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Phys. Rev. D 77, 103513 (2008) [12 pages]

Large scale structure as a probe of gravitational slip

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Scott F. Daniel1,*, Robert R. Caldwell1, Asantha Cooray2, and Alessandro Melchiorri3
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA
2Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA
3Physics Department and Sezione INFN, University of Rome, “La Sapienza,” P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy

Received 7 February 2008; published 15 May 2008

A new time-dependent, scale-independent parameter, ϖ, is employed in a phenomenological model of the deviation from general relativity in which the Newtonian and longitudinal gravitational potentials slip apart on cosmological scales as dark energy, assumed to be arising from a new theory of gravitation, appears to dominate the Universe. A comparison is presented between ϖ and other parametrized post-Friedmannian models in the literature. The effect of ϖ on the cosmic microwave background anisotropy spectrum, the growth of large-scale structure, the galaxy weak-lensing correlation function, and cross correlations of cosmic microwave background anisotropy with galaxy clustering are illustrated. Cosmological models with conventional maximum likelihood parameters are shown to find agreement with a narrow range of gravitational slip.

© 2008 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.77.103513
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.103513
PACS:
98.80.Es, 04.50.Kd, 98.65.Dx

*scott.f.daniel@dartmouth.edu