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Moffat's Modified Gravity tested on X-COP galaxy clusters

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2022-04-13 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

Scalar Tensor Vector Gravity(STVG) is a fully covariant Lorentz invariant alternative theory of gravity also called as MOdified Gravity(MOG) which modifies General Relativity(GR) with dynamical massive vector field and scalar fields. In STVG the mass μ\mu of the vector field ϕ\phi and the Universal gravitational constant G enjoys the status of a dynamical field. We use the reconstructed total cluster mass obtained from X-ray observations by XMM-Newton telescope in combination with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich(SZ) effect observed within Planck all-sky survey to estimate the parameters α \alpha and μ\mu with modified cluster mass in MOG.

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@article{arxiv.2201.12804,
  title  = {Moffat's Modified Gravity tested on X-COP galaxy clusters},
  author = {Sreekanth Harikumar and Marek Biesiada},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.12804},
  year   = {2022}
}
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