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6 papers

gr-qc2026

Cosmology with a Non-minimally Coupled Dark Matter Fluid II. Cosmological Perturbations

Samuele Silveravalle, Andrea Lapi, Francesco Benetti +1

We extend our study of a cosmological scenario in which dark matter is non-minimally coupled to gravity at the fluid level. In previous work, we showed that this interaction can dr…

gr-qc2025

Cosmology with a Non-minimally Coupled Dark Matter Fluid I. Background Evolution

Samuele Silveravalle, Andrea Lapi, Francesco Benetti +1

We explore a cosmological model in which dark matter is non-minimally coupled to gravity at the fluid level. While typically subdominant compared to Standard Model forces, such cou…

astro-ph.CO2025

Outer regions of galaxy clusters as a new probe to test modifications to gravity

Minahil Adil Butt, Sandeep Haridasu, Antonaldo Diaferio +4

We apply the caustic technique to samples of galaxy clusters stacked in redshift space to estimate the gravitational potential in the cluster's outer region and test modifications…

gr-qc2024

A Relativistic Tensorial Model for Fractional Interaction between Dark Matter and Gravity

Francesco Benetti, Andrea Lapi, Samuele Silveravalle +5

In a series of recent papers it was shown that several aspects of Dark Matter (DM) phenomenology, such as the velocity profiles of individual dwarfs and spiral galaxies, the scalin…

astro-ph.CO2024

Modified gravity in galaxy clusters: Joint analysis of Hydrostatics and Caustics

Minahil Adil Butt, Sandeep Haridasu, Yacer Boumechta +4

We present a comprehensive joint analysis of two distinct methodologies for measuring the mass of galaxy clusters: hydrostatic measurements and caustic techniques. We show that by…

gr-qc2024

Ultra-compact Objects of Non-minimally Coupled Dark Matter

Francesco Benetti, Andrea Lapi, Samuele Silveravalle +1

In the framework of a collisionless dark matter fluid which is non-minimally coupled to gravity, we investigate the existence and properties of static, spherically symmetric soluti…