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We study how the filamentary pattern of the cosmic web changes if the true gravity deviates from the general relativity (GR) on the large scale. The f(R) gravity whose strength is controlled to satisfy the current observational constraints…

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[Abridged] We study the angular-momentum profiles of a statistical sample of halos drawn from a high-resolution N-body simulation of the LCDM cosmology. We find that the cumulative mass distribution of specific angular momentum, j, in a…

In this paper we place observational constraints on the well-known $\gamma$-gravity $f(R)$ model using the latest cosmological data, namely we use the latest growth rate, Cosmic Microwave Background, Baryon Acoustic Oscillations, Supernovae…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-17 Clara Álvarez Luna , Spyros Basilakos , Savvas Nesseris

We study the strong gravitational lensing effect around rotating black holes in different gravity theories. By calculating the deflection angle of strong gravitational lensing, we evaluate the lensing observables including the image…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-20 Xiao-Mei Kuang , Zi-Yu Tang , Bin Wang , Anzhong Wang

We propose a new marked two-point correlation function weighted by the global gravitational potential as a probe for testing gravity models. Using the LCDM model based on general relativity (GR) as a reference, we investigate two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 Yizhao Yang , Yu Yu , Pengjie Zhang

In a recent paper, Alimi & Koskas highlighted in $w$CDM models derived from general relativity (GR) (with Dark Energy Universe numerical simulation data), a cosmological invariance of the distribution of dark-matter (DM) halo shapes when…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-08 Remy Koskas , Jean-Michel Alimi

We study the effect of $f(R)$ gravity on the statistical properties of various large-scale structures which can be probed in weak gravitational lensing measurements. A set of ray-tracing simulations of gravitational lensing in $f(R)$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-04 Yuichi Higuchi , Masato Shirasaki

We study the effect of modifications to General Relativity on large scale weak lensing observables. In particular, we consider three modified gravity scenarios: f(R) gravity, the DGP model, and TeVeS theory. Weak lensing is sensitive to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Fabian Schmidt

We study a class of metric-variation f(R) models that accelerates the expansion without a cosmological constant and satisfies both cosmological and solar-system tests in the small-field limit of the parameter space. Solar-system tests alone…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Wayne Hu , Ignacy Sawicki

We develop and test an algorithm to rescale a simulated dark-matter particle distribution or halo catalogue from a standard gravity model to that of a modified gravity model. This method is based on that of Angulo & White but with some…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-18 Alexander Mead , John Peacock , Lucas Lombriser , Baojiu Li

Modified gravity theories such as Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) and Scalar-Tensor-Vector Gravity (STVG) have been proposed as alternatives to dark matter, but decisive tests have been hindered by degeneracies between baryonic structure…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-12 Zheng-long Wang , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Lan Zhang , Yin Wu , Haining Li , Xiang-Xiang Xue , Hongsheng Zhao , Yi-Zhong Fan

Aims. We investigate the gravitational redshift in clusters of galaxies in the symmetron and Hu-Sawicky $f(R)$ models. The characteristic feature of both models is the screening mechanism that hides the fifth force in dense environments…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-05 Max B. Gronke , Claudio Llinares , David F. Mota

Modified gravity models require a screening mechanism to be able to evade the stringent constraints from local gravity experiments and, at the same time, give rise to observable astrophysical and cosmological signatures. Such screened…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 Max Gronke , David F. Mota , Hans A. Winther

We explore the co-evolution of the specific angular momentum of dark matter haloes and the cold baryons that comprise the galaxies within. We study over two thousand central galaxies within the reference cosmological hydrodynamical…

The proposition that dark matter halos possess angular momentum, though widely accepted, is a theoretical prediction which has, till date, not been observationally verified. The gravi-magnetic field produced by a rotating gravitating object…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Partha Nag , Somnath Bharadwaj , Sayan Kar

In the last two decades, Modified Gravity (MG) models have been proposed to explain the accelerated expansion of the Universe. However, one of the main difficulties these theories face is that they must reduce to General Relativity (GR) at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-27 Alejandro Aviles

We implement an adaptation of the COLA approach, a hybrid scheme that combines Lagrangian perturbation theory with an N-body approach, to model non-linear collapse in chameleon and symmetron modified gravity models. Gravitational screening…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-30 Georgios Valogiannis , Rachel Bean

We investigate the effects of a K-mouflage modification of gravity on the dynamics of clusters of galaxies. We extend the description of K-mouflage to situations where the scalar field responsible for the modification of gravity is coupled…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-13 Philippe Brax , Luca Alberto Rizzo , Patrick Valageas

We investigate the luminosity-temperature ($L$-$T$) relation of galaxy clusters as a probe for testing modified gravity (MG) theories, focusing on $f(R)$ gravity and symmetron models. Using an improved semi-analytic framework that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-31 Antonino Del Popolo , Saeed Fakhry , David F. Mota

Observations show that the underlying rotation curves at intermediate radii in spiral and low-surface brightness galaxies are nearly universal. Further, in these same galaxies, the product of the central density and the core radius…

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