Disentangling modified gravity from a dark force with gravitational redshift
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| author | Castello, Sveva Wang, Zhuangfei Dam, Lawrence Bonvin, Camille Pogosian, Levon |
| author_facet | Castello, Sveva Wang, Zhuangfei Dam, Lawrence Bonvin, Camille Pogosian, Levon |
| contents | The standard approach to test for deviations from general relativity on cosmological scales is to combine measurements of the growth rate of structure with gravitational lensing. In this study, we show that this method suffers from an important limitation with regard to these two probes: models of dark matter with additional interactions can lead to the very same observational signatures found in modified gravity and vice versa. Using synthetic data of redshift-space distortions, weak lensing, and cosmic microwave background, we demonstrate that this degeneracy is inevitable between modifications of gravity and a dark fifth force. We then show that the coming generation of surveys, in particular the Square Kilometre Array, will allow us to break the degeneracy between such models through measurements of gravitational redshift. Performing a Markov chain Monte Carlo analysis of the synthetic dataset, we quantify the extent to which gravitational redshift can distinguish between two representative classes of models, generalized Brans-Dicke (modified gravity) and coupled quintessence (fifth force). |
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| spellingShingle | Disentangling modified gravity from a dark force with gravitational redshift Castello, Sveva Wang, Zhuangfei Dam, Lawrence Bonvin, Camille Pogosian, Levon Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology The standard approach to test for deviations from general relativity on cosmological scales is to combine measurements of the growth rate of structure with gravitational lensing. In this study, we show that this method suffers from an important limitation with regard to these two probes: models of dark matter with additional interactions can lead to the very same observational signatures found in modified gravity and vice versa. Using synthetic data of redshift-space distortions, weak lensing, and cosmic microwave background, we demonstrate that this degeneracy is inevitable between modifications of gravity and a dark fifth force. We then show that the coming generation of surveys, in particular the Square Kilometre Array, will allow us to break the degeneracy between such models through measurements of gravitational redshift. Performing a Markov chain Monte Carlo analysis of the synthetic dataset, we quantify the extent to which gravitational redshift can distinguish between two representative classes of models, generalized Brans-Dicke (modified gravity) and coupled quintessence (fifth force). |
| title | Disentangling modified gravity from a dark force with gravitational redshift |
| topic | Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09379 |