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The combination of multiple cosmological probes can produce measurements of cosmological parameters much more stringent than those possible with any individual probe. We examine the combination of two highly correlated probes of late-time…

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In the statistical framework of model-independent Gaussian processes (GP), we search for the evidence of dynamical dark energy (DDE) using the "Joint Light-curve Analysis" (JLA) Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) sample, the 30 latest cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-02 Deng Wang , Wei Zhang , Xin-He Meng

Over the past decades, several studies have discovered a population of galaxies undergoing very strong star formation events, called extreme emission line galaxies (EELGs). In this work, we exploit the capabilities of the Javalambre…

The acceleration of the universe can be explained either through dark energy or through the modification of gravity on large scales. In this paper we investigate modified gravity models and compare their observable predictions with dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Edmund Bertschinger , Phillip Zukin

We derive new constraints on the $E_G$ statistic as a test of gravity, combining the CMB lensing map estimated from Data Release 6 (DR6) of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope with SDSS BOSS CMASS and LOWZ galaxy data. We develop an analysis…

As an alternative gravitational theory to General Relativity (GR), Conformal Gravity (CG) can be verified through astronomical observations. Currently, Mannheim and Kazanas have provided vacuum solutions for cosmological and local…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-27 Li-Xue Yue , Da-Ming Chen

We test the predictions of Emergent Gravity using matter densities of relaxed, massive clusters of galaxies using observations from optical and X-ray wavebands. We improve upon previous work in this area by including the baryon mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 John A. ZuHone , Jacob R. Sims

$E_G$ 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

The statistics of gravitational lensing can provide us with a very powerful probe of the mass distribution of matter in the universe. By comparing predicted strong lensing probabilities with observations, we can test the mass distribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tong-Jie Zhang

It is always interesting to investigate how well can a future experiment perform with respect to others (present or future ones). Cosmology is really an exciting field where a lot of puzzles are still unknown. In this article we consider a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 Weiqiang Yang , Supriya Pan , David F. Mota , Minghui Du

We present a series of full-shape analyses of galaxy power spectrum multipole measurements from the 6dFGS, BOSS, and eBOSS galaxy surveys. We use an emulated effective field theory of large-scale structure (EFTofLSS) model to conduct these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-13 Jamie Donald-McCann , Rafaela Gsponer , Ruiyang Zhao , Kazuya Koyama , Florian Beutler

We present an analytical description of the probability distribution function (PDF) of the smoothed three-dimensional matter density field for modified gravity and dark energy. Our approach, based on the principles of Large Deviations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-05 Matteo Cataneo , Cora Uhlemann , Christian Arnold , Alex Gough , Baojiu Li , Catherine Heymans

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are attractive objects for constraining the nature of dark energy in a way complementary to other cosmological probes, especially at high redshifts. However, the apparent magnitude of distant GRBs can be distorted by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 F. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai

We forecast the expected cosmological constraints from a combination of probes of both the universal expansion rate and matter perturbation growth, in the form of weak lensing tomography, galaxy tomography, supernovae, and the cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-10 Shahab Joudaki , Manoj Kaplinghat

Weak gravitational lensing is becoming a mature technique for constraining cosmological parameters, and future surveys will be able to constrain the dark energy equation of state $w$. When analyzing galaxy surveys, redshift information has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-07 Andrea Petri , Morgan May , Zoltán Haiman

We use measurements from the Planck satellite mission and galaxy redshift surveys over the last decade to test three of the basic assumptions of the standard model of cosmology, $\Lambda$CDM: the spatial curvature of the universe, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 Shadab Alam , Shirley Ho , Alessandra Silvestri

The attempt to describe the recent accelerated expansion of the Universe includes different propositions for dark energy models and modified gravity theories. Establish their features in order to discriminate and even rule out part of these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-01 M. Penna-Lima , S. D. P. Vitenti , M. E. S. Alves , J. C. N. de Araujo , F. C. Carvalho

A successful measurement of the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB) in Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) would open up a new window through which to test the predictions of General Relativity (GR). We consider how these measurements…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-29 Qiuyue Liang , Meng-Xiang Lin , Mark Trodden

Surveys of weak gravitational lensing of distant galaxies will be one of the key cosmological probes in the future. We study the ability of such surveys to constrain neutrino masses and the equation of state parameter of the dark energy,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-09 Steen Hannestad , Huitzu Tu , Yvonne Y. Y. Wong

We present an analysis of galaxy-galaxy weak gravitational lensing (GGL) in chameleon $f(R)$ gravity - a leading candidate of non-standard gravity models. For the analysis we have created mock galaxy catalogues based on dark matter haloes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Baojiu Li , Masato Shirasaki