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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

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

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

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

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

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

Model-independent measurements for the cosmic spatial curvature, which is related to the nature of cosmic space-time geometry, plays an important role in cosmology. On the basis of the Distance Sum Rule in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-07 Huan Zhou , Zheng-Xiang Li

General Relativity (GR) has been successfully tested mainly at Solar system scales; however, galaxy-scale tests have become popular in the last few decades. In this work, we investigate the $\eta_\text{PPN}$ parameter, which is commonly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-09 Carlos R. Melo-Carneiro , Cristina Furlanetto , Ana L. Chies-Santos

Although the cosmic curvature has been tightly constrained in the standard cosmological model using observations of cosmic microwave background anisotropies, it is still of great importance to independently measure this key parameter using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-29 Yan-Jin Wang , Jing-Zhao Qi , Bo Wang , Jing-Fei Zhang , Jing-Lei Cui , Xin Zhang

We use galaxy-galaxy weak lensing data to perform a novel test on general relativity (GR) and $f(T)$ torsional gravity. In particular, we impose strong constraints using the torsional (teleparallel) formulation of gravity in which the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Zhaoting Chen , Wentao Luo , Yi-Fu Cai , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We devise a test of nonlinear departures from general relativity (GR) using time delays in strong gravitational lenses. We use a phenomenological model of gravitational screening as a step discontinuity in the measure of curvature per unit…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Dhrubo Jyoti , Julian B. Munoz , Robert R. Caldwell , Marc Kamionkowski

Strong gravitational lensing provides a natural opportunity to test General Relativity (GR). We propose a model-independent method for simultaneous constraining on Hubble constant ($H_0$) and post-Newtonian parameter (${\gamma_{\rm{PPN}}}$)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-30 Tonghua Liu , Kai Liao

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

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…

The cosmic Distance Duality Relation (DDR) is a fundamental prediction of metric gravity under photon number conservation. In this work, we perform a model-independent test of the DDR using Pantheon+ type Ia supernovae (SN Ia), \emph{Fermi}…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Yukang Xie , Yang Liu , Puxun Wu , Xiangyun Fu , Nan Liang

Strong gravitational lensing along with the distance sum rule method can constrain both cosmological parameters as well as density profiles of galaxies without assuming any fiducial cosmological model. To constrain galaxy parameters and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-17 Darshan Kumar , Deepak Jain , Shobhit Mahajan , Amitabha Mukherjee , Nisha Rani

We present a comprehensive test of the cosmic distance duality relation (DDR) using a combination of strong gravitational lensing (SGL) time delay measurements and Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) data. We investigate three different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-16 Jing-Zhao Qi , Yi-Fan Jiang , Wan-Ting Hou , Xin Zhang

The most simple observed cases of gravitational lensing of distant quasars and galaxies by galaxies and clusters of galaxies are used to test Einstein's theory of General Relativity and Newtonian Gravity over galactic and intergalactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Arnon Dar

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

Applying the distance sum rule in strong gravitational lensing (SGL) and type Ia supernova (SN Ia) observations, one can provide an interesting cosmological model-independent method to determine the cosmic curvature parameter $\Omega_k$. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-31 Bo Wang , Jing-Zhao Qi , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang
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