Constraining scalar-tensor modified gravity with gravitational waves and large scale structure surveys

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2021/01/068MaRDI QIDQ5025313zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tessa Baker, Ian Harrison

Publication date 1 February 2022

Published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13791

zbMATH Keywords

modified gravitycosmological parameters from LSSgravitational waves/experiments

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Gravitational waves (83C35) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15) Matrix models and tensor models for quantum field theory (81T32)

Abstract: The first multi-messenger gravitational wave event has had a transformative effect on the space of modified gravity models. In this paper we study the enhanced tests of gravity that are possible with a future set of gravitational wave standard siren events. We perform MCMC constraint forecasts for parameters in Horndeski scalar-tensor theories. In particular, we focus on the complementarity of gravitational waves with electromagnetic large-scale structure data from galaxy surveys. We find that the addition of fifty low redshift ($zlesssim0.2$) standard sirens from the advanced LIGO network offers only a modest improvement (a factor 1.1 -- 1.3, where 1.0 is no improvement) over existing constraints from electromagnetic observations of large-scale structures. In contrast, high redshift (up to $zsim10$) standard sirens from the future LISA satellite will improve constraints on the time evolution of the Planck mass in Horndeski theories by a factor $sim5$. By simulating different scenarios, we find this improvement to be robust to marginalisation over unknown merger inclination angles and to variation between three plausible models for the merger source population.

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Uses Software

• CosmoSIS
• CLASS
• ChainConsumer
• emcee
• IPython
• Matplotlib
• SciPy

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