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September 11, 2017 to October 6, 2017
Institut de Physique Théorique, CEA Saclay
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Lombriser: Challenges to Cosmic Self Acceleration in Modified Gravity from Gravitational Waves and Large-Scale Structure

Sep 26, 2017, 4:10 PM
25m
Institut de Physique Théorique, CEA Saclay

Institut de Physique Théorique, CEA Saclay

Orme des Merisiers batiment 774 Point courrier 136 CEA/DSM/IPhT, CEA/Saclay F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex FRANCE

Description

Scalar-tensor modifications of gravity have long been considered as an alternative explanation for the late-time accelerated expansion of our Universe. I will first show that a rigorous discrimination between acceleration from modified gravity and from a cosmological constant or dark energy is not possible with observations of the large-scale structure alone. I will then demonstrate how gravitational wave observations break this dark degeneracy and how the combination of the two challenges the concept of cosmic acceleration from a genuine scalar-tensor modification of gravity.

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