Measurement of the Weyl potential evolution from the first three years of Dark Energy Survey data
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| author | Tutusaus, Isaac Bonvin, Camille Grimm, Nastassia |
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| contents | The Weyl potential, which is the sum of the spatial and temporal distortions of the Universe's geometry, provides a direct way of testing the theory of gravity and the validity of the $Λ$CDM (Lambda Cold Dark Matter) model. Here we present measurement of the Weyl potential at four redshifts bins using data from the first three years of observations of the Dark Energy Survey. We find that the measured Weyl potential is 2$σ$, respectively 2.8$σ$, below the $Λ$CDM predictions in the two lowest redshift bins. We show that these low values of the Weyl potential are at the origin of the tension between Cosmic Microwave Background measurements and weak lensing measurements, regarding the parameter $σ_8$ which quantifies the clustering of matter. Interestingly, we find that the tension remains if no information from the Cosmic Microwave Background is used. Dark Energy Survey data on their own prefer a high value of the primordial fluctuations, together with a slow evolution of the Weyl potential. An important feature of our method is that the measurements of the Weyl potential are model-independent and can therefore be confronted with any theory of gravity, allowing efficient tests of models beyond General Relativity. |
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| spellingShingle | Measurement of the Weyl potential evolution from the first three years of Dark Energy Survey data Tutusaus, Isaac Bonvin, Camille Grimm, Nastassia Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics The Weyl potential, which is the sum of the spatial and temporal distortions of the Universe's geometry, provides a direct way of testing the theory of gravity and the validity of the $Λ$CDM (Lambda Cold Dark Matter) model. Here we present measurement of the Weyl potential at four redshifts bins using data from the first three years of observations of the Dark Energy Survey. We find that the measured Weyl potential is 2$σ$, respectively 2.8$σ$, below the $Λ$CDM predictions in the two lowest redshift bins. We show that these low values of the Weyl potential are at the origin of the tension between Cosmic Microwave Background measurements and weak lensing measurements, regarding the parameter $σ_8$ which quantifies the clustering of matter. Interestingly, we find that the tension remains if no information from the Cosmic Microwave Background is used. Dark Energy Survey data on their own prefer a high value of the primordial fluctuations, together with a slow evolution of the Weyl potential. An important feature of our method is that the measurements of the Weyl potential are model-independent and can therefore be confronted with any theory of gravity, allowing efficient tests of models beyond General Relativity. |
| title | Measurement of the Weyl potential evolution from the first three years of Dark Energy Survey data |
| topic | Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.06434 |