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Although general relativity (GR) has been precisely tested at the solar system scale, precise tests at a galactic or cosmological scale are still relatively insufficient. Here, in order to test GR at the galactic scale, we use the newly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-07 Xiao-Hui Liu , Zhen-Hua Li , Jing-Zhao Qi , Xin Zhang

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 measurement of the parametrized post-Newtonian parameter $\gamma_{\rm{PPN}}$ is a robust test of general relativity (GR). In some modified theories of gravity, $\gamma_{\rm{PPN}}$ may evolve with the redshift and deviate from one at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-01 Tonghua Liu , Marek Biesiada , Shuxun Tian , Kai Liao

Based on a mass-selected sample of galaxy-scale strong gravitational lenses from the SLACS, BELLS, LSD and SL2S surveys and using a well-motivated fiducial set of lens-galaxy parameters we tested the weak-field metric on kiloparsec scales…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-08 Shuo Cao , Xiaolei Li , Marek Biesiada , Tengpeng Xu , Yongzhi Cai , Zong-Hong Zhu

Observations of galaxy-scale strong gravitational lensing (SGL) systems have enabled unique tests of nonlinear departures from general relativity (GR) on the galactic and supergalactic scales. One of the most important cases of such tests…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 Yujie Lian , Shuo Cao , Tonghua Liu , Marek Biesiada , Zong-Hong Zhu

This study aims to test the validity of general relativity (GR) on kiloparsec scales by employing a newly compiled galaxy-scale strong gravitational lensing (SGL) sample. We utilize the distance sum rule within the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-10 Jing-Yu Ran , Jun-Jie Wei

The global astrometric observations of a GAIA-like satellite were modeled within the PPN formulation of Post-Newtonian gravitation. An extensive experimental campaign based on realistic end-to-end simulations was conducted to establish the…

The Parameterised Post-Newtonian (PPN) approach is the default framework for performing precision tests of gravity in nearby astrophysical systems. In recent works we have extended this approach for cosmological applications, and in this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-18 Daniel B. Thomas , Theodore Anton , Timothy Clifton , Philip Bull

We review recent developments and results in testing general relativity (GR) at cosmological scales. The subject has witnessed rapid growth during the last two decades with the aim of addressing the question of cosmic acceleration and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-09 Mustapha Ishak

Testing General Relativity (GR) is a key science goal of much of modern physics, and usually results in constraints that are either theory or context specific. We present an holistic framework that we dub `Parametrized Post-Newtonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-19 Daniel B Thomas , Theodore Anton , Timothy Clifton

Einstein's theory of gravity, General Relativity, has been precisely tested on Solar System scales, but the long-range nature of gravity is still poorly constrained. The nearby strong gravitational lens, ESO 325-G004, provides a laboratory…

An important route to testing General Relativity (GR) at cosmological scales is usually done by constraining modified gravity (MG) parameters added to the Einstein perturbed equations. Most studies have analyzed so far constraints on pairs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-10 Cristhian Garcia-Quintero , Mustapha Ishak

Galaxy-scale strong gravitational lenses with measured stellar velocity dispersions allow a test of the weak-field metric on kiloparsec scales and a geometric measurement of the cosmological distance-redshift relation, provided that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Josiah Schwab , Adam S. Bolton , Saul A. Rappaport

Although general relativity underlies modern cosmology, its applicability on cosmological length scales has yet to be stringently tested. Such a test has recently been proposed, using a quantity, EG, that combines measures of large-scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-11 Reinabelle Reyes , Rachel Mandelbaum , Uros Seljak , Tobias Baldauf , James E. Gunn , Lucas Lombriser , Robert E. Smith

The clustering ratio $\eta$, a large-scale structure observable originally designed to constrain the shape of the power spectrum of matter density fluctuations, is shown to provide a sensitive probe of the nature of gravity in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Julien Bel , Philippe Brax , Christian Marinoni , Patrick Valageas

We present a cosmological model-independent framework for testing general relativity (GR) on galactic scales by combining baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) angular scale measurements with 120 galaxy-scale strong gravitational lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 Hengyu Wu , Tonghua Liu , Chenggang Shao

The current effort to test General Relativity employs multiple disparate formalisms for different observables, obscuring the relations between laboratory, astrophysical and cosmological constraints. To remedy this situation, we develop a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-09 Tessa Baker , Dimitrios Psaltis , Constantinos Skordis

We constrain the post-Newtonian gravity parameter gamma on kiloparsec scales by comparing the masses of 15 elliptical lensing galaxies from the Sloan Lens ACS Survey as determined in two independent ways. The first method assumes only that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Adam S. Bolton , Saul Rappaport , Scott Burles

We calculate the parameters $\gamma$ and $\beta$ in the parametrized post-Newtonian (PPN) formalism for scalar-tensor gravity (STG) with an arbitrary potential, under the assumption that the source matter is given by a non-rotating sphere…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-22 Manuel Hohmann , Andreas Schärer

We construct a consistency test of General Relativity (GR) on cosmological scales. This test enables us to distinguish between the two alternatives to explain the late-time accelerated expansion of the universe, that is, dark energy models…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Yong-Seon Song , Kazuya Koyama
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