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We use cosmological constraints from current data sets and a figure of merit (FoM) approach to probe any deviations from general relativity (GR) at cosmological scales. The FoM approach is used to study the constraining power of various…

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In this paper, we propose a new method to use the strong lensing data sets to constrain a cosmological model. By taking the ratio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-05 Nannan Wang , Lixin Xu

We consider how upcoming photometric large scale structure surveys can be optimized to measure the properties of dark energy and possible cosmic scale modifications to General Relativity in light of realistic astrophysical and instrumental…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Donnacha Kirk , Istvan Laszlo , Sarah Bridle , Rachel Bean

We impose the first strong-lensing constraints on a wide class of modified gravity models where an extra field that modifies gravity also couples to photons (either directly or indirectly through a coupling with baryons) and thus modifies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 De-Chang Dai , Dejan Stojkovic , Glenn D. Starkman

Cosmological structures grow differently in theories of gravity which are modified as compared to Einstein's General relativity (GR). Cosmic microwave background (CMB) fluctuation patterns at the last scattering surface are lensed by these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 Toshiya Namikawa , François R. Bouchet , Atsushi Taruya

We constrain and compare the $w_{0}w_{a}$CDM dynamical dark energy model and three $f(R)$ modified gravity models using the current cosmological distance measurements, including 112 high-quality localized FRBs, BAO measurements from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 Shuai Feng , Yan Gong , Xiaohui Liu , Jun-Hui Yan , Xuelei Chen

We present a new test of gravitational interactions at the r\sim(0.2-20)Mpc scale, around the virial radius of dark matter halos measured through cluster-galaxy lensing of maxBCG clusters from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We employ…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-30 Lucas Lombriser , Fabian Schmidt , Tobias Baldauf , Rachel Mandelbaum , Uros Seljak , Robert E. Smith

Strong gravitational lensing by galaxies provides us with a unique opportunity to understand the nature of gravity on galactic and extra-galactic scales. In this paper, we propose a new multimessenger approach using data from both…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 Tao Yang , Bin Hu , Rong-Gen Cai , Bin Wang

Disformal theories of gravity are scalar-tensor theories where the scalar couples derivatively to matter via the Jordan frame metric. These models have recently attracted interest in the cosmological context since they admit accelerating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-04 Hiu Yan Ip , Jeremy Sakstein , Fabian Schmidt

We investigate the cosmological and the local tests of the f(R) theory of modified gravity via the observations of (1) the cosmic expansion and (2) the cosmic structures and via (3) the solar-system experiments. To fit the possible cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Wei-Ting Lin , Je-An Gu , Pisin Chen

We constrained minimally extended cosmological models with the cosmic shear analysis of the final data release from the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS-Legacy) in combination with external probes. Due to the consistency of the KiDS-Legacy analysis…

One of the primary limiting sources of systematic uncertainty in forthcoming weak lensing measurements is systematic uncertainty in the quantitative relationship between the distortions due to gravitational lensing and the measurable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-10 Eric Huff , Rachel Mandelbaum

Massive neutrinos and $f(R)$ modified gravity have degenerate observational signatures that can impact the interpretation of results in galaxy survey experiments, such as cosmological parameter estimations and gravity model tests. Because…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-22 Renate Mauland , Øystein Elgarøy , David Fonseca Mota , Hans Arnold Winther

We present current and future constraints on equations of state for dark sector perturbations. The equations of state considered are those corresponding to a generalized scalar field model and time-diffeomorphism invariant $L(g)$ theories…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-29 Richard A. Battye , Adam Moss , Jonathan A. Pearson

The testing of general relativity at cosmological scales has become a possible and timely endeavor that is not only motivated by the pressing question of cosmic acceleration but also by the proposals of some extensions to general relativity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Jason Dossett , Mustapha Ishak , Jacob Moldenhauer

A large fraction of cosmological information on dark energy and gravity is encoded in the nonlinear regime. Precision cosmology thus requires precision modeling of nonlinearities in general dark energy and modified gravity models. We modify…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Weiguang Cui , Pengjie Zhang , Xiaohu Yang

Weak gravitational lensing has become a common tool to constrain the cosmological model. The majority of the methods to derive constraints on cosmological parameters use second-order statistics of the cosmic shear. Despite their success,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Sandrine Pires , Adrienne Leonard , Jean-Luc Starck

We present the cosmic shear signal predicted by two viable cosmological models in the framework of modified-action f(R) theories. We use f(R) models where the current accelerated expansion of the Universe is a direct consequence of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Stefano Camera , Antonaldo Diaferio , Vincenzo F. Cardone

The standard LambdaCDM model based on General Relativity (GR) including cold dark matter (CDM) is very successful at fitting cosmological observations, but recent non-detections of candidate dark matter (DM) particles mean that various…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-09 Charalambos Pittordis , Will Sutherland

Models that seek to explain cosmic acceleration through modifications to General Relativity (GR) evade stringent Solar System constraints through a restoring, screening mechanism. Down-weighting the high density, screened regions in favor…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-30 Georgios Valogiannis , Rachel Bean