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We study the effect of the cosmological constant on the statistical properties of gravitational lenses in flat cosmologies (Omega_{0}+lambda_{0} = 1). It is shown that some of the lens observables are strongly affected by the cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Deepak Jain , N. Panchapakesan , S. Mahajan , V. B. Bhatia

We present forecasted cosmological constraints from combined measurements of galaxy cluster abundances from the Simons Observatory and galaxy clustering from a DESI-like experiment on two well-studied modified gravity models, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Rayne Liu , Georgios Valogiannis , Nicholas Battaglia , Rachel Bean

Cosmological structures grow differently in theories of gravity which are modified as compared to Einstein's General relativity (GR). Cosmic microwave background (CMB) fluctuation patterns at the last scattering surface are lensed by these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 Toshiya Namikawa , François R. Bouchet , Atsushi Taruya

We present updated constraints on modified gravity by including the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect from CMB lensing-CMB temperature cross-correlations, based on the latest Planck PR4 maps. Utilizing the Effective Field Theory of dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-16 Anton Chudaykin , Martin Kunz , Julien Carron

Most of the information on our cosmos stems from either late-time observations or the imprint of early-time inhomogeneities on the cosmic microwave background. We explore to what extent early modifications of gravity, which become…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-10 Nelson A. Lima , Vanessa Smer-Barreto , Lucas Lombriser

We perform observational tests of modified gravity on cosmological scales following model-dependent and model-independent approaches using the latest astronomical observations, including measurements of the local Hubble constant, cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-04 Jian Li , Gong-Bo Zhao

We describe a methodology to probe gravity with the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing convergence $\kappa$, specifically by measuring $E_G$, the ratio of the Laplacian of the gravitational scalar potential difference with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Anthony R. Pullen , Shadab Alam , Shirley Ho

We present a convolutional neural network to classify distinct cosmological scenarios based on the statistically similar weak-lensing maps they generate. Modified gravity (MG) models that include massive neutrinos can mimic the standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Austin Peel , Florian Lalande , Jean-Luc Starck , Valeria Pettorino , Julian Merten , Carlo Giocoli , Massimo Meneghetti , Marco Baldi

Significant adjustments to the values of the cosmological parameters estimated from high-redshift Type Ia Supernov\ae data are reported, almost an order of magnitude greater than previously found. They arise from the effects of weak…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Andrew J. Barber

We explore the sensitivity of weak gravitational lensing to second-order corrections to the spacetime metric within a cosmological adaptation of the parameterized post-Newtonian framework. Whereas one might expect nonlinearities of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 R. Ali Vanderveld , Robert R. Caldwell , Jason Rhodes

We performed a Bayesian study on three beyond LCDM phenomenological triggering parameters, the growth index $\gamma$, the dark energy equation of state parameter $w$ and the lensing deviation from the GR prediction parameter $\Sigma$, using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-06 Ziad Sakr

Future weak lensing surveys will directly probe the density fluctuation in the universe. Recent studies have shown how the statistics of the weak lensing convergence field is related to the statistics of collapsed objects. Extending earlier…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dipak Munshi

Assessing the probability that two or more gravitational waves (GWs) are lensed images of the same source requires an understanding of the image properties, including their relative phase shifts in strong lensing (SL). For non-precessing,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-31 Jose María Ezquiaga , Daniel E. Holz , Wayne Hu , Macarena Lagos , Robert M. Wald

In the present work, we derive the motion of light in the weak-field limit of energy-momentum-squared gravity (EMSG). To do so, we introduce the post-Newtonian (PN) expansion of this modified theory of gravity. It is shown that in addition…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-25 Elham Nazari

In the literature, it was proposed that the growth index $\gamma$ is useful to distinguish the scenarios of dark energy and modified gravity. In the present work, we consider the constraints on the growth index $\gamma$ by using the latest…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-22 Zhao-Yu Yin , Hao Wei

We present measurements of the radial gravitational acceleration around isolated galaxies, comparing the expected gravitational acceleration given the baryonic matter with the observed gravitational acceleration, using weak lensing…

Modified Gravity theories generally affect the Poisson equation and the gravitational slip (effective anisotropic stress) in an observable way, that can be parameterized by two generic functions ($\eta$ and $\mu$) of time and space. We bin…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-06 Santiago Casas , Martin Kunz , Matteo Martinelli , Valeria Pettorino

We present a new measurement of $E_{\rm G}$, which combines measurements of weak gravitational lensing, real-space galaxy clustering and redshift space distortions. This statistic was proposed as a consistency test of General Relativity…

Measurements of the growth index $\gamma(z)$ provide a clue as to whether Einstein's field equations encompass gravity also on large cosmic scales, those where the expansion of the universe accelerates. We show that the information encoded…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Heinrich Steigerwald , Julien Bel , Christian Marinoni

General relativity as one the pillar of modern cosmology has to be thoroughly tested if we want to achieve an accurate cosmology. We present the results from such a test on cosmological scales using cosmic shear and galaxy clustering…