Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-9-2010
Publication Title
Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology
Department
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
Deviations from general relativity, such as could be responsible for the cosmic acceleration, would influence the growth of large-scale structure and the deflection of light by that structure. We clarify the relations between several different model-independent approaches to deviations from general relativity appearing in the literature, devising a translation table. We examine current constraints on such deviations, using weak gravitational lensing data of the CFHTLS and COSMOS surveys, cosmic microwave background radiation data of WMAP5, and supernova distance data of Union2. A Markov chain Monte Carlo likelihood analysis of the parameters over various redshift ranges yields consistency with general relativity at the 95% confidence level.
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.81.123508
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Daniel, Scott F.; Linder, Eric V.; Smith, Tristan L.; and Caldwell, Robert R., "Testing General Relativity with Current Cosmological Data" (2010). Dartmouth Scholarship. 1968.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/1968