Testing a generalized cubic Galileon gravity model with the Coma Cluster
Abstract
We obtain a constraint on the parameters of a generalized cubic Galileon gravity model exhibiting the Vainshtein mechanism by using multi-wavelength observations of the Coma Cluster. The generalized cubic Galileon model is characterized by three parameters of the turning scale associated with the Vainshtein mechanism, and the amplitude of modifying a gravitational potential and a lensing potential. X-ray and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) observations of the intra-cluster medium are sensitive to the gravitational potential, while the weak-lensing (WL) measurement is specified by the lensing potential. A joint fit of a complementary multi-wavelength dataset of X-ray, SZ and WL measurements enables us to simultaneously constrain these three parameters of the generalized cubic Galileon model for the first time. We also find a degeneracy between the cluster mass parameters and the gravitational modification parameters, which is influential in the limit of the weak screening of the fifth force.
- Publication:
-
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
- Pub Date:
- October 2015
- DOI:
- 10.1088/1475-7516/2015/10/064
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1505.03692
- Bibcode:
- 2015JCAP...10..064T
- Keywords:
-
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 24 page, 7 figures, version accepted for publication in JCAP