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Phys. Rev. D 75, 083521 (2007) [7 pages]

Constraining the variation of G by cosmic microwave background anisotropies

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K. C. Chan* and M.-C. Chu
Department of Physics and Institute of Theoretical Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, People’s Republic of China

Received 28 November 2006; published 18 April 2007

We use the Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies (CMBA) power spectra to constrain the cosmological variation of gravitational constant G. It is found that the sensitivity of CMBA to the variation of G is enhanced when G is required to converge to its present value. The variations of G from the CMB decoupling epoch z∼1000 to the present time are modeled by a step function and a linear function of scale factor a respectively, and the corresponding 95% confidence intervals for G/G0 are [0.95, 1.05] and [0.89, 1.13], G0 being the present value. The CMBA constraint is unique in the sense that it entails the range of redshift from z≈1000 to 0.

© 2007 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.75.083521
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.75.083521
PACS:
06.20.Jr, 98.70.Vc, 98.80.Cq

*Electronic address: kcchan@phy.cuhk.edu.hk

Electronic address: mcchu@phy.cuhk.edu.hk