Chameleon screening depends on the shape and structure of NFW halos

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2022/04/047zbMATH Open1506.83064arXiv2108.10364OpenAlexW4287021637MaRDI QIDQ5099263FDOQ5099263

Clare Burrage, Adam Moss, Chad Briddon, Andrius Tamosiunas, Weiguang Cui

Publication date: 31 August 2022

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

Abstract: Chameleon gravity is an example of a model that gives rise to interesting phenomenology on cosmological scales while simultaneously possessing a screening mechanism, allowing it to avoid solar system constraints. Such models result in non-linear field equations, which can be solved analytically only in simple highly symmetric systems. In this work we study the equation of motion of a scalar-tensor theory with chameleon screening using the finite element method. More specifically, we solve the field equation for spherical and triaxial NFW cluster-sized halos. This allows a detailed investigation of the relationship between the NFW concentration and the virial mass parameters and the magnitude of the chameleon acceleration, as measured at the virial radius. In addition, we investigate the effects on the chameleon acceleration due to halo triaxiality. We focus on the parameter space regions that are still allowed by the observational constraints. We find that given our dataset, the largest allowed value for the chameleon-to-NFW acceleration ratio at the virial radius is $sim10^{-7}$. This result strongly indicates that the chameleon models that are still allowed by the observational constraints would not lead to any measurable effects on galaxy cluster scales. Nonetheless, we also find that there is a direct relationship between the NFW potential and the chameleon-to-NFW acceleration ratio at the virial radius. Similarly, there is a direct (yet a much more complicated) relationship between the NFW concentration, the virial mass and the acceleration ratios at the virial radius. Finally, we find that triaxiality introduces extra directional effects on the acceleration measurements. These effects in combination could potentially be used in future observational searches for fifth forces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.10364

zbMATH Keywords

gravitymodified gravityequations of motiongalaxy clustersand 2-body problem in GR and beyond

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Nonlinear higher-order PDEs (35G20)

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