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The recent discovery of gravitational waves marks the culmination of a sequence of successful tests of the general theory of relativity (GR) since its formulation in 1915. Yet these tests remain confined to the scale of stellar systems or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-10 Jian-hua He , Luigi Guzzo , Baojiu Li , Carlton M. Baugh

Modifications to General Relativity (GR) often incorporate screening mechanisms in order to remain compatible with existing tests of gravity. The screening is less efficient in underdense regions, which suggests that cosmic voids can be a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Christopher T. Davies , Marius Cautun , Baojiu Li

Model-independent constraints on modified gravity models hitherto exist mainly on linear scales. A recently developed formalism presented a consistent parameterisation that is valid on all scales. Using this approach, we perform…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-15 Sankarshana Srinivasan , Daniel B Thomas , Francesco Pace , Richard Battye

The abundance of massive galaxy clusters is a powerful probe of departures from General Relativity (GR) on cosmic scales. Despite current stringent constraints placed by stellar and galactic tests, on larger scales alternative theories of…

Deviations from relativity are tightly constrained by numerous experiments. A class of unmeasured and potentially large violations is presented that can be tested in the laboratory only via weak gravity couplings. Specialized highly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-01-14 Alan Kostelecky , Jay Tasson

We present cosmological constraints for the flat $\Lambda$CDM model, including the sum of neutrino masses, by performing a multi-probe analysis of a total of 13 tomographic auto- and cross-angular power spectra. This is achieved by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-11 Raphael Sgier , Christiane Lorenz , Alexandre Refregier , Janis Fluri , Dominik Zürcher , Federica Tarsitano

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

In this paper, we study lensing of 21cm intensity mapping (IM). Like in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), there is no first order lensing in intensity mapping. The first effects in the power spectrum are therefore of second and third…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-16 Mona Jalilvand , Elisabetta Majerotto , Ruth Durrer , Martin Kunz

We study the implications of a combined analysis of cosmic standard candles and standard rulers on the viability of cosmological models beyond the cosmological concordance model. To this end, we employ well-established data in the form of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-19 Manfred Lindner , Kevin Max , Moritz Platscher , Jonas Rezacek

We compute robust lower limits on the spin temperature, $T_{\rm S}$, of the $z=8.4$ intergalactic medium (IGM), implied by the upper limits on the 21-cm power spectrum recently measured by PAPER-64. Unlike previous studies which used a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-16 Bradley Greig , Andrei Mesinger , Jonathan C. Pober

We investigate a spatially flat FLRW cosmological model in the framework of modified gravity described by the function \( f(R, L_m) = \alpha R + L_m^\beta + \gamma \), where \( L_m \) is the matter Lagrangian density. The modified Friedmann…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-05 G. K. Goswami , Anirudh Pradhan , Syamala Krishnannair

We develop a model-independent test of General Relativity that allows for the constraint of the gravitational wave (GW) polarization content with GW detections of binary compact object inspirals. We first consider three modified gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-16 Katerina Chatziioannou , Nicolas Yunes , Neil Cornish

Weak gravitational lensing provides a means of testing the long-range properties of gravity. Current measurements are consistent with standard Newtonian gravity and inconsistent with substantial modifications on Mpc scales. The data allows…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin White , C. S. Kochanek

Although general relativity underlies modern cosmology, its applicability on cosmological length scales has yet to be stringently tested. Such a test has recently been proposed, using a quantity, EG, that combines measures of large-scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-11 Reinabelle Reyes , Rachel Mandelbaum , Uros Seljak , Tobias Baldauf , James E. Gunn , Lucas Lombriser , Robert E. Smith

We investigate cosmological constraints on K-mouflage models of modified gravity. We consider two scenarios: one where the background evolution is free to deviate from $\Lambda$CDM (K-mouflage) and another one which reproduces a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-29 Giampaolo Benevento , Marco Raveri , Andrei Lazanu , Nicola Bartolo , Michele Liguori , Philippe Brax , Patrick Valageas

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

In recent years, modifications to General Relativity (GR) have been explored to address cosmological observations, particularly in the context of late-time cosmic acceleration. Among these, modifications based on the Teleparallel Equivalent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-29 Saurabh Verma , Archana Dixit , Anirudh Pradhan , M. S. Barak

Major observational efforts in the coming decade are designed to probe the equation of state of dark energy. Measuring a deviation of the equation-of-state parameter w from -1 would indicate a dark energy that cannot be represented solely…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-12 Alan Cooney , Simon DeDeo , Dimitrios Psaltis

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

Weak gravitational lensing is one of the primary cosmological probes, providing powerful constraints on the cosmological model. As Stage IV surveys are expected to deliver data of unprecedented precision, accurate modeling of weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-10 Mattia Pantiri , Matthieu Schaller , Alessandra Silvestri , Jeger C. Broxterman , Joop Schaye