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Despite its elegance, the theory of General Relativity is subject to experimental, observational, and theoretical scrutiny to arrive at tighter constraints or an alternative, more preferred theory. In alternative gravity theories, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-12 Bhaskar Biswas , Evangelos Smyrniotis , Ioannis Liodis , Nikolaos Stergioulas

Early JWST observations reveal an unexpectedly abundant population of high-redshift candidate massive galaxies at $z \gtrsim 7$, and recent DESI measurements show a preference for dynamical dark energy, which together present a significant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-18 Sheng-Han Zhou , Tian-Nuo Li , Guo-Hong Du , Jun-Qian Jiang , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

We consider different observational effects to test modified gravity approach involving the cosmological constant in the common description of the dark matter and the dark energy. We obtain upper limits for the cosmological constant by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 A. Amekhyan , S. Sargsyan , A. Stepanian

The $\Lambda$ Cold Dark Matter model ($\Lambda$CDM) represents the current standard model in cosmology. Within this, there is a tension between the value of the Hubble constant, $H_0$, inferred from local distance indicators and the angular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-26 Edvard Mörtsell , Suhail Dhawan

The tensions between the values of Hubble constant obtained from the early and the late Universe data pose a significant challenge to modern cosmology. Possible modifications of the flat homogeneous isotropic cosmological {\Lambda}CDM model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-14 S. L. Parnovsky

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has observed massive galaxies at high redshifts, which implies an earlier epoch of reionization (EoR) compared with the cosmic microwave background (CMB) results. In this paper, based on \texttt{Planck…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-22 Hao-Hao Li , Xin-zhe Zhang , Taotao Qiu , Jun-Qing Xia

Recent cosmological tensions pose difficulties for $\Lambda$CDM. Forthcoming facilities will be able to check whether these tensions result from systematic effects or indeed with the $\Lambda$CDM model itself. However, these new data will…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-12 Dinko Milaković , John K. Webb

The measurement of the size of gravitationally bounded structures is an important test of gravity theories. For a given radius different theories can in fact predict a different gravitational stability mass (GSM) necessary to ensure the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-18 Camilo Santa , Antonio Enea Romano

The subject of this paper is to investigate the weak regime covariant scalar-tensor-vector gravity (STVG) theory, known as the MOdified gravity (MOG) theory of gravity. First, we show that the MOG in the absence of scalar fields is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-09 M. Khurshudyan , N. S. Mazhari , D. Momeni , R. Myrzakulov , M. Raza

Recent anomalies found in cosmological datasets such as the low multipoles of the Cosmic Microwave Background or the low redshift amplitude and growth of clustering measured by e.g., abundance of galaxy clusters and redshift space…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-24 Emilio Bellini , Antonio J. Cuesta , Raul Jimenez , Licia Verde

In this review we present a thoroughly comprehensive survey of recent work on modified theories of gravity and their cosmological consequences. Amongst other things, we cover General Relativity, Scalar-Tensor, Einstein-Aether, and Bimetric…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Timothy Clifton , Pedro G. Ferreira , Antonio Padilla , Constantinos Skordis

We provide an end-to-end exploration of a distinct modified gravitational theory in Jordan-Brans-Dicke (JBD) gravity, from an analytical and numerical description of the background expansion and linear perturbations, to the nonlinear regime…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-17 Shahab Joudaki , Pedro G. Ferreira , Nelson A. Lima , Hans A. Winther

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovered several luminous high-redshift galaxy candidates with stellar masses of $M_{*} \gtrsim 10^{9} \, \rm{M_{\odot}}$ at photometric redshifts $z_{\mathrm{phot}} \gtrsim 10$ which allows to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-30 Moritz Haslbauer , Pavel Kroupa , Akram Hasani Zonoozi , Hosein Haghi

Major observational efforts in the coming decade are designed to probe the equation of state of dark energy. Measuring a deviation of the equation-of-state parameter w from -1 would indicate a dark energy that cannot be represented solely…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-12 Alan Cooney , Simon DeDeo , Dimitrios Psaltis

In modified gravity theories that seek to explain cosmic acceleration, dwarf galaxies in low density environments can be subject to enhanced forces. The class of scalar-tensor theories, which includes f(R) gravity, predict such a force…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Bhuvnesh Jain , Jake Vanderplas

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is reporting massive high redshift galaxies that appear challenging from the $\Lambda$CDM perspective. Interpreted as a cosmological problem, this necessitates the Planck collaboration underestimating…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-02 Eoin Ó Colgáin , M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari , Lu Yin

The $E_G$ statistic is a powerful probe for detecting deviations from GR by combining weak lensing (WL), real-space clustering and redshift space distortion (RSD) measurements thus probing both the lensing and the growth effective Newton…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-26 F. Skara , L. Perivolaropoulos

In this work we extend the perturbation theory for modified gravity (MG) in two main aspects. First, the construction of matter overdensities from Lagrangian displacement fields is shown to hold in a general framework, allowing us to find…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-22 Alejandro Aviles , Mario Alberto Rodriguez-Meza , Josue De-Santiago , Jorge L. Cervantes-Cota

We consider a modified gravity model with a running gravitational constant coupled to a varying dark energy fluid and test its imprint on the growth of structure in the universe. Using Redshift Space Distortion (RSD) measurement results, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-20 Tilek Zhumabek , Azamat Mukhamediya , Hrishikesh Chakrabarty , Daniele Malafarina

A probability of distinguishing between $\Lambda$CDM model and modified gravity is studied by using the future observations for the growth rate of cosmic structure (Euclid redshift survey). Adopting extended DGP model, Kinetic Gravity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-31 Koichi Hirano