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Quantum metrology exploits quantum mechanical effects to increase the precision of measurements of physical quantities. A wide variety of applications are currently being developed for scientific and technological purposes, however, most…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 B. J. Alexander , Ş. K. Özdemir , M. S. Tame

The weak lensing power spectrum is a powerful tool to probe cosmological parameters. Additionally, lensing peak counts contain cosmological information beyond the power spectrum. Both of these statistics can be affected by the preferential…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-07 Jia Liu , Zoltán Haiman , Lam Hui , Jan M. Kratochvil , Morgan May

We present updated constraints on modified gravity by including the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect from CMB lensing-CMB temperature cross-correlations, based on the latest Planck PR4 maps. Utilizing the Effective Field Theory of dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-16 Anton Chudaykin , Martin Kunz , Julien Carron

The observed accelerated expansion of the Universe may be explained by dark energy or the breakdown of general relativity (GR) on cosmological scales. When the latter case, a modified gravity scenario, is considered, it is often assumed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-04 Jiro Matsumoto , Teppei Okumura , Misao Sasaki

Modified gravity (MG) theories aim to reproduce the observed acceleration of the Universe by reducing the dark sector while simultaneously recovering General Relativity (GR) within dense environments. Void studies appear to be a suitable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-27 E L D Perico , R Voivodic , M Lima , D F Mota

In cosmic web analysis, complementary to traditional cosmological probes, the extrema (e.g. peaks and voids) two-point correlation functions (2PCFs) are of particular interest for the study of both astrophysical phenomena and cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-15 Zhengyangguang Gong , Alexandre Barthelemy , Sandrine Codis

The recent observational data in cosmology seem to indicate that the universe is currently expanding in an accelerated way. An intriguing interpretation of these data is that they may just be signalling that Einstein's General Relativity is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-18 Fulvio Sbisà

Weak lensing peak counts are a powerful statistical tool for constraining cosmological parameters. So far, this method has been applied only to surveys with relatively small areas, up to several hundred square degrees. As future surveys…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-01 Janis Fluri , Tomasz Kacprzak , Raphael Sgier , Alexandre Réfrégier , Adam Amara

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…

Weak gravitational lensing convergence peaks, the local maxima in weak lensing convergence maps, have been shown to contain valuable cosmological information complementary to commonly used two-point statistics. To exploit the full power of…

We apply the technique of parameter-splitting to existing cosmological data sets, to check for a generic failure of dark energy models. Given a dark energy parameter, such as the energy density Omega_Lambda or equation of state w, we split…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Sheng Wang , Lam Hui , Morgan May , Zoltan Haiman

Weak-lensing peak counts has been shown to be a powerful tool for cosmology. It provides non-Gaussian information of large scale structures, complementary to second order statistics. We propose a new flexible method to predict weak lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-25 Chieh-An Lin , Martin Kilbinger

Dedicated 'Stage IV' observatories will soon observe the entire extragalactic sky, to measure the 'cosmic shear' distortion of galaxy shapes by weak gravitational lensing. To measure the apparent shapes of those galaxies, we present an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-08 Xiangchong Li , Yin Li , Richard Massey

We investigate the effect of weak gravitational lensing in the limit of small angular scales where projected galaxy clustering is strongly nonlinear. This is the regime likely to be probed by future weak lensing surveys. We use…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dipak Munshi , Peter Coles

Cosmic voids offer a unique opportunity to explore modified gravity (MG) models. Their low-density nature and vast extent make them especially sensitive to cosmological scenarios of the class $f(R)$, which incorporate screening mechanisms…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Leonardo Maggiore , Sofia Contarini , Carlo Giocoli , Lauro Moscardini

We study how joint shear and magnification measurements improve the statistical precision of weak lensing mass calibration experiments, relative to standard shear-only analysis. For our magnification measurements, we consider not only the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-30 Eduardo Rozo , Fabian Schmidt

We study the complementarity of weak lensing (WL) and spectroscopic galaxy clustering (GC) surveys, by forecasting dark energy and modified gravity constraints for three upcoming survey combinations: SuMIRe (Subaru Measurement of Images and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-30 Roland de Putter , Olivier Doré , Masahiro Takada

A broad class of modified gravities can result in a modified friction effect in the propagation of gravitational waves (GWs). This effect changes the amplitude-damping rate of GWs during their propagation in the cosmological distance and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-17 Chunbo Lin , Tao Zhu , Rui Niu , Wen Zhao

Weak gravitational lensing provides a unique method to directly measure the distribution of mass in the universe. Because the distortions induced by lensing in the shape of background galaxies are small, the measurement of weak lensing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Alexandre Refregier , David Bacon

This paper simplifies the induced four-dimensional gravitational equations originating from a five-dimensional bulk within the framework of Nash's embeddings, incorporating them into a well-known $\mu-\Sigma$ modified gravity (MG)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-12 Abraão J. S. Capistrano , Rafael C. Nunes , Luís A. Cabral