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The growth rate of large-scale structure provides a powerful consistency test of the standard cosmological model and a probe of possible deviations from general relativity. We use a Fisher analysis to forecast constraints on the growth rate…

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We study the main cosmological properties of the Generalized Chaplygin Gas (GCG) dark energy model at the background and perturbation levels. By using the latest cosmological data in both the background and perturbation levels, we implement…

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We present measurements of both scale- and time-dependent deviations from the standard gravitational field equations. These late-time modifications are introduced separately for relativistic and non-relativistic particles, by way of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-16 Andrew Johnson , Chris Blake , Jason Dossett , Jun Koda , David Parkinson , Shahab Joudaki

A key task in cosmology is to test the validity of general relativity (GR) at cosmological scales and, therefore, to distinguish between dark energy and modified gravity (MG) as the driver of the late-time cosmic acceleration. The decay…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-07 Xinyi Zhao , Pengjie Zhang , Fuyu Dong

We derive an exact analytical solution for the redshift evolution of linear and scale-independent bias, by solving a second order differential equation based on linear perturbation theory. This bias evolution model is applicable to all…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-08 S. Basilakos , M. Plionis , A. Pouri

In this work, we test consistency relations between a kinematic probe, the observational Hubble data, and a dynamical probe, the growth rates for cosmic large scale structure, which should hold if general relativity is the correct theory of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-18 Xiao-Wei Duan , Min Zhou , Tong-Jie Zhang

The next generation of galaxy surveys will provide highly accurate measurements of the large-scale structure of the Universe, allowing for more stringent tests of gravity on cosmological scales. Higher order statistics are a valuable tool…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Alejandro Aviles , Gustavo Niz

The bulk motion of galaxies induced by the growth of cosmic structure offers a rare opportunity to test the validity of general relativity across cosmological scales. However, modified gravity can be degenerate in its effect with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-02 Fergus Simpson , John A. Peacock

The next generation of surveys will greatly improve our knowledge of cosmological gravity. In this paper we focus on how Stage IV photometric redshift surveys, including weak lensing and multiple tracers of the matter distribution and radio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-18 David Alonso , Emilio Bellini , Pedro G. Ferreira , Miguel Zumalacarregui

An important route to testing General Relativity (GR) at cosmological scales is usually done by constraining modified gravity (MG) parameters added to the Einstein perturbed equations. Most studies have analyzed so far constraints on pairs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-10 Cristhian Garcia-Quintero , Mustapha Ishak

General relativistic cosmology cannot be reduced to linear relativistic perturbations superposed on an isotropic and homogeneous (Friedmann-Robertson-Walker) background, even though such a simple scheme has been successfully applied to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Eleonora Villa , Licia Verde , Sabino Matarrese

We investigate the cosmic evolution of the linear bias in the framework of a flat FLRW spacetime. We consider metric perturbations in the Newtonian gauge, including Hubble scale effects. Making the following assumptions, (i) scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Basilakos , J. B. Dent , S. Dutta , L. Perivolaropoulos , M. Plionis

If general relativity is the correct theory of physics on large scales, then there is a differential equation that relates the Hubble expansion function, inferred from measurements of angular diameter distance and luminosity distance, to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-01 Mustapha Ishak , Amol Upadhye , David N. Spergel

We investigate the cosmological dependence and the constraining power of large-scale galaxy correlations, including all redshift-distortions, wide-angle, lensing and gravitational potential effects on linear scales. We analyze the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Alvise Raccanelli , Francesco Montanari , Daniele Bertacca , Olivier Doré , Ruth Durrer

Over the past decades, General Relativity and the concordance $\Lambda$CDM model have been successfully tested using several different astrophysical and cosmological probes based on large datasets ({\it precision cosmology}). Despite their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-07 Ivan de Martino , Mariafelicia De Laurentis , Salvatore Capozziello

One of the challenges in testing gravity with cosmology is the vast freedom opened when extending General Relativity. For linear perturbations, one solution consists in using the Effective Field Theory of Dark Energy (EFT of DE). Even then,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Jérôme Gleyzes

We take into account redshift-space distortion measurements to investigate the growth of cosmological large-scale structures within the framework of modified symmetric teleparallel $f(Q)$ gravity. After comparing the predictions of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-20 Shambel Sahlu , Álvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz , Amare Abebe

We perform a principal component analysis to assess ability of future observations to measure departures from General Relativity in predictions of the Poisson and anisotropy equations on linear scales. In particular, we focus on how the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-22 Shinsuke Asaba , Chiaki Hikage , Kazuya Koyama , Gong-Bo Zhao , Alireza Hojjati , Levon Pogosian

In this review, we outline the expected tests of gravity that will be achieved at cosmological scales in the upcoming decades. We focus mainly on constraints on phenomenologically parameterized deviations from general relativity, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-21 Matteo Martinelli , Santiago Casas

Based on several recent developments in relativistic astrophysics and observational cosmology, this article discusses prospects of (1) theoretical structure of General Relativity (GR) in the new era and (2) submission of GR to new and…

Popular Physics · Physics 2018-01-08 Sanjeev Kalita