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Constraints on chameleon gravity from the measurement of the electrostatic stiffness of the M I C R O S C O P E mission accelerometers
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.103.064070 Bibcode: 2021PhRvD.103f4070P

Bergé, Joel; Pernot-Borràs, Martin; Uzan, Jean-Philippe +4 more

This article is dedicated to the use the MICROSCOPE mission's data to test chameleon theory of gravity. We take advantage of the technical sessions aimed to characterize the electrostatic stiffness of MICROSCOPE's instrument intrinsic to its capacitive measurement system. Any discrepancy between the expected and measured stiffness may result from …

2021 Physical Review D
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Constraining the Konoplya-Rezzolla-Zhidenko deformation parameters: Limits from supermassive black hole x-ray data
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.024058 Bibcode: 2021PhRvD.104b4058A

Tripathi, Ashutosh; Abdikamalov, Askar B.; Ayzenberg, Dimitry +2 more

X-ray reflection spectroscopy is a powerful technique for probing the nature of gravity around black holes in the so-called strong-field regime. One popular approach is to look at theory-agnostic deviations away from the Kerr solution, which is the only astrophysically relevant black hole solution within classical general relativity, in order to v…

2021 Physical Review D
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Assessing the potential of cluster edges as a standard ruler on constraining dark energy models
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.103.123538 Bibcode: 2021PhRvD.103l3538W

Wang, Deng

We assess comprehensively the potential of galaxy cluster edges as a standard ruler in measuring cosmological distances and probing exotic physics. Confronting five alternative cosmological models with cluster edges from the near-future Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument survey, we conclude that cluster edges can serve as a promising probe to co…

2021 Physical Review D
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