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Laser pulses fired at retroreflectors on the Moon provide very accurate ranges. Analysis yields information on Earth, Moon, and orbit. The highly accurate retroreflector positions have uncertainties less than a meter. Tides on the Moon show…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-24 James G. Williams , Slava G. Turyshev , Dale H. Boggs , J. Todd Ratcliff

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

The weak field limit for a pointlike source of a $f(R) \propto R^{3/2}$-gravity model is studied. We aim to show the viability of such a model as a valid alternative to GR + dark matter at Galactic and local scales. Without considering dark…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-09 S. Capozziello , E. Piedipalumbo , C. Rubano , P. Scudellaro

We present a gauge-invariant Schr\"odinger-type evolution that combines (i) weighted local diffusion, (ii) symmetric nonlocal exchange through a kernel operator, and (iii) a mean-free phase-resonant drive. The resulting Resonant Weighted…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 L. Yildiz , D. Kayki , E. Gudekli

A new representation is found for the action of the recently suggested ghost-free nonlocal gravity models generating de Sitter or Anti-de Sitter background with an arbitrary value of the effective cosmological constant. This representation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 A. O. Barvinsky , Yu. V. Gusev

$E_G$ is a summary statistic that combines cosmological observables to achieve a test of gravity that is relatively model-independent. Here, we consider the power of a measurement of $E_G$ using galaxy-galaxy lensing and galaxy clustering…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 C. D. Leonard , S. Alam , R. Mandelbaum , M. M. Rau , S. Singh , C. M. A. Zanoletti , the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

Over the past decades, General Relativity and the concordance $\Lambda$CDM model have been successfully tested using several different astrophysical and cosmological probes based on large datasets ({\it precision cosmology}). Despite their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-07 Ivan de Martino , Mariafelicia De Laurentis , Salvatore Capozziello

Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) measurements are crucial for advanced exploration of the evolutionary history of the lunar orbit, the laws of fundamental gravitational physics, selenophysics and geophysics as well as for future human missions to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-23 Sergei Kopeikin

In this paper, cosmic distance duality relation is probed without considering any background cosmological model. The only \textit{a priori} assumption is that the Universe is described by the Friedmann-Lema$\hat{i}$tre-Robertson-Walker…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-28 Savita Gahlaut

We study nonlinear effects of perturbations around a cosmological background in projected massive gravity, which admits self-accelerating solutions in an open FLRW universe. Using the zero-curvature scaling limit, we derive nonlinear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-25 Yusuke Manita , Sirachak Panpanich , Rampei Kimura

We consider the revised Deser-Woodard model of nonlocal gravity by reformulating the related field equations within a suitable tetrad frame. This transformation significantly simplifies the treatment of the ensuing differential problem…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-24 Rocco D'Agostino , Vittorio De Falco

For cosmologically interesting $f(R)$ gravity models, we derive the complete set of the linearized field equations in the Newtonian gauge, under environments of the solar system, galaxies and clusters respectively. Based on these equations,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Pengjie Zhang

In this paper, we considered the study of Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) model in the framework of $f(Q,T)$ gravity, an extension of symmetric teleparallel gravity, recently defined by Y. Xu et al. \cite{Xu}. The non-linear model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-05 Nisha Godani , Gauranga C Samanta

Recently, Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) have been proposed as standardizable candles, thanks to an observed non-linear relation between their X-ray and optical-ultraviolet (UV) luminosities, which provides an independent measurement of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-30 Matías Leizerovich , Lucila Kraiselburd , Susana J. Landau , Claudia G. Scóccola

Ghost-free non-local gravity is investigated with regards to its late-time dynamics. Viable solutions in this model are confronted with the observational data including the Pantheon+ catalogue of Type Ia supernovae, the Dark Energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-22 S. D. Odintsov , V. K. Oikonomou , G. S. Sharov

We re-analyze the nonlocal gravity model of Deser and Woodard which was proposed to account for the current phase of cosmic acceleration. We show that the growth of perturbations predicted by this nonlocal gravity model when its background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 Sohyun Park , Arman Shafieloo

This paper provides an analytical examination of non-radial geodesics within the context of the spatially flat Friedmann Lema\^itre Robertson Walker (FLRW) spacetime. Using the symmetry properties of the system, two constants of motion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-13 Omar Nemoul , Hichem Guergouri , Jamal Mimouni

We present a machine learning framework for testing general relativity (GR) with gravitational wave signals from binary black hole mergers. Using the source parameters of 173 BBH events from the GWTC catalog as a realistic astrophysical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-13 Lavinia Heisenberg , Shayan Hemmatyar , Hector Villarrubia-Rojo

Using galactic rotation curves, we test a -quantum motivated- gravity model that at large distances modifies the Newtonian potential when spherical symmetry is considered. In this model one adds a Rindler acceleration term to the rotation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-01-09 Jorge L. Cervantes-Cota , Jesus A. Gomez-Lopez

Model-independent constraints on modified gravity models hitherto exist mainly on linear scales. A recently developed formalism presented a consistent parameterisation that is valid on all scales. Using this approach, we perform…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-15 Sankarshana Srinivasan , Daniel B Thomas , Francesco Pace , Richard Battye