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most citedObservational constraints on Starobinsky cosmology from cosmic expansion and structure growth data

29 citations · 48 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

gr-qc2026

Matter density perturbations in Quadratic Gravity

Pedro Bessa

We investigate linear matter-density perturbations in full quadratic gravity. Working in the longitudinal gauge and adopting the sub-horizon and quasi-static approximations, we obt…

astro-ph.CO2026

SLSim: a strong lensing population simulation package

Narayan Khadka, Simon Birrer, Henry Best +45

Gravitational lensing offers unique insights into cosmology by bending light around massive objects. Strong gravitational lensing, in particular, produces magnified and often multi…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 7 cited

Perturbations of Cosmological Redshift Drift

Pedro Bessa, Ruth Durrer, Dennis Stock

In this paper we calculate the linear perturbations of the cosmological redshift drift. We show explicitly that our expressions are gauge-invariant and compute the power spectrum o…

gr-qc2023★ 7 cited

Strong Gravitational Lensing in Horndeski theory

Pedro Bessa

In this paper we build the general formalism of gravitational lensing in luminal Horndeski theories, deriving the Jacobi matrix equation and the general angular diameter distance i…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 5 cited

Gravitational lensing in a universe with matter and a cosmological constant

Pedro Bessa, Oliver F. Piattella

We extend the results obtained in \cite{Piattella_2016, mcvittie_2015} and \cite{Park_2008} for gravitational lensing in the McVittie metric by including the effect of the transiti…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 29 cited

Observational constraints on Starobinsky cosmology from cosmic expansion and structure growth data

Pedro Bessa, Marcela Campista, Armando Bernui

The unknown physical nature of the Dark Energy motivates in cosmology the study of modifications of the gravity theory at large distances. One of these types of modifications is to…