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PIRSA:09100079

Testing General Relativity with Weak Gravitational Lensing

APA

Vanderveld, A. (2009). Testing General Relativity with Weak Gravitational Lensing. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/09100079

Ali Vanderveld Cornell University

Talk numberPIRSA:09100079
Talk Type Scientific Series
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Abstract

Weak gravitational lensing is a powerful probe of modifications of General Relativity on cosmological scales, since such modifications can affect both how matter produces gravitational potential wells and how photons move within these wells. I will discuss alternative theories of gravitation and how we may constrain such theories using weak lensing observables, including those that could be obtained with the balloon-borne High Altitude Lensing Observatory (HALO). I will also discuss the "parametrized-post-Friedmannian" approach for obtaining model-independent constraints, in which new parameters are introduced to characterize the departure from General Relativity on large scales.