Astrophysics > Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics Title: Large-Scale Structure with Gravitational Waves I: Galaxy Clustering (Submitted on 7 May 2012) Abstract: Observed angular positions and redshifts of large-scale structure tracers such as galaxies are affected by gravitational waves through volume distortion and magnification effects.
Authors: Lado Samushia,Beth A. Reid,Martin White,Will J. Percival,Antonio J. Cuesta,Lucas Lombriser,Marc Manera,Robert C. Nichol,Donald P. Schneider,Dmitry Bizyaev,Howard Brewington,Elena Malanushenko,Viktor Malanushenko,Daniel Oravetz,Kaike Pan,Audrey Simmons,Alaina Shelden,Stephanie Snedden,Jeremy L. Tinker,Benjamin A. Weaver,Donald G.
"Observations of lensing of the 21-cm background from the dark ages will be capable of detecting M>~10^12 Msun/h mass halos, but will require futuristic experiments to overcome the contaminating sources."
Combining galaxy distribution / clustering measurements with weak lensing shear measurements is a hot topic at the moment and this is the latest attempt to use both to reconstruct the COSMOS density field.
Very nice. I'm a little surprised that it's the first detection - I swear some people working on this a few years ago. But maybe their detection wasn't significant enough. At least, they didn't get a Nature paper out of it!
There are a number of `screening' mechanisms that are designed to suppress the effects of modified gravity below cluster scales. What are the characteristic radii at which this switch-off occurs in the different mechanisms?