4.7 Article

A general framework to test gravity using galaxy clusters II: A universal model for the halo concentration in f(R) gravity

Journal

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 487, Issue 1, Pages 1410-1425

Publisher

OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz1389

Keywords

methods: numerical; galaxies: clusters: general; dark energy; cosmology: theory

Funding

  1. Durham Centre for Doctoral Training in Data Intensive Science - UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) [ST/P006744/1]
  2. Durham University
  3. European Research Council [ERC-StG-716532-PUNCA]
  4. STFC [ST/P000541/1, ST/L00075X/1, ST/R000832/1]
  5. BEIS capital funding via STFC capital grants [ST/K00042X/1, ST/P002293/1, ST/R002371/1, ST/S002502/1]
  6. STFC [ST/R002371/1, ST/M006948/1, ST/R001006/1, ST/P002293/1, ST/M007006/1, ST/M007065/1, ST/S002529/1, ST/S002502/1, ST/T001372/1, ST/R00689X/1, ST/K00042X/1, ST/L00075X/1, ST/R000832/1, ST/M007618/1, ST/R001049/1, ST/P000541/1, ST/M007073/1, ST/T001550/1, 1949176, ST/T001348/1, ST/T001569/1, ST/R001014/1] Funding Source: UKRI

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We present a novel fitting formula for the halo concentration enhancement in chameleon f(R) gravity relative to General Relativity (GR). The formula is derived by employing a large set of N-body simulations of the Hu-Sawicki f(R) model which cover a wide range of model and cosmological parameters, resolutions, and simulation box sizes. The complicated dependence of the concentration on halo mass M, redshift z, and the f(R) and cosmological parameters can be combined into a simpler form that depends only on a rescaled mass M/10(p2), with p(2) = 1.5 log(10) [vertical bar(f) over bar (R) (z)vertical bar/(1 + z)] + 21.64 and (f) over bar (R) (z) the background scalar field at z, irrespective of the f(R) model parameter. Our fitting formula can describe the concentration enhancement well for redshifts z <= 3, nearly seven orders of magnitude in M/10(p2) and five decades in halo mass. This is part of a series of works which aims to provide a general framework for self-consistent and unbiased tests of gravity using present and upcoming galaxy cluster surveys. The fitting formula, which is the first quantitative model for the concentration enhancement due to chameleon-type modified gravity, is an important part in this framework and will allow continuous exploration of the parameter space. It can also be used to model other statistics such as the matter power spectrum.

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