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Weak lensing by galaxy troughs with modified gravity

Barreira, Alexandre; Bose, Sownak; Li, Baojiu; Llinares, Claudio

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Authors

Alexandre Barreira

Sownak Bose

Claudio Llinares



Abstract

We study the imprints that theories of gravity beyond GR can leave on the lensing signal around line of sight directions that are predominantly halo-underdense (called troughs) and halo-overdense. To carry out our investigations, we consider the normal branch of DGP gravity, as well as a phenomenological variant thereof that directly modifies the lensing potential. The predictions of these models are obtained with N-body simulation and ray-tracing methods using the ECOSMOG and Ray-Ramses codes. We analyse the stacked lensing convergence profiles around the underdense and overdense lines of sight, which exhibit, respectively, a suppression and a boost w.r.t. the mean in the field of view. The modifications to gravity in these models strengthen the signal w.r.t. ΛCDM in a scale-independent way. We find that the size of this effect is the same for both underdense and overdense lines of sight, which implies that the density field along the overdense directions on the sky is not sufficiently evolved to trigger the suppression effects of the screening mechanism. These results are robust to variations in the minimum halo mass and redshift ranges used to identify the lines of sight, as well as to different line of sight aperture sizes and criteria for their underdensity and overdensity thresholds.

Citation

Barreira, A., Bose, S., Li, B., & Llinares, C. (2017). Weak lensing by galaxy troughs with modified gravity. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2017(02), Article 031. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2017/02/031

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Feb 6, 2017
Online Publication Date Feb 16, 2017
Publication Date Feb 16, 2017
Deposit Date Aug 21, 2016
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Publisher IOP Publishing
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 2017
Issue 02
Article Number 031
DOI https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2017/02/031
Related Public URLs http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.08436

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This is an author-created, un-copyedited version of an article published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. IOP Publishing Ltd is not responsible for any errors or omissions in this version of the manuscript or any version derived from it. The Version of Record is available online at https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2017/02/031





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