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We investigate the efficiency of screening mechanisms in the hybrid metric-Palatini gravity. The value of the field is computed around spherical bodies embedded in a background of constant density. We find a thin shell condition for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-16 Marcelo Vargas dos Santos , Jailson S. Alcaniz , David F. Mota , Salvatore Capozziello

Gravitational theories differing from General Relativity may explain the accelerated expansion of the Universe without a cosmological constant. However, to pass local gravitational tests, a "screening mechanism" is needed to suppress, on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-02 Lotte ter Haar , Miguel Bezares , Marco Crisostomi , Enrico Barausse , Carlos Palenzuela

We reexamine the screening mechanism in $f(R)$ gravity using N-body simulations. By explicitly examining the relation between the extra scalar field $\delta f_R$ and the gravitational potential $\phi$ in the perturbed Universe, we find that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-11 Jian-hua He , Baojiu Li , Adam J. Hawken , Benjamin R. Granett

We investigate the propagation of scalar waves induced by matter sources in the context of scalar-tensor theories of gravity which include screening mechanisms for the scalar degree of freedom. The usual approach when studying these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-24 Jan Ø. Lindroos , Claudio Llinares , David F. Mota

We present measurements of the radial gravitational acceleration around isolated galaxies, comparing the expected gravitational acceleration given the baryonic matter with the observed gravitational acceleration, using weak lensing…

Scalar-tensor theories leaving significant modifications of gravity at cosmological scales rely on screening mechanisms to recover General Relativity (GR) in high-density regions and pass stringent tests with astrophysical objects. Much…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-11 Cyril Renevey , Ryan McManus , Charles Dalang , Lucas Lombriser

The statistics of dark matter halos is an essential component of understanding the nonlinear evolution in modified gravity cosmology. Based on a series of modified gravity N-body simulations, we investigate the halo mass function,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-21 Youcai Zhang , Pengjie Zhang , Xiaohu Yang , Weiguang Cui

The comparison between dynamical mass and lensing mass provides a targeted test for a wide range of modified gravity models. In our previous paper we showed, through numerical simulations, that the measurement of the line-of-sight velocity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-05 Tsz Yan Lam , Fabian Schmidt , Takahiro Nishimichi , Masahiro Takada

We present a new test of the modified gravity endowed with the Vainshtein mechanism with the density profile of a galaxy cluster halo observed through gravitational lensing. A scalar degree of freedom in the galileon modified gravity is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-16 Tatsuya Narikawa , Kazuhiro Yamamoto

Wide binaries provide promising laboratories for testing general relativity (GR) in the low-acceleration regime. Recent observational studies have found that the difference in the proper motions and/or radial velocities of the components of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 Kareem El-Badry

We investigate the effect of modified gravity on the specific angular momentum of galactic halos by analyzing the halo catalogs at z=0 from high-resolution N-body simulations for a f(R) gravity model that meets the solar-system constraint.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Jounghun Lee , Gong-Bo Zhao , Baojiu Li , Kazuya Koyama

If the accelerated expansion of the universe is due to a modification of general relativity at late times, it is likely that the growth of structure on large scales would also display deviations from the standard cosmology. We investigate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-27 Marcell Howard , Arthur Kosowsky , Georgios Valogiannis

We investigate void properties in $f(R)$ models using N-body simulations, focusing on their differences from General Relativity (GR) and their detectability. In the Hu-Sawicki $f(R)$ modified gravity (MG) models, the halo number density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-31 Yan-Chuan Cai , Nelson Padilla , Baojiu Li

We consider a binary system in the context of screened modified gravity models and investigate its emitted gravitational wave which has been shown that is a hairy wave. We derive power of the gravitational wave and the binding energy of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-31 Matin Honardoost , Nima Khosravi , Nafiseh Rahmanpour

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

The velocity field of dark matter and galaxies reflects the continued action of gravity throughout cosmic history. We show that the low-order moments of the pairwise velocity distribution, $v_{12}$, are a powerful diagnostic of the laws of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-11 Wojciech A. Hellwing , Alexandre Barreira , Carlos S. Frenk , Baojiu Li , Shaun Cole

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

We investigate the dependence of the galaxy-halo connection and galaxy density field in modified gravity models using the $N-$body simulations for $f(R)$ and nDGP models at $z=0$. Because of the screening mechanisms employed by these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-26 N. Chandrachani Devi , Aldo Rodríguez-Puebla , O. Valenzuela , Vladimir Avila-Reese , César Hernández-Aguayo , Baojiu Li

We offer predictions of symmetron modified gravity in the neighborhood of realistic dark matter halos. The predictions for the fifth force are obtained by solving the nonlinear symmetron equation of motion in the spherical NFW…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Joseph Clampitt , Bhuvnesh Jain , Justin Khoury

Multiple modifications of general relativity (GR) have been proposed in the literature in order to understand the nature of the accelerated expansion of the Universe. However, thus far all the predictions of GR have been confirmed with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-21 Alex Ho , Max Gronke , Bridget Falck , David F. Mota