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星系团对$f(R)$引力的新约束

New constraints on $f(R)$ gravity from clusters of galaxies

Matteo Cataneo, David Rapetti, Fabian Schmidt, Adam B. Mantz, Steven W. Allen, Douglas E. Applegate, Patrick L. Kelly, Anja von der Linden, R. Glenn Morris

摘要:

大量的大质量星系团是在宇宙尺度上偏离广义相对论(GR)的一个强有力的探测器。尽管目前恒星和银河系的测试有严格的限制,但在更大尺度上,诸如$f(R)$之类的引力理论仍然可以作为有效的理论工作。在这里,我们提出了两个流行的模型$f(R)$,胡-Sawicki和“设计师”,来自一个完全自洽的分析,目前的X射线选择集群的样本和占宇宙学和天体物理参数之间的协方差的限制。利用团簇数计数,结合宇宙微波背景辐射(CMB)和大尺度结构产生的CMB透镜势的最新数据,以及对背景膨胀历史和平均物质密度的其他宇宙学约束,我们得到了Hu-Sawicki的$\log_{10}|f_{R0}| < 4.79$和$\log_{10}B_0 < 3.75$的上界,置信度为95.4%(使用$n=1$)和设计师模型。我们的研究结果的鲁棒性来自高质量的集群增长数据的最大规模的集群已知的红移$z \sim 0.5$,严格控制系统的不确定性,包括一个准确和精确的质量校准弱引力透镜数据,并使用完整的形状的晕质量函数在我们的数据的质量范围。

英文摘要:

The abundance of massive galaxy clusters is a powerful probe of departures from General Relativity (GR) on cosmic scales. Despite current stringent constraints placed by stellar and galactic tests, on larger scales alternative theories of gravity such as $f(R)$ can still work as effective theories. Here we present constraints on two popular models of $f(R)$, Hu-Sawicki and "designer", derived from a fully self-consistent analysis of current samples of X-ray selected clusters and accounting for all the covariances between cosmological and astrophysical parameters. Using cluster number counts in combination with recent data from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and the CMB lensing potential generated by large scale structures, as well as with other cosmological constraints on the background expansion history and its mean matter density, we obtain the upper bounds $\log_{10}|f_{R0}| < 4.79$ and $\log_{10}B_0 < 3.75$ at the 95.4 per cent confidence level, for the Hu-Sawicki (with $n=1$) and designer models, respectively. The robustness of our results derives from high quality cluster growth data for the most massive clusters known out to redshifts $z \sim 0.5$, a tight control of systematic uncertainties including an accurate and precise mass calibration from weak gravitational lensing data, and the use of the full shape of the halo mass function over the mass range of our data.

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