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We propose a novel laboratory test of gravity combining seismic-wave measurements with cosmic-ray muon detections. Quantum-gravity corrections to the anharmonic Debye model are derived, yielding a modified bulk modulus that encodes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-09 Aneta Wojnar

The Effective Field Theory of Dark Energy (EFTofDE) provides a systematic and model-independent framework to study dark energy (DE) and modified gravity (MG) with one additional scalar degree of freedom. It can describe the known models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-18 Chi Zheng , Wei Liu , Zonghao Zhan , Wenjuan Fang

We use a range of cosmological data to constrain phenomenological modifications to general relativity on cosmological scales, through modifications to the Poisson and lensing equations. We include cosmic microwave background anisotropy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-29 Agnès Ferté , Donnacha Kirk , Andrew R. Liddle , Joe Zuntz

We present the joint tomographic analysis of galaxy-galaxy lensing and galaxy clustering in harmonic space, using galaxy catalogues from the first three years of observations by the Dark Energy Survey (DES Y3). We utilise the redMaGiC and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-19 L. Faga , F. Andrade-Oliveira , H. Camacho , R. Rosenfeld , M. Lima , C. Doux , X. Fang , J. Prat , A. Porredon , M. Aguena , A. Alarcon , S. Allam , O. Alves , A. Amon , S. Avila , D. Bacon , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , R. Chen , A. Choi , J. Cordero , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , J. DeRose , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , A. Drlica-Wagner , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , I. Ferrero , A. Ferté , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , M. Gatti , E. Gaztanaga , G. Giannini , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , I. Harrison , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , T. Jeltema , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , S. Lee , C. Lidman , N. MacCrann , J. L. Marshall , J. McCullough , J. Mena-Fernández , R. Miquel , J. Myles , A. Navarro-Alsina , A. Palmese , S. Pandey , M. Paterno , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , M. Raveri , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , R. P. Rollins , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , S. Samuroff , C. Sánchez , E. Sanchez , D. Sanchez Cid , M. Schubnell , L. F. Secco , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , M. A. Troxel , I. Tutusaus , N. Weaverdyck , P. Wiseman , B. Yanny , B. Yin

Observations of black hole shadows with the Event Horizon Telescope have paved way for a novel approach to testing Einstein's theory of general relativity. Early analyses of the measured shadow put constraints on theory-agnostic parameters…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-04 Sourabh Nampalliwar , Saurabh K

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

We present MGLenS, a large series of modified gravity lensing simulations tailored for cosmic shear data analyses and forecasts in which cosmological and modified gravity parameters are varied simultaneously. Based on the FORGE and BRIDGE…

Galaxy surveys provide one of the best ways to constrain the theory of gravity at cosmological scales. They can be used to constrain the two gravitational potentials encoding time, $\Psi$, and spatial, $\Phi$, distortions, which are exactly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-26 Isaac Tutusaus , Daniel Sobral-Blanco , Camille Bonvin

Extended Theories of Gravity with additional scalar degrees of freedom have recently acquired increasing interest due to the presence of a screening mechanism that allows suppressing at small scales (e.g., the Solar System scale) every…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Enrico Laudato , Vincenzo Salzano , Keiichi Umetsu

We present a new test of gravitational interactions at the r\sim(0.2-20)Mpc scale, around the virial radius of dark matter halos measured through cluster-galaxy lensing of maxBCG clusters from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We employ…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-30 Lucas Lombriser , Fabian Schmidt , Tobias Baldauf , Rachel Mandelbaum , Uros Seljak , Robert E. Smith

We employ robust weak gravitational lensing measurements to improve cosmological constraints from measurements of the galaxy cluster mass function and its evolution, using X-ray selected clusters detected in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey. Our…

Solar System tests give nowadays constraints on the estimated value of the cosmological constant, which can be accurately derived from different experiments regarding gravitational redshift, light deflection, gravitational time-delay and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Gianluca Allemandi , Matteo Luca Ruggiero

Gravitational wave signals from compact binary coalescences offer a powerful and reliable probe of General Relativity. To date, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration has provided stringent consistency tests of General Relativity predictions.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-12 Andrea Begnoni , Walter Del Pozzo , Matteo Pegorin , Joachim Pomper , Angelo Ricciardone

In this review, we outline the expected tests of gravity that will be achieved at cosmological scales in the upcoming decades. We focus mainly on constraints on phenomenologically parameterized deviations from general relativity, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-21 Matteo Martinelli , Santiago Casas

The direct detection of gravitational waves (GWs) opened a new chapter in the modern cosmology to probe possible deviations from the general relativity (GR) theory. In the present work, we investigate for the first time the modified GW form…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-16 Rafael C. Nunes , Marcio E. S. Alves , Jose C. N. de Araujo

We propose a "Copenhagen interpretation" for spacetime noncommutativity. The goal is to be able to predict results of simple experiments involving signal propagation directly from commutation relations. A model predicting an energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Vyacheslav S. Rychkov

The status of experimental tests of general relativity and of theoretical frameworks for analysing them is reviewed. Einstein's equivalence principle (EEP) is well supported by experiments such as the Eotvos experiment, tests of special…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Clifford M. Will

The status of experimental tests of general relativity and of theoretical frameworks for analysing them are reviewed. Einstein's equivalence principle (EEP) is well supported by experiments such as the E\"otv\"os experiment, tests of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-19 Clifford M. Will

In Einstein's general relativity (GR), gravity is described by a massless spin-2 metric field, and the extension of GR to include a mass term for the graviton has profound implication for gravitation and cosmology. Besides the gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-23 Lijing Shao

Current and upcoming imaging galaxy surveys are pushing galaxy samples to higher and higher redshifts. This push will be more pronounced for lens galaxies, for which we only need to measure galaxy positions, not shapes. As a result, we will…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-02 Dane N. Cross , Carles Sánchez