1. Stage-IV Cosmic Shear with Modified Gravity and Model-independent Screening
- Author
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Tsedrik, Maria, Bose, Benjamin, Carrilho, Pedro, Pourtsidou, Alkistis, Pamuk, Sefa, Casas, Santiago, and Lesgourgues, Julien
- Subjects
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics ,High Energy Physics - Theory - Abstract
We forecast constraints on minimal model-independent parametrisations of several Modified Gravity theories using mock Stage-IV cosmic shear data. We include nonlinear effects and screening, which ensures recovery of General Relativity on small scales. We introduce a power spectrum emulator to accelerate our analysis and evaluate the robustness of the growth index parametrisation with respect to two cosmologies: $\Lambda$CDM and the normal branch of the DGP model. We forecast the uncertainties on the growth index $\gamma$ to be of the order $\sim 10\%$. We find that our halo-model based screening approach demonstrates excellent performance, meeting the precision requirements of Stage-IV surveys. However, neglecting the screening transition results in biased predictions for cosmological parameters. We find that the screening transition shows significant degeneracy with baryonic feedback, requiring a much better understanding of baryonic physics for its detection. Massive neutrinos effects are less prominent and challenging to detect solely with cosmic shear data., Comment: 22 pages, 16 figures, 2 tables plus Appendices. Our power spectrum boost emulators for extended cosmologies are publicly available at https://github.com/nebblu/ReACT-emus/tree/main/emulators
- Published
- 2024