Imprint of f(R) gravity in the cosmic magnification

Fuente: arXiv
Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Hauptverfasser: Duniya, Didam, Abebe, Amare, de la Cruz-Dombriz, Alvaro, Dunsby, Peter
Format: Preprint
Veröffentlicht: 2022
Schlagworte:
Online-Zugang:
Tags: Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
_version_ 1866916168680341504
author Duniya, Didam
Abebe, Amare
de la Cruz-Dombriz, Alvaro
Dunsby, Peter
author_facet Duniya, Didam
Abebe, Amare
de la Cruz-Dombriz, Alvaro
Dunsby, Peter
contents f(R) gravity is one of the simplest viable modifications to General Relativity: it passes local astrophysical tests, predicts both the early-time cosmic inflation and the late-time cosmic acceleration, and also describes dark matter. In this paper, we probe cosmic magnification on large scales in f(R) gravity, using the well-known Hu-Sawicki model as an example. Our results indicate that at redshifts z < 3, values of the model exponent n > 1 lead to inconsistent behaviour in the evolution of scalar perturbations. Moreover, when relativistic effects are taken into account in the large scale analysis, our results show that as z increases, large-scale changes in the cosmic magnification angular power spectrum owing to integral values of n tend to share a similar pattern, while those of decimal values tend to share another. This feature could be searched for in the experimental data, as a potential "smoking gun" for the given class of gravity models. Furthermore, we found that at z = 1 and lower, relativistic effects lead to a suppression of the cosmic magnification on large scales in f(R) gravity, relative to the concordance model; whereas, at z > 1, relativistic effects lead to a relative boost of the cosmic magnification. In general, relativistic effects enhance the potential of the cosmic magnification as a cosmological probe.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2210_09303
institution arXiv
publishDate 2022
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Imprint of f(R) gravity in the cosmic magnification
Duniya, Didam
Abebe, Amare
de la Cruz-Dombriz, Alvaro
Dunsby, Peter
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
f(R) gravity is one of the simplest viable modifications to General Relativity: it passes local astrophysical tests, predicts both the early-time cosmic inflation and the late-time cosmic acceleration, and also describes dark matter. In this paper, we probe cosmic magnification on large scales in f(R) gravity, using the well-known Hu-Sawicki model as an example. Our results indicate that at redshifts z < 3, values of the model exponent n > 1 lead to inconsistent behaviour in the evolution of scalar perturbations. Moreover, when relativistic effects are taken into account in the large scale analysis, our results show that as z increases, large-scale changes in the cosmic magnification angular power spectrum owing to integral values of n tend to share a similar pattern, while those of decimal values tend to share another. This feature could be searched for in the experimental data, as a potential "smoking gun" for the given class of gravity models. Furthermore, we found that at z = 1 and lower, relativistic effects lead to a suppression of the cosmic magnification on large scales in f(R) gravity, relative to the concordance model; whereas, at z > 1, relativistic effects lead to a relative boost of the cosmic magnification. In general, relativistic effects enhance the potential of the cosmic magnification as a cosmological probe.
title Imprint of f(R) gravity in the cosmic magnification
topic Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.09303