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Weak gravitational lensing provides a means of testing the long-range properties of gravity. Current measurements are consistent with standard Newtonian gravity and inconsistent with substantial modifications on Mpc scales. The data allows…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin White , C. S. Kochanek

Cosmic voids are progressively emerging as a new viable cosmological probe. Their abundance and density profiles are sensitive to modifications of gravity, as well as to dark energy and neutrinos. The main goal of this work is to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-21 Sofia Contarini , Federico Marulli , Lauro Moscardini , Alfonso Veropalumbo , Carlo Giocoli , Marco Baldi

The deflection angle of Kerr-MOG black holes is studied for different values of the parameter in modified gravity (MOG). To this end, we employ the Gauss-Bonnet theorem, which was first studied by Gibbons and Werner and then extended by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-29 Ali Övgün , İzzet Sakallı , Joel Saavedra

Gravitational lensing offers unique opportunities to learn about the astrophysical origin of distant sources, the abundance of intervening objects acting as lenses, and gravity and cosmology in general. However, all this information can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-20 Anson Chen , Paolo Cremonese , Jose María Ezquiaga , David Keitel

We make a consistency test for the general relativity (GR) through measuring the growth index $\gamma$ in a universe with massive (sterile/active) neutrinos. We employ the redshift space distortion measurements to do the analysis. To…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-01 Ming-Ming Zhao , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

A small fraction of gravitational-wave (GW) signals from binary black holes (BBHs) will be gravitationally lensed by intervening galaxies and galaxy clusters. Strong lensing will produce multiple identical copies of the GW signal arriving…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-09 Koustav N. Maity , Souvik Jana , Tejaswi Venumadhav , Ankur Barsode , Parameswaran Ajith

Studying the statistical properties of the large-scale structure in the Universe with weak gravitational lensing is a prime goal of several current and forthcoming galaxy surveys. The power that weak lensing has to constrain cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 Pierre Burger , Oliver Friedrich , Joachim Harnois-Déraps , Peter Schneider

An important route to testing General Relativity (GR) at cosmological scales is usually done by constraining modified gravity (MG) parameters added to the Einstein perturbed equations. Most studies have analyzed so far constraints on pairs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-10 Cristhian Garcia-Quintero , Mustapha Ishak

We investigate clustering properties of dark matter halos and galaxies to search for optimal statistics and scales where possible departures from general relativity (GR) could be found. We use large N-body cosmological simulations to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Jorge Enrique García-Farieta , Wojciech A. Hellwing , Suhani Gupta , Maciej Bilicki

We consider the effects of strong gravitational lensing by galaxy-scale deflectors on the observations of high-energy (E$\gg$GeV) neutrinos (HEN). For HEN at cosmological distances, the optical depth for multiple imaging is $\sim 10^{-3}$,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-01 Yoon Chan Taak , Tommaso Treu , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Alexander Kusenko

This work investigates the impact of different Modified Gravity (MG) models on the large-scale structures (LSS) properties in relation to the cosmic web (CW), using N-body simulations of f(R) and nDGP models. We analyse the impact of the MG…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-28 Suhani Gupta , Simon Pfeifer , Punyakoti Ganeshaiah Veena , Wojciech A. Hellwing

We use the cosmic shear data from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey to place constraints on $f(R)$ and {\it Generalized Dilaton} models of modified gravity. This is highly complimentary to other probes since the constraints…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-21 Joachim Harnois-Déraps , Dipak Munshi , Patrick Valageas , Ludovic van Waerbeke , Philippe Brax , Peter Coles , Luca Rizzo

We present a new approach to measure the mass function of dark matter halos and to discriminate models with differing values of Omega through weak gravitational lensing. We measure the distribution of peaks from simulated lensing surveys…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Bhuvnesh Jain , Ludovic Van Waerbeke

Strong gravitational lensing is a gravitational wave (GW) propagation effect that influences the inferred GW source parameters and the cosmological environment. Identifying strongly-lensed GW images is challenging as waveform amplitude…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-02 Yijun Wang , Rico K. L. Lo , Alvin K. Y. Li , Yanbei Chen

Weak gravitational lensing observations probe the spectrum and evolution of density fluctuations and the cosmological parameters which govern them. The non-linear evolution of large scale structure produces a non-Gaussian signal which is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Asantha Cooray , Wayne Hu

We investigate the statistics of gravitational lenses in flat, low-density cosmological models with different cosmic equations of state w. We compute the lensing probabilities as a function of image separation \theta using a lens population…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Nick Sarbu , David Rusin , Chung-Pei Ma

The modifications induced in the standard weak-lensing formula if Newtonian gravity differs from inverse square law at large distances are studied. The possibility of putting bounds on the mass of gravitons from lensing data is explored. A…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. R. Choudhury , G. C. Joshi , S. Mahajan , B. H. J. McKellar

In this study, we investigate gravitational lensing within modified gravity frameworks, focusing on the Hu-Sawicki $f(R)$ and normal branch Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati (nDGP) models, and we compare these results with those obtained from general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-03 Ali Tizfahm , Saeed Fakhry , Javad T. Firouzjaee , Antonino Del Popolo

We use cosmological constraints from current data sets and a figure of merit (FoM) approach to probe any deviations from general relativity (GR) at cosmological scales. The FoM approach is used to study the constraining power of various…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-30 Jason Dossett , Jacob Moldenhauer , Mustapha Ishak

The Universe's matter inhomogeneity gravitationally affects the propagation of gravitational waves (GWs), causing the lensing effect. Particularly, the weak lensing of GWs has been studied within the range of the Born approximation to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-08 Morifumi Mizuno , Teruaki Suyama