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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 452, Issue 2, Pages 1171-1183Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv1366
Keywords
gravitation; gravitational lensing: weak; X-rays: galaxies: clusters
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- STFC [ST/F007159/1, ST/I000976/1, ST/L005573/1, ST/M003574/1, ST/H001581/1, ST/L000644/1, ST/K00090X/1, ST/L00061X/1, ST/N001087/1, ST/L006529/1, PP/E001149/1, ST/H002391/1, ST/J001465/1, ST/L000652/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/L005573/1, ST/L00061X/1, ST/F007159/1, PP/E001149/1, ST/H002391/1, ST/M000966/1, ST/K00090X/1, ST/J001465/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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The chameleon gravity model postulates the existence of a scalar field that couples with matter to mediate a fifth force. If it exists, this fifth force would influence the hot X-ray emitting gas filling the potential wells of galaxy clusters. However, it would not influence the clusters weak lensing signal. Therefore, by comparing X-ray and weak lensing profiles, one can place upper limits on the strength of a fifth force. This technique has been attempted before using a single, nearby cluster (Coma, z = 0.02). Here we apply the technique to the stacked profiles of 58 clusters at higher redshifts (0.1 < z < 1.2), including 12 new to the literature, using X-ray data from the XMM Cluster Survey and weak lensing data from the Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope Lensing Survey. Using a multiparameter Markov chain Monte Carlo analysis, we constrain the two chameleon gravity parameters (beta and phi(infinity)). Our fits are consistent with general relativity, not requiring a fifth force. In the special case of f(R) gravity (where beta = root 1/6), we set an upper limit on the background field amplitude today of |f(R0)| < 6 x 10(-5) (95 per cent CL). This is one of the strongest constraints to date on |f(R0)| on cosmological scales. We hope to improve this constraint in future by extending the study to hundreds of clusters using data from the Dark Energy Survey.
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