Ishak Mustapha
Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080 USA.
Living Rev Relativ. 2019;22(1):1. doi: 10.1007/s41114-018-0017-4. Epub 2018 Dec 18.
We review recent developments and results in testing general relativity (GR) at cosmological scales. The subject has witnessed rapid growth during the last two decades with the aim of addressing the question of cosmic acceleration and the dark energy associated with it. However, with the advent of precision cosmology, it has also become a well-motivated endeavor by itself to test gravitational physics at cosmic scales. We overview cosmological probes of gravity, formalisms and parameterizations for testing deviations from GR at cosmological scales, selected modified gravity (MG) theories, gravitational screening mechanisms, and computer codes developed for these tests. We then provide summaries of recent cosmological constraints on MG parameters and selected MG models. We supplement these cosmological constraints with a summary of implications from the recent binary neutron star merger event. Next, we summarize some results on MG parameter forecasts with and without astrophysical systematics that will dominate the uncertainties. The review aims at providing an overall picture of the subject and an entry point to students and researchers interested in joining the field. It can also serve as a quick reference to recent results and constraints on testing gravity at cosmological scales.
我们回顾了在宇宙学尺度上检验广义相对论(GR)的最新进展和成果。在过去二十年中,该领域发展迅速,旨在解决宇宙加速问题以及与之相关的暗能量问题。然而,随着精确宇宙学的出现,在宇宙尺度上检验引力物理学本身也成为了一项动机充分的工作。我们概述了引力的宇宙学探测方法、用于检验宇宙学尺度上与广义相对论偏差的形式体系和参数化方法、选定的修正引力(MG)理论、引力屏蔽机制以及为这些检验而开发的计算机代码。然后,我们总结了近期对MG参数和选定MG模型的宇宙学限制。我们用近期双中子星合并事件的影响总结来补充这些宇宙学限制。接下来,我们总结了有无天体物理系统误差情况下MG参数预测的一些结果,而天体物理系统误差将主导不确定性。本综述旨在全面介绍该主题,为有兴趣涉足该领域的学生和研究人员提供一个切入点。它也可作为近期在宇宙学尺度上检验引力的结果和限制的快速参考资料。