Distinguishing between ΛCDM and f(R) gravity models using halo ellipticity correlations in simulations
| Autor: | Yao-Tsung Chuang, Teppei Okumura, Masato Shirasaki |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 515:4464-4470 |
| ISSN: | 1365-2966 0035-8711 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/stac2029 |
| Popis: | There is a growing interest in utilizing intrinsic alignment (IA) of galaxy shapes as a geometric and dynamical probe of cosmology. In this paper we present the first measurements of IA in a modified gravity model using the gravitational shear-intrinsic ellipticity correlation (GI) and intrinsic ellipticity-ellipticity correlation (II) functions of dark-matter halos from $f(R)$ gravity simulations. By comparing them with the same statistics measured in $\Lambda$CDM simulations, we find that the IA statistics in different gravity models show distinguishable features, with a trend similar to the case of conventional galaxy clustering statistics. Thus, the GI and II correlations are found to be useful in distinguishing between the $\Lambda$CDM and $f(R)$ gravity models. More quantitatively, IA statistics enhance detectability of the imprint of $f(R)$ gravity on large scale structures by $\sim 40\%$ when combined with the conventional halo clustering in redshift space. We also find that the correlation between the axis ratio and orientation of halos becomes stronger in $f(R)$ gravity than that in $\Lambda$CDM. Our results demonstrate the usefulness of IA statistics as a probe of gravity beyond a consistency test of $\Lambda$CDM and general relativity. Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures, 1 table; Accepted for publication in MNRAS |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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