Cosmological constraints with the effective fluid approach for modified gravity

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2021/05/064MaRDI QIDQ5028153zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Wilmar Cardona, Rubén Arjona, Alejandro Estrada, Savvas Nesseris

Publication date 8 February 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.05282

zbMATH Keywords

modified gravitycosmological parameters from CMBRneutrino masses from cosmology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Boltzmann equations (35Q20) Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Constrained dynamics, Dirac's theory of constraints (70H45)

Abstract: Cosmological constraints of Modified Gravity (MG) models are seldom carried out rigorously. First, even though general MG models evolve differently (i.e., background and perturbations) to the standard cosmological model, it is usual to assume a $Lambda$CDM background. This treatment is not correct and in the era of precision cosmology could induce undesired biases in cosmological parameters. Second, neutrino mass is usually held fixed in the analyses which could obscure its relation to MG parameters. In a couple of previous papers we showed that by using the Effective Fluid Approach we can accurately compute observables in fairly general MG models. An appealing advantage of our approach is that it allows a pretty easy implementation of this kinds of models in Boltzmann solvers (i.e., less error--prone) while having a useful analytical description of the effective fluid to understand the underlying physics. This paper illustrates how an effective fluid approach can be used to carry out proper analyses of cosmological constraints in MG models. We investigated three MG models including the sum of neutrino masses as a varying parameter in our Markov Chain Monte Carlo analyses. Two models (i.e., Designer $f(R)$ [DES-fR] and Designer Horndeski [HDES]) have a background matching $Lambda$CDM, while in a third model (i.e., Hu $$ Sawicki $f(R)$ model [HS]) the background differs from the standard model. In this way we estimate how relevant the background is when constraining MG parameters along with neutrinos' masses. We implement the models in the popular Boltzmann solver CLASS and use recent, available data (i.e., Planck 2018, CMB lensing, BAO, SNIa Pantheon compilation, $H_0$ from SHOES, and RSD Gold-18 compilation) to compute tight cosmological constraints in the MG parameters that account for deviation from the $Lambda$CDM model. [abridged]

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• K-mouflage imprints on cosmological observables and data constraints
• Testing the ΛCDM paradigm with growth rate data and machine learning
• Effective fluid FLRW cosmologies of minimal massive gravity
• Scalar fields near compact objects: resummation versus UV completion
• Comparison of different approaches to the quasi-static approximation in Horndeski models
• Cosmological constraints on sub-horizon scales modified gravity theories with MGCLASS II
• New MGCAMB tests of gravity with CosmoMC and Cobaya
• MGCAMB with massive neutrinos and dynamical dark energy
• A data-driven reconstruction of Horndeski gravity via the Gaussian processes
• Fully relativistic predictions in Horndeski gravity from standard Newtonian N-body simulations
• Neutrino mass and kinetic gravity braiding degeneracies

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Uses Software

• CLASS
• Monte Python
• MontePython 3
• CosmoMC

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