Speaker
Dr
Lucas Lombriser
(University of Edinburgh)
Description
Scalar-tensor modifications of gravity have long been considered as an alternative explanation for the late-time accelerated expansion of our Universe. I will first show that a rigorous discrimination between acceleration from modified gravity and from a cosmological constant or dark energy is not possible with observations of the large-scale structure alone. I will then demonstrate how gravitational-wave observations break this dark degeneracy and how the combination of the two challenges the concept of cosmic acceleration from a genuine scalar-tensor modification of gravity.
Primary author
Dr
Lucas Lombriser
(University of Edinburgh)
