Testing general relativity with present and future astrophysical observations

E Berti, E Barausse, V Cardoso… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
One century after its formulation, Einstein's general relativity (GR) has made remarkable
predictions and turned out to be compatible with all experimental tests. Most of these tests …

Cosmological tests of modified gravity

K Koyama - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We review recent progress in the construction of modified gravity models as alternatives to
dark energy as well as the development of cosmological tests of gravity. Einstein's theory of …

Overview of the DESI legacy imaging surveys

A Dey, DJ Schlegel, D Lang, R Blum… - The Astronomical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys (http://legacysurvey. org/) are a combination of
three public projects (the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey, the Bei**g–Arizona Sky …

The DESI experiment part I: science, targeting, and survey design

A Aghamousa, J Aguilar, S Ahlen, S Alam… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2016 - arxiv.org
DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument) is a Stage IV ground-based dark energy
experiment that will study baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) and the growth of structure …

Dark energy versus modified gravity

A Joyce, L Lombriser, F Schmidt - Annual Review of Nuclear …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Understanding the reason for the observed accelerated expansion of the Universe
represents one of the fundamental open questions in physics. In cosmology, a classification …

Testing screened modified gravity

P Brax, S Casas, H Desmond, B Elder - Universe, 2021 - mdpi.com
Long range scalar fields with a coupling to matter appear to violate known bounds on
gravitation in the solar system and the laboratory. This is evaded thanks to screening …

Lensing is low: cosmology, galaxy formation or new physics?

A Leauthaud, S Saito, S Hilbert… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We present high signal-to-noise galaxy–galaxy lensing measurements of the Baryon
Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey constant mass (CMASS) sample using 250 deg2 of weak …

A 2.5 per cent measurement of the growth rate from small-scale redshift space clustering of SDSS-III CMASS galaxies

BA Reid, HJ Seo, A Leauthaud… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
We perform the first fit to the anisotropic clustering of Sloan Digital Sky Survey III CMASS
data release 10 galaxies on scales of∼ 0.8–32 h− 1 Mpc. A standard halo occupation …

Novel Probes Project: Tests of gravity on astrophysical scales

T Baker, A Barreira, H Desmond, P Ferreira, B Jain… - Reviews of Modern …, 2021 - APS
The Novel Probes Project, an initiative to advance the field of astrophysical tests of the dark
sector by creating a forum that connects observers and theorists, is introduced. This review …

Testing gravity using cosmic voids

YC Cai, N Padilla, B Li - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We explore voids in dark matter and halo fields from simulations of Λ cold dark matter and
Hu–Sawicki f (R) models. In f (R) gravity, dark matter void abundances are greater than that …