Articulo
Testing modified gravity using a marked correlation function
Fecha
2018Registro en:
1150300
WOS:000441282300057
Institución
Resumen
In theories of modified gravity with the chameleon screening mechanism, the strength of the fifth force depends on environment. This induces an environment dependence of structure formation, which differs from Lambda-cold-dark-matter (Lambda CDM). We show that these differences could be captured by the marked correlation function. With the galaxy correlation functions and number densities calibrated to match between f(R) and Lambda CDM models in simulations, we show that the marked correlation functions by using either the local galaxy number density or halo mass as the marks encode extra information, which can be used to test these theories. We discuss possible applications of these statistics in observations.