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Testing the Strong Equivalence Principle. II. Relating the External Field Effect in Galaxy Rotation Curves to the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe
Kyu-Hyun Chae, Harry Desmond, Federico Lelli +2
Theories of modified gravity generically violate the strong equivalence principle, so that the internal dynamics of a self-gravitating system in free fall depends on the strength o…
Catalogues of voids as antihalos in the local Universe
Harry Desmond, Maxwell L. Hutt, Julien Devriendt +1
A recently-proposed algorithm identifies voids in simulations as the regions associated with halos when the initial overdensity field is negated. We apply this method to the real U…
Constraints on quantum gravity and the photon mass from gamma ray bursts
Deaglan J. Bartlett, Harry Desmond, Pedro G. Ferreira +1
Lorentz invariance violation in quantum gravity (QG) models or a nonzero photon mass, , would lead to an energy-dependent propagation speed for photons, such that photons of d…
Constraints on Equivalence Principle Violation from Gamma Ray Bursts
Deaglan J. Bartlett, Dexter Bergsdal, Harry Desmond +2
Theories of gravity that obey the Weak Equivalence Principle have the same Parametrised Post-Newtonian parameter for all particles at all energies. The large Shapiro time delay…
Calibrating galaxy formation effects in galactic tests of fundamental physics
Deaglan J. Bartlett, Harry Desmond, Pedro G. Ferreira
Galactic scale tests have proven to be powerful tools in constraining fundamental physics in previously under-explored regions of parameter space. The astrophysical regime which th…
A 5% measurement of the gravitational constant in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Harry Desmond, Jeremy Sakstein, Bhuvnesh Jain
We perform a novel test of General Relativity by measuring the gravitational constant in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The LMC contains six well-studied Cepheid variable stars…
The dependence of subhalo abundance matching on galaxy photometry and selection criteria
Richard Stiskalek, Harry Desmond, Thomas Holvey +1
Subhalo abundance matching (SHAM) is a popular technique for assigning galaxy mass or luminosity to haloes produced in N-body simulations. The method works by matching the cumulati…