Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-05-07
Phys.Rev.D80:063536,2009
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
11 pages, 5 figures, 9 tables; replaced Hubble constant from HST Key Project with measurement from SHOES
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.80.063536
We perform a Markov Chain Monte Carlo analysis of the self-accelerating and normal branch of Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati braneworld gravity. By adopting a parameterized post-Friedmann description of gravity, we utilize all of the cosmic microwave background data, including the largest scales, and its correlation with galaxies in addition to the geometrical constraints from supernovae distances and the Hubble constant. We find that on both branches brane tension or a cosmological constant is required at high significance with no evidence for the unique Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati modifications. The cross-over scale must therefore be substantially greater than the Hubble scale H_0 r_c > 3 and 3.5 at the 95% CL with and without uncertainties from spatial curvature. With spatial curvature, the limit from the normal branch is substantially assisted by the galaxy cross-correlation which highlights its importance in constraining infrared modifications to gravity.
Fang Wenjuan
Hu Wayne
Lombriser Lucas
Seljak Uros
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