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Weak lensing by voids in modified lensing potentials

Barreira, A.; Cautun, M.; Li, B.; Baugh, C.M.; Pascoli, S.

Authors

A. Barreira

M. Cautun

C.M. Baugh



Abstract

We study lensing by voids in Cubic Galileon and Nonlocal gravity cosmologies, which are examples of theories of gravity that modify the lensing potential. We find voids in the dark matter and halo density fields of N-body simulations and compute their lensing signal analytically from the void density profiles, which we show are well fit by a simple analytical formula. In the Cubic Galileon model, the modifications to gravity inside voids are not screened and they approximately double the size of the lensing effects compared to GR. The difference is largely determined by the direct effects of the fifth force on lensing and less so by the modified density profiles. For this model, we also discuss the subtle impact on the force and lensing calculations caused by the screening effects of haloes that exist in and around voids. In the Nonlocal model, the impact of the modified density profiles and the direct modifications to lensing are comparable, but they boost the lensing signal by only ≈ 10%, compared with that of GR. Overall, our results suggest that lensing by voids is a promising tool to test models of gravity that modify lensing.

Citation

Barreira, A., Cautun, M., Li, B., Baugh, C., & Pascoli, S. (2015). Weak lensing by voids in modified lensing potentials. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2015(08), https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2015/08/028

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jul 17, 2015
Publication Date Aug 13, 2015
Deposit Date Aug 17, 2015
Publicly Available Date Aug 13, 2016
Journal Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Electronic ISSN 1475-7516
Publisher IOP Publishing
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 2015
Issue 08
DOI https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2015/08/028
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1403932
Related Public URLs http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.05809

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