Non-linear Evolution of Matter Power Spectrum in Modified Theory of Gravity

Details Non-linear Evolution of Matter Power Spectrum in Modified Theory of Gravity Non-linear Evolution of Matter Power Spectrum in Modified Theory of Gravity

2009-02-04

arxiv.org/abs/0902.0618v3

Phys.Rev.D79:123512,2009

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

25 pages, 8 figures, comparison to N-body simulations in DGP added, published in PRD

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.79.123512

We present a formalism to calculate the non-linear matter power spectrum in modified gravity models that explain the late-time acceleration of the Universe without dark energy. Any successful modified gravity models should contain a mechanism to recover General Relativity (GR) on small scales in order to avoid the stringent constrains on deviations from GR at solar system scales. Based on our formalism, the quasi non-linear power spectrum in the Dvali-Gabadadze-Porratti (DGP) braneworld models and $f(R)$ gravity models are derived by taking into account the mechanism to recover GR properly. We also extrapolate our predictions to fully non-linear scales using the Parametrized Post Friedmann (PPF) framework. In $f(R)$ gravity models, the predicted non-linear power spectrum is shown to reproduce N-body results. We find that the mechanism to recover GR suppresses the difference between the modified gravity models and dark energy models with the same expansion history, but the difference remains large at weakly non-linear regime in these models. Our formalism is applicable to a wide variety of modified gravity models and it is ready to use once consistent models for modified gravity are developed.

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