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In this paper, we quantify the ability of multiple measurements of high-redshift quasars (QSOs) to constrain several theories of modified gravity, including the Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati braneworld scenario, generalized Chaplygin gas, $f(T)$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-25 Yujie Lian , Shuo Cao , Marek Biesiada , Yun Chen , Yilong Zhang , Wuzheng Guo

General relativity (GR) has been well tested up to solar system scales, but it is much less certain that standard gravity remains an accurate description on the largest, that is, cosmological, scales. Many extensions to GR have been studied…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 Austin Peel , Valeria Pettorino , Carlo Giocoli , Jean-Luc Starck , Marco Baldi

Current constraints on gravity are relatively weak on galactic and intergalactic scales. Screened modified gravity models can exhibit complex behaviour there without violating stringent tests of gravity within our Solar System. They might…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 Aneesh P. Naik , Ewald Puchwein , Anne-Christine Davis , Christian Arnold

One way to account for the acceleration of the universe is to modify general relativity, rather than introducing dark energy. Typically, such modifications introduce new degrees of freedom. It is interesting to consider models with no new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Sean M. Carroll , Ignacy Sawicki , Alessandra Silvestri , Mark Trodden

We explore the cosmological constraints from cosmic shear using a new way of modelling the non-linear matter correlation functions. The new formalism extends the method of Angulo & White (2010), which manipulates outputs of $N$-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Raul E. Angulo , Stefan Hilbert

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

Alterations of the gravity Lagrangian introduced in modified torsion gravity theories---also referred to as $f(T)$ gravity---allows for an accelerated expansion in a matter dominated Universe. In this framework, the cosmic speed up is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-23 Stefano Camera , Vincenzo F. Cardone , Ninfa Radicella

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

Since the discovery of the accelerated expansion of the Universe in 1998, modified gravity (MG) theories have attracted considerable attention as alternatives to dark energy (DE). While distinguishing the effects of MG from those of DE…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-16 Alejandro Aviles

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

Within the $f(Q)$-gravity framework we perform a phenomenological study of the cosmological observables in light of the degeneracy between neutrinos physics and the modified gravity parameter and we identify specific patterns which allow to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 Luís Atayde , Noemi Frusciante

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 study cosmological constraints on metric f(R) gravity models that are designed to reproduce the LCDM expansion history with modifications to gravity described by a supplementary cosmological freedom, the Compton wavelength parameter B_0.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Lucas Lombriser , Anze Slosar , Uros Seljak , Wayne Hu

Joint lensing and dynamical mass profile determinations of galaxy clusters are an excellent tool to constrain modification of gravity at cosmological scales. However, search for tiny departures from General Relativity calls for an accurate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 L. Pizzuti , B. Sartoris , S. Borgani , A. Biviano

Modified Gravity theories generally affect the Poisson equation and the gravitational slip (effective anisotropic stress) in an observable way, that can be parameterized by two generic functions ($\eta$ and $\mu$) of time and space. We bin…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-06 Santiago Casas , Martin Kunz , Matteo Martinelli , Valeria Pettorino

Theories of modified gravity where light scalars with non-trivial self-interactions and non-minimal couplings to matter-chameleon and symmetron theories-dynamically suppress deviations from general relativity in the solar system. On other…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-20 Clare Burrage , Jeremy Sakstein

We review recent progress in the construction of modified gravity models as alternatives to dark energy as well as the development of cosmological tests of gravity. Einstein's theory of General Relativity (GR) has been tested accurately…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-24 Kazuya Koyama

Stage-IV surveys will enable unprecedented tests of gravity on cosmological scales. However, assuming General Relativity in the analysis of large-scale structure could introduce systematic biases if gravity deviates from GR at these scales.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-27 Marc Alemany-Gotor , Cristian Viglione , Pablo Fosalba , Isaac Tutusaus

We revisit the cosmology of Covariant Galileon gravity in view of the most recent cosmological data sets, including weak lensing. As a higher derivative theory, Covariant Galileon models do not have a $\Lambda$CDM limit and predict a very…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-23 Simone Peirone , Noemi Frusciante , Bin Hu , Marco Raveri , Alessandra Silvestri

Cosmological scalar perturbation theory studied in the Newtonian gauge depends on two potentials $\Phi$ and $\Psi$. In General Relativity (GR) they must coincide ($\Phi=\Psi$) in the absence of anisotropic stresses sourced by the energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-02 C. M. S. Barbosa , H. Velten , J. C. Fabris , Rudnei O. Ramos