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Tracing Signatures of Modified Gravity in Redshift-Space Galaxy Bispectrum Multipoles: Prospects for Euclid

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2026-05-06 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We study the galaxy bispectrum multipoles in the Hu-Sawicki f(R)f(R) gravity model, where a scalar degree of freedom mediates a fifth force that is screened in high-density environments. The model is specified by fR0f_{R0}, the present-day background value of the scalar field, which controls the strength of deviations from General Relativity (GR). Using perturbation theory, we compute the redshift-space galaxy bispectrum with the full scale- and time-dependent second-order kernels, incorporating corrections from the scale-dependent growth rate and nonlinear screening. Expanding the bispectrum in spherical harmonics, we analyze the sensitivity of the multipoles to modified gravity and forecast their detectability in a \textit{Euclid}-like survey. The monopole (B00B_0^0) and quadrupole (B20B_2^0) show the strongest signatures, with relative deviations of 2%2\%--8%8\% at z=0.7z=0.7 and k10.3hMpc1k_1\simeq0.3\,h\,{\rm Mpc}^{-1} (largest side of the triangle) for fR0=105f_{R0}=10^{-5}. Higher multipoles provide weaker but complementary signals. For \textit{Euclid}, we forecast signal-to-noise ratios up to 30\sim30 for the monopole and 15\sim15 for the quadrupole including the Finger-of-God damping and shot noise effect. These results demonstrate that bispectrum multipoles are a powerful probe of gravity, capable of breaking degeneracies with bias and velocity effects and strengthening constraints on deviations from Λ\LambdaCDM.

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@article{arxiv.2508.19106,
  title  = {Tracing Signatures of Modified Gravity in Redshift-Space Galaxy Bispectrum Multipoles: Prospects for Euclid},
  author = {Sourav Pal and Debanjan Sarkar and Alejandro Aviles},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.19106},
  year   = {2026}
}

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20 pages, 12 figures. Published in PRD