Bologna 2007 of gravity Luca Amendola INAF/Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma The dark side
Bologna 2007 Observations are converging… …to an unexpected universe
Bologna 2007 The dark energy problem gravity matter Solution: modify either the Matter sector or the Gravity sector...but remember : DE MG
Bologna 2007 Modified matter Problem: All the matter particles we know possess an effective interaction range that is much smaller the cosmological ones the effective pressure is always positive ! Solution: add new forms of matter with strong interaction/self-interaction the effective pressure can be large and negative Dark Energy=scalar fields, generalized perfect fluids etc
Bologna 2007 Can we detect traces of modified gravity at background linear level ? non-linear { } Modified gravity
Bologna 2007 What is gravity ? A universal force in 4D mediated by a massless tensor field What is modified gravity ? What is modified gravity ? A non-universal force in nD mediated by (possibly massive) tensor, vector and scalar fields
Bologna 2007 Cosmology and modified gravity in laboratory in the solar system at astrophysical scales at cosmological scales } very limited time/space/energy scales; only baryons complicated by non-linear/non- gravitational effects unlimited scales; mostly linear processes; baryons, dark matter, dark energy !
Bologna 2007 L = crossover scale: 5D gravity dominates at low energy/late times/large scales 4D gravity recovered at high energy/early times/small scales 5D Minkowski bulk: infinite volume extra dimension gravity leakage brane Simplest MG (I): DGP (Dvali, Gabadadze, Porrati 2000)
Bologna 2007 f(R) models are simple and self-contained (no need of potentials) easy to produce acceleration (first inflationary model) high-energy corrections to gravity likely to introduce higher- order terms particular case of scalar-tensor and extra-dimensional theory eg higher order corrections Let’s start with one of the simplest MG model: f(R) Simplest MG (II): f(R)
Bologna 2007 f(R) is popular....
Bologna 2007 Is this already ruled out by local gravity? is a scalar-tensor theory with Brans-Dicke parameter ω=0 or a coupled dark energy model with coupling β=1/2 (on a local minimum) α λ
Bologna 2007 Dark Fog The trouble with f(R): it’s Fourth Order Gravity (FOG) ! Higher order equations introduce: new solutions (acceleration ?) new instabilities (is the universe stable?)
Bologna 2007 The simplest case In Einstein Frame Turner, Carroll, Capozziello etc. 2003
Bologna 2007 R-1/R model : the φ MDE R-1/R model : the φ MDE rad mat field rad mat field MDE today Caution: Plots in the Einstein frame! instead of !! In Jordan frame:
Bologna 2007 Sound horizon in R+R n model...and by the way L.A., D. Polarski, S. Tsujikawa, PRL 98, , astro-ph/
Bologna 2007 cl) WMAP and the coupling Planck: L.A., C. Quercellini et al. 2003
Bologna 2007 Classification of f(R) solutions deSitter acceleration, w = -1 General acceleration, any w For all f(R) theories, define the characteristic curve: The problem is: can we go from matter to acceleration? wrong matter era (t 1/2 ) good matter era (t 2/3 ) for m≥0
Bologna 2007 The m,r plane The dynamics becomes 1-dimensional ! The qualitative behavior of any f(R) model can be understood by looking at the geometrical properties of the m,r plot m(r) curve crit. line acceleration matter era deSitter L.A., D. Polarski, S. Tsujikawa, PRD, astro-ph/
Bologna 2007 The power of the m(r) method REJECTED
Bologna 2007 The triangle of viable trajectories There exist only two kinds of cosmologically viable trajectories Notice that in the triangle m>0
Bologna 2007 Constraints on viable trajectories Cosmological constraints Constraint from the matter expansion: CMB peak requires m(past)<0.1 Constraint from accelerated expansion: SN require m(present)<0.1
Bologna 2007 Viable trajectories are cool ! Viable trajectories have a very peculiar effective equation of state Define w DE implicitely as We find Theorem: diverges if grows in the past, i.e. if Corollary: all viable f(R) cosmologies possess a divergent L.A., S. Tsujikawa, 2007
Bologna 2007 Phantom crossing Conclusions: for all viable f(R) models there is a phantom crossing of there is a singularity of both occur typically at low z when phantom DE standard DE
Bologna 2007 Crossing/singularity as signatures of modified gravity The same phenomenon occurs for DGP (Alam et al 2005) Scalar,Vector, Tensor models (Libanov et al. 2007) and in the Riess et al. (2004) dataset !! Nesseris Perivolaropoulos 2005
Bologna but don’t forget the Local Gravity Constraints... However, if we apply naively the LGC at the present epoch.
Bologna 2007 relaxing the Local Gravity Constraints ? However, the mass depends on the local field configuration depending on the experiment: laboratory, solar system, galaxy see eg. Nojiri & Odintsov 2003; Brookfield et al Navarro & Van Acoyelen 2006; Faraoni 2006; Bean et al. 2006; Chiba et al. 2006; Hu, Sawicky 2007;....
Bologna 2007 LGC+Cosmology Take for instance the ΛCDM clone Applying the criteria of LGC and Cosmology i.e. ΛCDM to an incredible precision
Bologna 2007 However... perturbations
Bologna 2007 MG at the linear level At the linear perturbation level and sub-horizon scales, a modified gravity model will modify Poisson’s equation induce an anisotropic stress modify the growth of perturbations
Bologna 2007 MG at the linear level scalar-tensor models standard gravity DGP f(R) Lue et al. 2004; Koyama et al Bean et al Hu et al Tsujikawa 2007 coupled Gauss-Bonnet see L. A., C. Charmousis, S. Davis 2006 Boisseau et al Acquaviva et al Schimd et al. 2004
Bologna 2007 Observer Dark matter halos Background sources Radial distances depend on geometry of Universe Probing gravity with weak lensing Statistical measure of shear pattern, ~1% distortion Foreground mass distribution depends on growth/distribution of structure
Bologna 2007 Probing gravity with weak lensing In General Relativity, lensing is caused by the “lensing potential” and this is related to the matter perturbations via Poisson’s equation. Therefore the lensing signal depends on the two modified gravity functions and in the growth function in the WL power spectrum
Bologna 2007 Growth of fluctuations A good fit to the linear growth of fluctuations is where LCDM DE DGP ST we parametrize Instead of Peebles 1980 Lahav et al Wang et al Bernardeau et al L.A Linder 2006
Bologna 2007 Weak lensing measures Dark Gravity DGPPhenomenological DE Weak lensing tomography over half sky LCDM DGP L.A., M. Kunz, D. Sapone arXiv:
Bologna 2007 Weak lensing measures Dark Gravity scalar-tensor model Weak lensing tomography over half sky V. Acquaviva, L.A., C. Baccigalupi, in prep.
Bologna 2007 Weak lensing measures Dark Gravity Marginalizing over modified gravity parameters FOM
Bologna 2007 Non-linearity N-Body simulations Higher-order perturbation theory Maccio’ et al Jain et al Kamionkowski et al Gaztanaga et al Freese et al Makler et al Lue et al L.A. & C. Quercellini
Bologna 2007 N-body simulations in MG Two effects: DM mass is varying, G is different for baryons and DM mbmb mcmc Dark energy/dark matter coupling
Bologna 2007 N-body simulations A. Maccio’, L.A.,C. Quercellini, S. Bonometto, R. Mainini 2004 Λ β=0.15 β=0.25
Bologna 2007 N-body simulations β=0.15 β=0.25
Bologna 2007 N-body simulations: halo profiles β-dependent behaviour towards the halo center. Higher β: smaller r c
Bologna 2007 Conclusions: the teachings of DE There is much more than meets the eyes in the Universe Two solutions to the DE mismatch: either add “dark energy” or “dark gravity” The high precision data of present and near-future observations allow to test for dark energy/gravity It is crucial to combine background and perturbations Weak Lensing is a good bet...(to be continued)
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An ultra-light scalar field Abundance Mass L.A. & R. Barbieri 2005 Adopting a PNGB potential Hubble size Galactic size
Bologna 2007 Dark energy as scalar gravity Einstein frame Jordan frame
Bologna 2007 An extra gravity Newtonian limit: the scalar interaction generates an attractive extra-gravity Yukawa term in real space
Bologna 2007 Understanding dark energy Let him who seeks continue seeking until he finds. When he finds, he will become troubled. When he becomes troubled, he will be astonished Coptic Gospel of Thomas
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An ultra-light scalar field Abundance Mass L.A. & R. Barbieri 2005 Adopting a PGB potential Hubble size Galactic size