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We study how the filamentary pattern of the cosmic web changes if the true gravity deviates from the general relativity (GR) on the large scale. The f(R) gravity whose strength is controlled to satisfy the current observational constraints…

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Redshift-space distortions (RSD) offers an exciting opportunity to test the gravity on cosmological scales. In the presence of galaxy bias, however, the RSD measurement at large scales, where the linear theory prediction is safely applied,…

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We apply Newtonian Fractional-Dimension Gravity (NFDG), an alternative gravitational model, to some notable cases of galaxies with little or no dark matter. In the case of the ultra-diffuse galaxy AGC 114905, we show that NFDG methods can…

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The bulk motion of galaxies induced by the growth of cosmic structure offers a rare opportunity to test the validity of general relativity across cosmological scales. However, modified gravity can be degenerate in its effect with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-02 Fergus Simpson , John A. Peacock

We investigate the use of the cross-correlation between galaxies and galaxy groups to measure redshift-space distortions (RSD) and thus probe the growth rate of cosmological structure. This is compared to the classical approach based on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-24 Faizan G. Mohammad , Sylvain de la Torre , Davide Bianchi , Luigi Guzzo , John A. Peacock

We provide a systematic and updated discussion of a research line carried out by our group over the last few years, in which gravity is modified at cosmological distances by the introduction of nonlocal terms, assumed to emerge at an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Enis Belgacem , Yves Dirian , Andreas Finke , Stefano Foffa , Michele Maggiore

We study cosmological constraints on the various accelerating models of the universe using the time evolution of the cosmological redshift of distant sources. The important characteristic of this test is that it directly probes the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-13 Deepak Jain , Sanjay Jhingan

We use N-body simulation to study the structure formation in the Cubic Galileon Gravity model where along with the usual kinetic and potential term we also have a higher derivative self-interaction term. We find that the large scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 Jiajun Zhang , Bikash R. Dinda , Md. Wali Hossain , Anjan A. Sen , Wentao Luo

We present a convolutional neural network to classify distinct cosmological scenarios based on the statistically similar weak-lensing maps they generate. Modified gravity (MG) models that include massive neutrinos can mimic the standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Austin Peel , Florian Lalande , Jean-Luc Starck , Valeria Pettorino , Julian Merten , Carlo Giocoli , Massimo Meneghetti , Marco Baldi

Self-consistent ${\it N}$-body simulations of modified gravity models are a key ingredient to obtain rigorous constraints on deviations from General Relativity using large-scale structure observations. This paper provides the first detailed…

A large fraction of cosmological information on dark energy and gravity is encoded in the nonlinear regime. Precision cosmology thus requires precision modeling of nonlinearities in general dark energy and modified gravity models. We modify…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Weiguang Cui , Pengjie Zhang , Xiaohu Yang

We implement an adaptation of the COLA approach, a hybrid scheme that combines Lagrangian perturbation theory with an N-body approach, to model non-linear collapse in chameleon and symmetron modified gravity models. Gravitational screening…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-30 Georgios Valogiannis , Rachel Bean

Halo bias links the statistical properties of the spatial distribution of dark matter halos to those of the underlying dark matter field, providing insights into clustering properties in both general relativity (GR) and modified-gravity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Jorge Enrique García-Farieta , Antonio D. Montero-Dorta , Andrés Balaguera-Antolínez

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.…

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We apply the marked correlation function test proposed by Armijo et al. (Paper I) to samples of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the final data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) III. The test assigns a density-dependent mark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-12 Joaquin Armijo , Carlton M. Baugh , Peder Norberg , Nelson D. Padilla

Measurement of peculiar velocities by combining redshifts and distance indicators is a powerful way to measure the growth rate of cosmic structure and test theories of gravity at low redshift. Here we constrain the growth rate of structure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Khaled Said , Matthew Colless , Christina Magoulas , John R. Lucey , Michael J. Hudson

Using cosmic voids to probe the growth rate of cosmic structure, and hence the nature of dark energy, is particularly interesting in the context of modified gravity theories that rely on the screening mechanism. In this work we improve the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-11 Ixandra Achitouv

The standard LambdaCDM model based on General Relativity (GR) including cold dark matter (CDM) is very successful at fitting cosmological observations, but recent non-detections of candidate dark matter (DM) particles mean that various…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-09 Charalambos Pittordis , Will Sutherland

We perform N-body simulations for $f(T)$ gravity using the ME-Gadget code, in order to investigate for the first time the structure formation process in detail. Focusing on the power-law model, and considering the model-parameter to be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Yiqi Huang , Jiajun Zhang , Xin Ren , Emmanuel N. Saridakis , Yi-Fu Cai

Redshift distortion measurements from galaxy surveys include sensitivity to the gravitational growth index distinguishing other theories from Einstein gravity. This gravitational sensitivity is substantially free from uncertainty in the…

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