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Redshift space distortions within voids provide a unique method to test for environmental dependence of the growth rate of structures in low density regions, where effects of modified gravity theories might be important. We derive a linear…

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Massive neutrinos and $f(R)$ modified gravity have degenerate observational signatures that can impact the interpretation of results in galaxy survey experiments, such as cosmological parameter estimations and gravity model tests. Because…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-22 Renate Mauland , Øystein Elgarøy , David Fonseca Mota , Hans Arnold Winther

We study the possibility of using correlations between spatial modulations in the observed luminosity distribution of galaxies and the underlying density field as a cosmological probe. Considering redshift ranges, where magnification…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-07 Martin Feix

We perform a comprehensive redshift-space distortion analysis based on cosmic voids in the large-scale distribution of galaxies observed with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. To this end, we measure multipoles of the void-galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-12 Nico Hamaus , Marie-Claude Cousinou , Alice Pisani , Marie Aubert , Stéphanie Escoffier , Jochen Weller

A constraint on the viable f(R) model is investigated by confronting theoretical predictions with the multipole power spectrum of the luminous red galaxy sample of the Sloan Digital Sky survey data release 7. We obtain a constraint on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-25 Kazuhiro Yamamoto , Gen Nakamura , Gert Huetsi , Tatsuya Narikawa , Takahiro Sato

We use the recently released cosmic chronometer data and the latest measured value of the local Hubble parameter, combined with the latest joint light curves of Supernovae Type Ia, and Baryon Acoustic Oscillation distance measurements, in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-09 Rafael C. Nunes , Supriya Pan , Emmanuel N. Saridakis , Everton M. C. Abreu

Modifications of the equations of general relativity at large distances offer one possibility to explain the observed properties of our Universe without invoking a cosmological constant. Numerous proposals for such modified gravity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Fabio Fontanot , Ewald Puchwein , Volker Springel , Davide Bianchi

We provide insight about the full form of the equations for matter density perturbations and the scalar Bardeen metric potentials in general $f(R)$ theories of gravity. When considering viable modifications to the standard $\Lambda$CDM…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-21 Miguel Barroso Varela , Álvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz

We investigate the Hubble constant tension within $f(R)$ modified gravity in the Jordan frame, focusing on its application to the dynamics of an isotropic Universe. A scalar field, non-minimally coupled to the metric, provides an extra…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-07 Tiziano Schiavone , Giovanni Montani

Since last two decades $f(R)$ gravity theory has been extensively used as a serious alternative of general relativity to mimic the effects of dark energy. The theory presents a Yukawa correction to Newtonian gravitational potential, acting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-02 Debojit Paul , Sanjeev Kalita

This study is devoted to the implications of scale-dependent gravity in Cosmology. Redshift-space distortion data indicate that there is a tension between $\Lambda$CDM and available observations as far as the value of the rms density…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-08 Grigoris Panotopoulos , Ángel Rincón

The abundance of massive galaxy clusters is a powerful probe of departures from General Relativity (GR) on cosmic scales. Despite current stringent constraints placed by stellar and galactic tests, on larger scales alternative theories of…

This paper is the third in a series on tests of gravity using observations of stars and nearby dwarf galaxies. We carry out four distinct tests using published data on the kinematics and morphology of dwarf galaxies, motivated by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Vinu Vikram , Anna Cabre , Bhuvnesh Jain , Jake VanderPlas

Models of modified gravity offer promising alternatives to the concordance $\Lambda$CDM cosmology to explain the late-time acceleration of the universe. A popular such model is $f(R)$ gravity, in which the Ricci scalar in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-14 Christine Corbett Moran , Romain Teyssier , Baojiu Li

In this paper we present cosmological constraints on several well-known $f(R)$ models, but also on a new class of models that are variants of the Hu-Sawicki one of the form $f(R)=R-\frac{2\Lambda}{1+b\;y(R,\Lambda)}$, that interpolate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-29 Judit Pérez-Romero , Savvas Nesseris

It has been recently recognized that the observational relativistic effects, mainly arising from the light propagation in an inhomogeneous universe, induce the dipole asymmetry in the cross-correlation function of galaxies. In particular,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-06 Shohei Saga , Atsushi Taruya , Michel-Andrès Breton , Yann Rasera

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) provides an unprecedented opportunity to test deviations from general relativity (GR) that introduce a new physical scale within its redshift range. Using the connection between a Yukawa-like…

Models which accelerate the expansion of the universe through the addition of a function of the Ricci scalar f(R) leave a characteristic signature in the large-scale structure of the universe at the Compton wavelength scale of the extra…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Yong-Seon Song , Hiranya Peiris , Wayne Hu

Gravitational redshift imprints a slight asymmetry in the observed clustering of galaxies, producing odd multipoles (e.g.\ the dipole) in the cross-correlation function. But there are other sources of asymmetry which must also be considered…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-18 Lawrence Dam , Camille Bonvin

Stage-IV surveys will enable unprecedented tests of gravity on cosmological scales. However, assuming General Relativity in the analysis of large-scale structure could introduce systematic biases if gravity deviates from GR at these scales.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-27 Marc Alemany-Gotor , Cristian Viglione , Pablo Fosalba , Isaac Tutusaus