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Cosmic acceleration may be due to modifications of cosmic gravity and to test this we need robust connections between theory and observations. However, in a model independent approach like effective field theory or a broad class like…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-31 Eric V. Linder

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

We forecast constraints on minimal model-independent parametrisations of several Modified Gravity theories using mock Stage-IV cosmic shear data. We include nonlinear effects and screening, which ensures recovery of General Relativity on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-18 Maria Tsedrik , Benjamin Bose , Pedro Carrilho , Alkistis Pourtsidou , Sefa Pamuk , Santiago Casas , Julien Lesgourgues

This is a brief review of modified gravity cosmologies. Generically extensions of gravity action involve higher derivative terms, which can result in ghosts and instabilities. There are three ways to circumvent this: Chern-Simons terms,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-24 Tomi S. Koivisto

We study the impact of cosmological scale modifications to General Relativity on the dynamics of halos within voids by comparing N-body simulations incorporating Hu-Sawicki $f(R)$ gravity, with $|f_{R0}|=10^{-6}$ and $10^{-5}$, to those of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Christopher Wilson , Rachel Bean

Modified gravity models with scale-dependent linear growth typically exhibit an enhancement in the power spectrum beyond a certain scale. The conventional methods for extracting cosmological information usually involve inferring modified…

To understand the universe and to interpret the cosmological parameters governing its evolution it is necessary to contrast the data from galaxy surveys with simulation. Typically it entails using computationally expensive N -body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-02 Tolga Yapici , Zachery Brown , Regina Demina , Segev BenZvi

Effects from nonstandard corrections to Newtonian gravity, at large scale, can be investigated using the cosmological structure formation. In particular, it is possible to show if and how a logarithmic correction (as that induced from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-29 Salvatore Capozziello , Mir Faizal , Mir Hameeda , Behnam Pourhassan , Vincenzo Salzano

Models of $f(R)$ gravity that introduce corrections to the Newtonian potential in the weak field limit are tested at the scale of galaxy clusters. These models can explain the dynamics of spiral and elliptical galaxies without resorting to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-12 I. De Martino , M. De Laurentis , F. Atrio-Barandela , S. Capozziello

We train convolutional neural networks to correct the output of fast and approximate N-body simulations at the field level. Our model, Neural Enhanced COLA --NECOLA--, takes as input a snapshot generated by the computationally efficient…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 Neerav Kaushal , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Elena Giusarma , Yin Li , Conner Hawry , Mauricio Reyes

We study the model space generated by the time-dependent operator coefficients in the effective field theory of the cosmological background evolution and perturbations of modified gravity and dark energy models. We identify three classes of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-03 Lucas Lombriser , Andy Taylor

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

In the pursuit of a general formulation for a modified gravitational theory at the non-relativistic level and as an alternative to the dark matter hypothesis, we construct a model valid over a wide variety of astrophysical scales. Through…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-12-13 S. Mendoza , X. Hernandez , J. C. Hidalgo , T. Bernal

Viable modifications of gravity on cosmological scales predominantly rely on screening mechanisms to recover Einstein's Theory of General Relativity in the Solar System, where it has been well tested. A parametrisation of the effects of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-23 Lucas Lombriser

We use properties of void populations identified in N-body simulations to forecast the ability of upcoming galaxy surveys to differentiate models of f(R) gravity from \Lambda CDM cosmology. We analyze simulations designed to mimic the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-22 Paul Zivick , P. M. Sutter

We introduce and demonstrate the power of a method to speed up current iterative techniques for N-body modified gravity simulations. Our method is based on the observation that the accuracy of the final result is not compromised if the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-12 Alexandre Barreira , Sownak Bose , Baojiu Li

We study Modified Gravity (MG) theories by modelling the redshifted matter power spectrum in a spherical Fourier-Bessel (sFB) basis. We use a fully non-linear description of the real-space matter power-spectrum and include the lowest-order…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Dipak Munshi , Geraint Pratten , Patrick Valageas , Peter Coles , Philippe Brax

We present $\Lambda$CDM $N$-body cosmological simulations in the framework of a static general scalar-tensor theory of gravity. Due to the influence of the non-minimally coupled scalar field, the gravitational potential is modified by a…

In this fourth article on weighing the Galactic disk using the shape of the phase-space spiral, we have tested our method on a billion particle three-dimensional N-body simulation, comprised of a Milky Way like host galaxy and a merging…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-06 Axel Widmark , Jason A. S. Hunt , Chervin F. P. Laporte , Giacomo Monari

We perform N-body simulations of theories with infinite-volume extra dimensions, such as the Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati (DGP) model and its higher-dimensional generalizations, where 4D gravity is mediated by massive gravitons. The longitudinal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Justin Khoury , Mark Wyman