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We discuss the phenomenological imprints of modifications to gravity in the early universe with a specific focus on the time of recombination. We derive several interesting results regarding the effect that such modifications have on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 Meng-Xiang Lin , Marco Raveri , Wayne Hu

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 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

Over the past century, General Relativity (GR) has been a cornerstone of gravitational theory. However, recent cosmological observations, such as the accelerated expansion of the Universe, challenge its completeness and the standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-02 Lakhan V. Jaybhaye

Modified Gravity (MOG) has been used successfully to explain the rotation curves of galaxies, the motion of galaxy clusters, the Bullet Cluster, and cosmological observations without the use of dark matter or Einstein's cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-04-04 J. W. Moffat , V. T. Toth

We investigate the solution of Maxwell's equations in curved spacetime within the framework of Modified Gravity (MOG). We show that besides the null-geodesic treatment of photons in MOG, using Maxwell's equations and covariant coupling with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-14 S. Rahvar , J. W. Moffat

Theoretical and observational challenges to standard cosmology such as the cosmological constant problem and tensions between cosmological model parameters inferred from different observations motivate the development and search of new…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-30 Lucas Lombriser

Cosmologies with running cosmological term (Lambda) and gravitational Newton's coupling (G) may naturally be expected if the evolution of the universe can ultimately be derived from the first principles of Quantum Field Theory or String…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Javier Grande , Joan Sola , Julio C. Fabris , Ilya L. Shapiro

Any Dark Energy (DE) or Modified Gravity (MG) model that deviates from a cosmological constant requires a consistent treatment of its perturbations, which can be described in terms of an effective entropy perturbation and an anisotropic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-26 Bjoern Soergel , Tommaso Giannantonio , Jochen Weller , Richard A. Battye

We study cosmology in a class of minimally modified gravity (MMG) with two local gravitational degrees of freedom. We classify modified gravity theories into type-I and type-II: theories of type-I have an Einstein frame and can be recast by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-16 Katsuki Aoki , Antonio De Felice , Chunshan Lin , Shinji Mukohyama , Michele Oliosi

We analyse the MOdified Gravity (MOG) theory, proposed by Moffat, in a cosmological context. We use data from Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia), Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) and Cosmic Chronometers (CC) to test MOG predictions. For this, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Carolina Negrelli , Lucila Kraiselburd , Susana J. Landau , Claudia Scóccola

Under the assumption that General Relativity (GR) correctly describes the phenomenology of our Universe, astronomical observations provide compelling evidence that (1) the dynamics of cosmic structure is dominated by dark matter (DM), an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-19 A. Diaferio

A major hurdle for modified gravity theories is to explain the dynamics of galaxy clusters. A case is made for a generalized gravitational theory called Scalar-Tensor-Vector-Gravity (STVG) or MOG (modified gravity) to explain merging…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-30 N. S Israel , J. W Moffat

In this review we present a thoroughly comprehensive survey of recent work on modified theories of gravity and their cosmological consequences. Amongst other things, we cover General Relativity, Scalar-Tensor, Einstein-Aether, and Bimetric…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Timothy Clifton , Pedro G. Ferreira , Antonio Padilla , Constantinos Skordis

We consider different observational effects to test modified gravity approach involving the cosmological constant in the common description of the dark matter and the dark energy. We obtain upper limits for the cosmological constant by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 A. Amekhyan , S. Sargsyan , A. Stepanian

General Relativity (GR) was proven via the direct detection of gravitational waves from the mergers of the binary black holes and binary neutron stars by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors. These detections confirmed the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-18 S. Shankaranarayanan , Joseph P Johnson

We systematically assess several limiting cases of modified gravity, where particular theoretical or observational conditions hold. This framework includes the well known scalar-tensor gravity and No Slip Gravity and No Run Gravity, and we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-15 Eric V. Linder

Cosmology in extended theories of gravity is considered assuming the Palatini variational principle, for which the metric and connection are independent variables. The field equations are derived to linear order in perturbations about the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Tomi Koivisto , Hannu Kurki-Suonio

The growth rate of the large-scale structure of the universe has been advocated as the observable par excellence for testing gravity on cosmological scales. By considering linear-order deviations from General Relativity, we show that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-12 Tessa Baker , Pedro G. Ferreira , Constantinos Skordis

The Modified dynamics (MOND) has been propounded as an alternative to Dark matter. It imputes the mass discrepancy in galaxy systems to failure of standard dynamics in the limit of small accelerations. After a brief description of the MOND…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mordehai Milgrom