Wednesday, November 9, 2011

1111.2020 (Lucas Lombriser et al.)

Cluster Density Profiles as a Test of Modified Gravity    [PDF]

Lucas Lombriser, Fabian Schmidt, Tobias Baldauf, Rachel Mandelbaum, Uros Seljak, Robert E. Smith
We present a new test of gravitational interactions at the r\simeq(0.2-20)Mpc scale, around the virial radius of dark matter halos measured through cluster-galaxy lensing of maxBCG clusters from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We employ predictions from self-consistent simulations of f(R) gravity to find an upper bound on the background field amplitude of f_R0<3.5x10^-3 at the 1D-marginalized 95% confidence level. We also constrain the amplitude F_0 of a phenomenological fit modeled on the profile enhancement induced by f(R) gravity when not including effects from the increased cluster abundance in f(R). In both scenarios, dark-matter-only simulations of the concordance model corresponding to f_R0=0 and F_0=0 are consistent with the lensing measurements at the 68% confidence level.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.2020

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