Published January 1, 2019 | Version v1
Journal article

No Slip CMB

  • 1. Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics and Berkeley Lab, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 (United States)

Description

No Slip Gravity is a simple modified gravity theory with only one free function and the interesting characteristic that— unlike many modified gravity theories—it suppresses growth. This allows it to fit current redshift space distortion and σ8 mass fluctuation amplitude data better than ΛCDM in general relativity, while retaining a ΛCDM background expansion and hence distances. Since it has no gravitational slip it alters equally CMB lensing and matter density growth, and in addition affects the CMB gravitational wave B-mode polarization power spectrum. We investigate and compute the effects of No Slip Gravity for CMB lensing and B-modes, and present a simple analytic approximation. Using a Monte Carlo analysis, we place constraints on the theory from current CMB data.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2019/01/029

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Journal Volume
2019
Journal Issue
01
Journal Page Range
p. 029
ISSN
1475-7516

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
51062176
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Descriptors DEI
DENSITY; DISTANCE; GENERAL RELATIVITY THEORY; GRAVITATION; GRAVITATIONAL WAVES; LIMITING VALUES; MASS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; POLARIZATION; RED SHIFT; SLIP; SPACE; SPECTRA
Descriptors DEC
CALCULATION METHODS; FIELD THEORIES; MATTER; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; RELATIVITY THEORY