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Modifications of general relativity provide an alternative explanation to dark energy for the observed acceleration of the universe. We calculate quasilinear effects in the growth of structure in f(R) models of gravity using perturbation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-29 Alex Borisov , Bhuvnesh Jain

We study the propagation of cosmological gravitational wave (GW) backgrounds from the early radiation era until the present day in modified theories of gravity. Comparing to general relativity (GR), we study the effects that modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-21 Yutong He , Alberto Roper Pol , Axel Brandenburg

Gravitational waves (GWs) are direct probes of cosmological gravity, sensitive to space-time inhomogeneities along their propagation. The presence of massive objects breaks homogeneity and isotropy, allowing for new interactions between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-12 Nicola Menadeo , Serena Giardino , Miguel Zumalacárregui

The integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) contribution induced on the cosmic microwave background by the presence of a supervoid as the one detected by Szapudi et al. (2015) is reviewed in this letter in order to check whether it could explain the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 A. Marcos-Caballero , R. Fernández-Cobos , E. Martínez-González , P. Vielva

Scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) are attracting growing attention for probing extremely short-scale scalar perturbations via gravitational wave measurements. In this paper, we investigate the SIGWs from statistically anisotropic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-08 Chao Chen , Atsuhisa Ota

We study the growth of structures in modified gravity models where the Poisson equation and the relationship between the two Newtonian potentials are modified by explicit functions of space and time. This parameterisation applies to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-24 Philippe Brax , Patrick Valageas

We study the cosmology of Galileon modified gravity models in the linear perturbation regime. We derive the fully covariant and gauge invariant perturbed field equations using two different methods, which give consistent results, and solve…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-22 Alexandre Barreira , Baojiu Li , Carlton Baugh , Silvia Pascoli

In order to investigate possibilities to measure non-Gaussian signatures of the non-linear iSW effect, we study in this work the family of mixed bispectra <tau^q gamma^(3-q)> and trispectra <tau^q gamma^(4-q)> between the integrated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Gero Jürgens , Björn Malte Schäfer

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

Recent measurements of hot and cold spots on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) sky suggest a presence of super-structures on (>100 h^{-1}Mpc) scales. We develop a new formalism to estimate the expected amplitude of temperature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-20 Kaiki Taro Inoue , Nobuyuki Sakai , Kenji Tomita

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) provides an unprecedented opportunity to test deviations from general relativity (GR) that introduce a new physical scale within its redshift range. Using the connection between a Yukawa-like…

We study the growth of subhorizon perturbations in brane-induced gravity using perturbation theory. We solve for the linear evolution of perturbations taking advantage of the symmetry under gauge transformations along the extra-dimension to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Roman Scoccimarro

Modification of general relativity (GR) inspired by theories like $f(R)$ gravity is among the most popular ones to explain the late-time acceleration of the Universe as an alternative to the $\Lambda$CDM model. In this work, we use the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-14 Suresh Kumar , Rafael C. Nunes , Supriya Pan , Priya Yadav

Cosmological fluids are commonly assumed to be distributed in a spatially homogeneous way, while their internal properties are described by a perfect fluid. As such, they influence the Hubble-expansion through their respective densities and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-23 Elisabetta Majerotto , Domenico Sapone , Bjoern Malte Schaefer

We analytically study the gauge dependence of scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) sourced by primordial isocurvature perturbations during radiation domination (RD), working across nine gauges. Through analytical integrations of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-17 Arshad Ali , Yang Lei , Mudassar Sabir

We investigate the synergy between large-scale structure (LSS) observations and gravitational wave (GW) events for testing modified gravity. In particular, we forecast the LSS $\times$ GW cross-correlation signal using Stage-IV LSS surveys,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-21 Chiara De Leo , Guadalupe Cañas-Herrera , Anna Balaudo , Matteo Martinelli , Alessandra Silvestri , Tessa Baker

Studies of vertical and interhemispheric coupling during Sudden Stratospheric Warmings (SSWs) suggest that gravity wave (GW) momentum flux divergence plays a key role in forcing the middle atmosphere, although observational validation of GW…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-07-05 R. J. deWit , R. E. Hibbins , P. J. Espy , Y. J. Orsolini , V. Limpasuvan , D. E. Kinnison

Dissipation is an intrinsic property of the cosmic fluid, leading to the damping of curvature perturbations at small scales. In this paper, we comprehensively study dissipative effects in gravitational waves induced by curvature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-09 Yan-Heng Yu , Zhe Chang , Sai Wang

Many modified gravity theories are under consideration in cosmology as the source of the accelerated expansion of the universe and linear perturbation theory, valid on the largest scales, has been examined in many of these models. However,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-06 Daniel B Thomas , Marco Bruni , Kazuya Koyama , Baojiu Li , Gong-Bo Zhao

Modified gravity models with scale-dependent linear growth typically exhibit an enhancement in the power spectrum beyond a certain scale. The conventional methods for extracting cosmological information usually involve inferring modified…