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Post-Newtonian parameters and cosmological constant of screened modified gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2016-06-14 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

Screened modified gravity (SMG) is a kind of scalar-tensor theories with screening mechanisms, which can generate screening effect to suppress the fifth force in high density environments and pass the solar system tests. Meanwhile, the potential of scalar field in the theories can drive the acceleration of the late universe. In this paper, we calculate the parameterized post-Newtonian (PPN) parameters γ\gamma and β\beta, the effective gravitational constant GeffG_{\rm eff} and the effective cosmological constant Λ\Lambda for SMG with a general potential VV and coupling function AA. The dependence of these parameters on the model parameters of SMG and/or the physical properties of the source object are clearly presented. As an application of these results, we focus on three specific theories of SMG (chameleon, symmetron and dilaton models). Using the formulae to calculate their PPN parameters and cosmological constant, we derive the constraints on the model parameters by combining the observations on solar system and cosmological scales.

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@article{arxiv.1603.09450,
  title  = {Post-Newtonian parameters and cosmological constant of screened modified gravity},
  author = {Xing Zhang and Wen Zhao and He Huang and Yifu Cai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.09450},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

15 pages, 1 figure, Phys. Rev. D accepted