Tests of gravity with DES Year 3 weak lensing

Dates

2022-11-07 12:00
Dates
2022-11-07 13:00

Localisation / Location

APC

Salle / Local

APC646A

Orateur/Orator

Dr. Agnès Ferté

Affiliation

KIPAC / SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Pays / Country

CA / USA

Type d'évènement / Type of event

Equipe(s) organisatrice(s) / Organizing team(s)

The new weak lensing measurements from the first three years of observation by the Dark Energy Survey offer a unique opportunity to constrain deviations from General Relativity, our theory of gravity. Weak gravitational lensing is indeed a powerful probe of the growth of structures. As such it offers a window on the laws of gravity on cosmological scales. We thus used DES Year 3 weak lensing data to test the validity of General Relativity (GR) to a new regime, and explore modifications to GR as an alternative to dark energy. I will present the results of our analysis, the modeling choices and robust approach we adopted to reliably test gravity with these precise data. I will end by highlighting ongoing work in DES and the main challenges to solve in future galaxy surveys like LSST, Euclid and Roman.
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