshana Srinivasan and Daniel B Thomas and Peter L. Taylor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.06569},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

27 pages, 12 figures A few typos corrected and a couple of small changes made to the text to improve presentation of results, added missing reference. Comments welcome!