Screening maps of the local Universe I - Methodology

Shao, Shi; Li, Baojiu; Cautun, Marius; Wang, Huiyuan; Wang, Jie

doi:10.1093/mnras/stz2450

Screening maps of the local Universe I - Methodology

Shao, Shi; Li, Baojiu; Cautun, Marius; Wang, Huiyuan; Wang, Jie

Authors

Shi Shao

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

Marius Cautun

Huiyuan Wang

Jie Wang

Abstract

We introduce the LOCal Universe Screening Test Suite (LOCUSTS) project, an effort to create ‘screening maps’ in the nearby Universe to identify regions in our neighbourhood which are screened, i.e., regions where deviations from General Relativity (GR) are suppressed, in various modified gravity (MG) models. In these models, deviations from the GR force law are often stronger for smaller astrophysical objects, making them ideal test beds of gravity in the local Universe. However, the actual behaviour of the modified gravity force also depends on the environment of the objects, and to make accurate predictions one has to take the latter into account. This can be done approximately using luminous objects in the local Universe as tracers of the underlying dark matter field. Here, we propose a new approach that takes advantage of state-of-the-art Bayesian reconstruction of the mass distribution in the Universe, which allows us to solve the modified gravity equations and predict the screening effect more accurately. This is the first of a series of works, in which we present our methodology and some qualitative results of screening for a specific MG model, f(R) gravity. Applications to test models using observations and extensions to other classes of models will be studied in future works. The screening maps of this work can be found at this link

Citation

Shao, S., Li, B., Cautun, M., Wang, H., & Wang, J. (2019). Screening maps of the local Universe I - Methodology. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 489(4), 4912-4925. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2450

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Aug 28, 2019
Online Publication Date	Sep 5, 2019
Publication Date	Nov 30, 2019
Deposit Date	Aug 29, 2019
Publicly Available Date	Sep 17, 2019
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	489
Issue	4
Pages	4912-4925
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2450
Related Public URLs	https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.02081

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