Halos and Voids in f(R) Gravity

Li, B.; Zhao, G.; Koyama, K.

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.20573.x

Halos and Voids in f(R) Gravity

Li, B.; Zhao, G.; Koyama, K.

Authors

Professor Baojiu Li baojiu.li@durham.ac.uk
Professor

G. Zhao

K. Koyama

Abstract

In this paper, we study the distribution of dark matter haloes and voids using high‐resolution simulations in f(R) gravity models with the chameleon mechanism to screen the fifth force in a dense environment. For dark matter haloes, we show that the semi‐analytic thin‐shell condition provides a good approximation to describe the mass and environmental dependence of the screening of the fifth force in haloes. Due to stronger gravity, there are far more massive haloes and large voids in f(R) models compared with Λ cold dark matter (ΛCDM) models. The numbers of voids with an effective radius of 15 h−1 Mpc are twice and four times as many as those in ΛCDM for f(R) models with |fR0|= 10−5 and 10−4, respectively. This provides a new means to test the models using the upcoming observational data. We also find that haloes inside voids are significantly less screened in our simulations, and so are ideal objects for the gravity test.

Citation

Li, B., Zhao, G., & Koyama, K. (2012). Halos and Voids in f(R) Gravity. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 421(4), 3481-3487. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.20573.x

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	Apr 21, 2012
Deposit Date	Jan 20, 2012
Publicly Available Date	May 2, 2014
Journal	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Print ISSN	0035-8711
Electronic ISSN	1365-2966
Publisher	Royal Astronomical Society
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	421
Issue	4
Pages	3481-3487
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.20573.x
Keywords	Methods: analytical, Methods: numerical, Cosmology: theory, Dark energy, Large-scale structure of Universe.

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