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This review explores modified theories of gravity, particularly $f(R)$ gravity, as extensions to General Relativity (GR) that offer alternatives to dark energy for explaining cosmic acceleration. These models generalize the Einstein-Hilbert…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-05 Rafid H. Dejrah

Gravitational wave (GW) standard sirens are well-established probes with which one can measure cosmological parameters, and are complementary to other probes like the cosmic microwave background or supernovae standard candles. Here we focus…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-15 Konstantin Leyde , Simone Mastrogiovanni , Danièle A. Steer , Eric Chassande-Mottin , Christos Karathanasis

Mergers of binary compact objects, accompanied with electromagnetic (EM) counterparts, offer excellent opportunities to explore varied cosmological models, since gravitational waves (GWs) and EM counterparts always carry the information of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-31 Ran Chen , Yi-Ying Wang , Lei Zu , Yi-Zhong Fan

In this work we propose a phenomenological modification to the continuity equation at the linear perturbation level and test it using combinations of the CMB temperature, polarization and lensing potential angular spectrum, the ISW-galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-12 Ziad Sakr , Miguel Quartin

Screening mechanisms are essential components in many modified gravity theories, which satisfy local tests of General Relativity (GR) and address cosmic acceleration on cosmological scales. The strong gravitational lensing of gravitational…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-11 Chengsheng Mu , Shuo Cao , Shuxun Tian , Xinyue Jiang , Chenfa Zheng , Dadian Cheng

We derive the effects of a non-zero cosmological constant $\Lambda$ on gravitational wave propagation in the linearized approximation of general relativity. In this approximation we consider the situation where the metric can be written as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-09-17 José Bernabeu , Domènec Espriu , Daniel Puigdomènech

We investigate the constraint ability of the gravitational wave (GW) as the standard siren on the cosmological parameters by using the third-generation gravitational wave detector: the Einstein Telescope. We simulate the luminosity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-21 Rong-Gen Cai , Tao Yang

We develop a unified framework for testing gravity beyond General Relativity (GR) with continuous gravitational waves (CWs) from individual supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs). These long-lived, nearly monochromatic nanohertz signals…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-08 Qinyuan Zheng , Bjorn Larsen , Ellis Eisenberg , Chiara M. F. Mingarelli

A generic prediction of general relativity is that the cosmological linear density growth factor $D$ is scale independent. But in general, modified gravities do not preserve this signature. A scale dependent $D$ can cause time variation in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Pengjie Zhang

Gravitational Wave (GW) observations of coalescing compact binaries will be unique probes of strong-field, dynamical aspects of relativistic gravity. We present a short review of various schemes proposed in the literature to test General…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 K G Arun , Archana Pai

Deviations from general relativity, such as could be responsible for the cosmic acceleration, would influence the growth of large scale structure and the deflection of light by that structure. We clarify the relations between several…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Scott F. Daniel , Eric V. Linder , Tristan L. Smith , Robert R. Caldwell , Asantha Cooray , Alexie Leauthaud , Lucas Lombriser

In this work, we investigate the General Relativistic Entropic Acceleration (GREA) framework, in which late-time acceleration emerges from entropy production associated with the cosmological horizon, and compare its performance with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Irene Graziotti , Chiara De Leo , Matteo Martinelli

We constrain deviations from general relativity (GR) including both redshift and scale dependencies in the modified gravity (MG) parameters. In particular, we employ the under-used binning approach and compare the results to functional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-18 Cristhian Garcia-Quintero , Mustapha Ishak , Orion Ning

Any Dark Energy (DE) or Modified Gravity (MG) model that deviates from a cosmological constant requires a consistent treatment of its perturbations, which can be described in terms of an effective entropy perturbation and an anisotropic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-26 Bjoern Soergel , Tommaso Giannantonio , Jochen Weller , Richard A. Battye

We show that modified gravity presents distinctive nonlinear features on the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies comparing with General Relativity (GR). We calculate the contribution to the CMB non-Gaussianity from nonlinear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-09 Xian Gao

General Relativity (GR) has been successfully tested mainly at Solar system scales; however, galaxy-scale tests have become popular in the last few decades. In this work, we investigate the $\eta_\text{PPN}$ parameter, which is commonly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-09 Carlos R. Melo-Carneiro , Cristina Furlanetto , Ana L. Chies-Santos

Nowadays, thanks to the improved precision of cosmological data, it has been possible to search for deviation from the general relativity theory with tests on large cosmic scales. Particularly, there is a class of modified gravity theories…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-18 R. F. L. Holanda , S. H. Pereira , S. Santos-da-Costa

General Relativity (GR) remains the most accurate theory of gravity to date. It has passed many experimental tests in the Solar System as well as binary pulsar, cosmological and gravitational-wave (GW) observations. Some of these tests…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-13 Marta Colleoni , N. V. Krishnendu , Pierre Mourier , Sayantani Bera , Xisco Jiménez-Forteza

We investigate the synergy of upcoming galaxy surveys and gravitational wave (GW) experiments in constraining late-time cosmology, examining the cross-correlations between the weak lensing of gravitational waves (GW-WL) and the galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Anna Balaudo , Alice Garoffolo , Matteo Martinelli , Suvodip Mukherjee , Alessandra Silvestri

Spatial variations in survey properties due to selection effects generate substantial systematic errors in large-scale structure measurements in optical galaxy surveys on very large scales. On such scales, the statistical sensitivity of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-11 E. L. Gagnon , D. Anbajagane , J. Prat , C. Chang , J. Frieman