Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-01-06
Phys.Rev.Lett.106:201102,2011
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
4 pages, 2 figures; v2: significant revision; improved results. v3: typos corrected, some minor revisions. Version to appear i
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.201102
The mystery of dark energy suggests that there is new gravitational physics on long length scales. Yet light degrees of freedom in gravity are strictly limited by Solar System observations. We can resolve this apparent contradiction by adding a Galilean-invariant scalar field to gravity. Called Galileons, these scalars have strong self-interactions near overdensities, like the Solar System, that suppress their dynamical effect. These nonlinearities are weak on cosmological scales, permitting new physics to operate. In this Letter, we point out that a massive gravity inspired coupling of Galileons to stress energy gravity can have a surprising consequence: enhanced gravitational lensing. Because the enhancement appears at a fixed scaled location for a wide range of dark matter halo masses, stacked cluster analysis of weak lensing data should be able to detect or constrain this effect.
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