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Parameterised Post-Newtonian Cosmology (PPNC) is a theory-agnostic framework for testing gravity in cosmology, which connects gravitational physics on small and large scales in the Universe. It is a direct extension of the Parameterised…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-25 Daniel B. Thomas , Timothy Clifton , Theodore Anton

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

Einstein's theory of gravity has been extensively tested on solar system scales, and for isolated astrophysical systems, using the perturbative framework known as the parameterized post-Newtonian (PPN) formalism. This framework is designed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-24 Viraj A. A. Sanghai , Timothy Clifton

We derive a theory-independent version of the momentum constraint equation for use in cosmology, as a part of the Parameterised Post-Newtonian Cosmology (PPNC) framework. Our equations are constructed by adapting the corresponding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-06 Theodore Anton , Timothy Clifton

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

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

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

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 post-Newtonian (PN) perturbative framework has been successful in understanding the slow-motion, weak field limit of Einstein's theory of gravity on solar system scales, and for isolated astrophysical systems. The parameterized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-11 Viraj A. A. Sanghai

In the framework of the parametrized post-Newtonian (PPN) formalism, we substantiate an idea according to which we can measure the value of the cosmological gravitational potential $\Phi$ at the location of the Solar System, which is formed…

General Physics · Physics 2020-11-12 V. I. Yudin , A. V. Taichenachev

We use astrophysical data to shed light on fundamental physics by constraining parametrized theoretical cosmological and gravitational models. Gravitational parameters are those constants that parametrize possible departures from Einstein's…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-08-18 Yi Mao

There are a number of approaches to testing General Relativity (GR) on linear scales using parameterized frameworks for modifying cosmological perturbation theory. It is sometimes assumed that the details of any given parameterization are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Joe Zuntz , Tessa Baker , Pedro Ferreira , Constantinos Skordis

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

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

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

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

There is a distinct possibility that current and future cosmological data can be used to constrain Einstein's theory of gravity on the very largest scales. To be able to do this in a model-independent way, it makes sense to work with a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-13 Tessa Baker , Pedro G. Ferreira , Constantinos Skordis , Joe Zuntz

Cosmology is built on a relativistic understanding of gravity, where the geometry of the Universe is dynamically determined by matter and energy. In the cosmological concordance model, gravity is described by General Relativity, and it is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-26 Theodore Anton

A key signature of general relativity is that the two scalar potentials $\Phi$ and $\Psi$, when expressed in the longitudinal gauge, are equal in the absence of fluids with anisotropic stress. This is often expressed by stating that their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-07 Theodore Anton , Timothy Clifton , Daniel B. Thomas

With the increasing wealth of high-quality astronomical and cosmological data and the manifold departures from General Relativity in principle conceivable, the development of generalized parametrization frameworks that unify gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-22 Lucas Lombriser
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