Testing non-local gravity by clusters of galaxies

Abstract

Extended theories of gravity have been extensively investigated during the last thirty years, aiming at fixing infrared and ultraviolet shortcomings of General Relativity and of the associated $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model. Recently, non-local theories of gravity have drawn increasing attention due to their potential to ameliorate both the ultraviolet and infrared behavior of gravitational interaction. In particular, Integral Kernel theories of Gravity provide a viable mechanism to explain the late time cosmic acceleration so as to avoid the introduction of any form of unknown dark energy. On the other hand, these models represent a natural link towards quantum gravity. Here, we study a scalar-tensor equivalent model of General Relativity corrected with non-local terms, where corrections are selected by the existence of Noether symmetries. After performing the weak field limit and generalizing the results to extended mass distributions, we analyse the non-local model at galaxy cluster scales, by comparing the theoretical predictions with gravitational lensing observations from the CLASH program. We obtain agreement with data at the same level of statistical significance as General Relativity. We also provide constraints for the Navarro--Frenk--White parameters and lower bounds for the non-local length scales. The results are finally compared with those from the literature.

arXiv comment20 pages, 11 figures, 1 table. New version accepted for publication

References in corpus (70)

• The Structure of Cold Dark Matter Halos
• Dynamics of dark energy
• The Cosmological Constant and Dark Energy
• Particle Dark Matter: Evidence, Candidates and Constraints
• f(R) Theories Of Gravity
• Unified cosmic history in modified gravity: from F(R) theory to Lorentz non-invariant models
• Modified Gravity and Cosmology
• f(R) theories
• Extended Theories of Gravity
• Modified Gravity Theories on a Nutshell: Inflation, Bounce and Late-time Evolution
• Weak Gravitational Lensing
• f(T) teleparallel gravity and cosmology
• The Completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Cosmological Implications from two Decades of Spectroscopic Surveys at the Apache Point observatory
• Curvature Quintessence
• Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing
• Cosmology and Fundamental Physics with the Euclid Satellite
• Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH): An Overview
• Super-renormalizable Quantum Gravity
• Beyond $\Lambda$CDM: Problems, solutions, and the road ahead
• Testing General Relativity in Cosmology
• Nonlocal Cosmology
• Low surface brightness galaxies rotation curves in the low energy limit of $R^n$ gravity : no need for dark matter?
• A Nested Sampling Algorithm for Cosmological Model Selection
• Dark energy two decades after: Observables, probes, consistency tests
• Solar system and equivalence principle constraints on f(R) gravity by chameleon approach
• Modified non-local-F(R) gravity as the key for the inflation and dark energy
• Hubble Space Telescope Combined Strong and Weak Lensing Analysis of the CLASH Sample: Mass and Magnification Models and Systematic Uncertainties
• CLASH: Weak-Lensing Shear-and-Magnification Analysis of 20 Galaxy Clusters
• Fast and reliable MCMC for cosmological parameter estimation
• An accurate physical model for halo concentrations
• The accretion history of dark matter halos III: A physical model for the concentration-mass relation
• Cosmological perturbations and structure formation in nonlocal infrared modifications of general relativity
• Non-local gravity and dark energy
• CLASH: The Concentration-Mass Relation of Galaxy Clusters
• CLASH: Joint Analysis of Strong-Lensing, Weak-Lensing Shear and Magnification Data for 20 Galaxy Clusters
• Nonlocal gravity. Conceptual aspects and cosmological predictions
• Classical properties of non-local, ghost- and singularity-free gravity
• The MUSIC of CLASH: predictions on the concentration-mass relation
• Is the Jeffreys' scale a reliable tool for Bayesian model comparison in cosmology?
• No further gravitational wave modes in $F(T)$ gravity
• Cluster-galaxy weak lensing
• Phantom dark energy from non-local infrared modifications of General Relativity
• Reconstructing the Distortion Function for Nonlocal Cosmology
• Halo Profiles and the Concentration-Mass Relation for a ΛCDM Universe
• Generalised Quadratic Curvature, Non-Local Infrared Modifications of Gravity and Newtonian Potentials
• Translation of Einstein's Attempt of a Unified Field Theory with Teleparallelism
• Effective Nonlocal Euclidean Gravity
• Observational Viability and Stability of Nonlocal Cosmology
• Inflation in (Super-)renormalizable Gravity
• Non-Local Gravity Cosmology: an Overview
• Noether Symmetries as a geometric criterion to select theories of gravity
• Constraining Generalized Non-local Cosmology from Noether Symmetries
• Non-local gravity and comparison with observational datasets. II. Updated results and Bayesian model comparison with $\Lambda$CDM
• Noether symmetries and stability of ideal gas solution in Galileon Cosmology
• Testing nonlocal gravity with Lunar Laser Ranging
• Aspects of Nonlocality in Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Gravity and Cosmology
• Cosmological perturbations and observational constraints on nonlocal massive gravity
• New Exact Spherically Symmetric Solutions in $f(R,\varphi ,X)$ gravity by Noether's symmetry approach
• Considerations on gravitational waves in higher-order local and non-local gravity
• Constraining Non-local Gravity by S2 star orbits
• Scalar-tensor representation of $f(R)$ gravity and Birkhoff's theorem
• Gravitational waves in non-local gravity
• Estimating the Parameters of Extended Gravity Theories with the Schwarzschild Precession of S2 Star
• Structure formation in the Deser-Woodard nonlocal gravity model: a reappraisal
• Revival of the Deser-Woodard nonlocal gravity model: Comparison of the original nonlocal form and a localized formulation
• Breaking the Vainshtein screening in clusters of galaxies
• Observational Constraints in Nonlocal Gravity: the Deser-Woodard Case
• Non-Local Curvature Gravity Cosmology via Noether Symmetries
• No need for dark matter in galaxy clusters within Galileon theory
• Multi-component DHOST analysis in galaxy clusters

Cited by in corpus (13)

• Non-Local Gravity Wormholes
• Addressing Cosmological Tensions by Non-Local Gravity
• Can nonlocal gravity really explain dark energy?
• Apparent dark matter as a non-local manifestation of emergent gravity
• Cosmic voids and the kinetic analysis
• Cosmic voids and the kinetic analysis. III. Hubble tension and structure formation in the late Universe
• Structure Formation in Non-local Bouncing Models
• Cosmic voids and the kinetic analysis. II. Link to Hubble tension
• Cosmic voids and the kinetic analysis. IV. Hubble tension and the cosmological constant
• Local Limit of Nonlocal Gravity: Cosmological Perturbations
• Testing non-local gravity through Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies kinematics
• A Relativistic Tensorial Model for Fractional Interaction between Dark Matter and Gravity
• Uncertainty Principles and Non-local Black Holes