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The next generation of weak lensing surveys will trace the growth of large scale perturbations through a sequence of epochs, offering an opportunity to test General Relativity (GR) on cosmological scales. We review in detail the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-14 Levon Pogosian , Alessandra Silvestri , Kazuya Koyama , Gong-Bo Zhao

We develop a full-covariance formalism for pulsar timing array(PTA) -- astrometry verlap reduction function (ORF) estimators and use it to forecast graviton-mass constraints from a nanohertz stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB).…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-30 Jing-Hong Han , Zhi-Chao Zhao

We present a forecast for the upcoming Einstein Telescope (ET) interferometer with two new methods to infer cosmological parameters. We consider the emission of Gravitational Waves (GWs) from compact binary coalescences, whose…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-15 Giovanni Antinozzi , Matteo Martinelli , Roberto Maoli

We demonstrate a new method to constrain gravity on the largest cosmological scales by combining measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing and the galaxy velocity field. $E_G$ is a statistic, constructed from a gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-09 Anthony R. Pullen , Shadab Alam , Siyu He , Shirley Ho

With the dramatic rise in high-quality galaxy data expected from Euclid and Vera C. Rubin Observatory, there will be increasing demand for fast high-precision methods for measuring galaxy fluxes. These will be essential for inferring the…

Gravitational lensing shear has the potential to be the most powerful tool for constraining the nature of dark energy. However, accurate measurement of galaxy shear is crucial and has been shown to be non-trivial by the Shear TEsting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 L. M. Voigt , S. L. Bridle

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 present a set of predictions for weak lensing correlation functions in the context of modified gravity models, including a prescription for the impact of the nonlinear power spectrum regime in these models. We consider the DGP and f(R)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Emma Beynon , David J. Bacon , Kazuya Koyama

Clustering measurements of Gravitational Wave (GW) mergers in Luminosity Distance Space can be used in the future as a powerful tool for Cosmology. We consider tomographic measurements of the Angular Power Spectrum of mergers both in an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-23 S. Libanore , M. C. Artale , D. Karagiannis , M. Liguori , N. Bartolo , Y. Bouffanais , N. Giacobbo , M. Mapelli , S. Matarrese

Pulsars in close binary orbit around another neutron star or a massive white dwarf make ideal laboratories for testing the predictions of gravitational radiation and self-gravitational effects. We report new timing measurements of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 N. D. Ramesh Bhat , Matthew Bailes , Joris P. W. Verbiest

We construct forecasts for cosmological parameter constraints from weak gravitational lensing surveys involving the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). Considering matter content, dark energy and modified gravity parameters, we show that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-26 Ian Harrison , Stefano Camera , Joe Zuntz , Michael L. Brown

Gravitational wave (GW) constraints have recently been used to significantly restrict models of dark energy and modified gravity. New bounds arising from GW decay and GW-induced dark energy instabilities are particularly powerful in this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-25 Johannes Noller

Einstein's theory of general relativity (GR) has been precisely tested on solar system scales, but extragalactic tests are still poorly performed. In this work, we use a newly compiled sample of galaxy-scale strong gravitational lenses to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-02 Jun-Jie Wei , Yun Chen , Shuo Cao , Xue-Feng Wu

The unknown nature of dark energy motivates continued cosmological tests of large-scale gravitational physics. We present a new consistency check based on the relative amplitude of non-relativistic galaxy peculiar motions, measured via…

The next generation of surveys will greatly improve our knowledge of cosmological gravity. In this paper we focus on how Stage IV photometric redshift surveys, including weak lensing and multiple tracers of the matter distribution and radio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-18 David Alonso , Emilio Bellini , Pedro G. Ferreira , Miguel Zumalacarregui

The observed acceleration of the Universe can be explained by modifying general relativity. One such attempt is the nonlocal model of Deser and Woodard. Here we fix the background cosmology using results from the Planck satellite and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-05 Scott Dodelson , Sohyun Park

One of the challenges in testing gravity with cosmology is the vast freedom opened when extending General Relativity. For linear perturbations, one solution consists in using the Effective Field Theory of Dark Energy (EFT of DE). Even then,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Jérôme Gleyzes

We perform a maximum likelihood kinematic analysis of the two dynamically relaxed galaxy clusters MACS J1206.2-0847 at $z=0.44$ and RXC J2248.7-4431 at $z=0.35$ to determine the total mass profile in modified gravity models, using a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-01 L. Pizzuti , B. Sartoris , L. Amendola , S. Borgani , A. Biviano , K. Umetsu , A. Mercurio , P. Rosati , I. Balestra , G. B. Caminha , M. Girardi , C. Grillo , M. Nonino

Dark matter (DM) within the solar system induces deviations in the geodetic drift of gyroscope spin due to its gravitational interaction. Assuming a constant DM density as a minimal scenario, we constrain DM overdensity within the Gravity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-13 Sara Rufrano Aliberti , Gaetano Lambiase , Tanmay Kumar Poddar