Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 96, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.96.043509
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- Royal Society University
- Australian Research Council [FT130101086]
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/I000976/1, ST/L000652/1]
- Leverhulme Trust
- ICG
- SEPNet
- University of Portsmouth
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/I000976/1, ST/L000652/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Australian Research Council [FT130101086] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
- STFC [ST/L000393/1, ST/I000976/1, ST/L000652/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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In modified gravity the observed acceleration of the universe is explained by changing the gravitational force law or the number of degrees of freedom in the gravitational sector. Both possibilities can be tested by measurements of cosmological structure formation. In this paper we elaborate the details of such tests using the Galileon model as a case study. We pay attention to the possibility that each new degree of freedom may have stochastically independent initial conditions, generating different types of potential well in the early universe and breaking complete correlation between density and velocity power spectra. This stochastic bias can confuse schemes to parametrize the predictions of modified gravity models, such as the use of the growth parameter f alone. Using data from the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey we show that it will be possible to obtain constraints using information about the cosmological-scale force law embedded in the multipole power spectra of redshift-space distortions. As an example, we obtain an upper limit on the strength of the conformal coupling to matter in the cubic Galileon model, giving vertical bar 1/M vertical bar less than or similar to 200/M-P. This allows the fifth-force to be stronger than gravity, but is consistent with zero coupling.
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