The observational status of Galileon gravity after Planck

Jun 2, 2014
25 pages
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  • JCAP 08 (2014) 059
  • Published: 2014
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Abstract: (IOP)
We use the latest CMB data from Planck, together with BAO measurements, to constrain the full parameter space of Galileon gravity. We constrain separately the three main branches of the theory known as the Cubic, Quartic and Quintic models, and find that all yield a very good fit to these data. Unlike in ΛCDM, the Galileon model constraints are compatible with local determinations of the Hubble parameter and predict nonzero neutrino masses at over 5σ significance. We also identify that the low l part of the CMB lensing spectrum may be able to distinguish between ΛCDM and Galileon models. In the Cubic model, the lensing potential deepens at late times on sub-horizon scales, which is at odds with the current observational suggestion of a positive ISW effect. Compared to ΛCDM, the Quartic and Quintic models predict less ISW power in the low l region of the CMB temperature spectrum, and as such are slightly preferred by the Planck data. We illustrate that residual local modifications to gravity in the Quartic and Quintic models may render the Cubic model as the only branch of Galileon gravity that passes Solar System tests.
Note:
  • 25 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables. Comments welcomed; v2 contains an extra appendix discussing the role of tensor perturbations
  • modified gravity
  • neutrino masses from cosmology
  • cosmological parameters from CMBR
  • dark energy theory
  • neutrino: mass
  • gravitation: model
  • cosmic background radiation: temperature
  • Galileon
  • Planck
  • cosmological model: parameter space
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