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Testing gravitational physics by combining DESI DR1 and weak lensing datasets using the E_G estimator

Rauhut, S. J. [Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC (Australia)]·Blake, Chris [Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC (Australia)]·Andrade, U. [Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)]·Noriega, H. E. [Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City (Mexico)]·Aguilar, J. [Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)]·Ahlen, S. [Boston Univ., MA (United States)]·BenZvi, S. [Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States)]·Bianchi, D. [Univ. degli Studi di Milano (Italy); Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Milano (Italy). Osservatorio Astrofisico di Brera]·Brooks, D. [Univ. College London (United Kingdom)]·Claybaugh, T. [Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)]·Cuceu, A. [Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)]·de la Macorra, A. [Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City (Mexico)]·DeRose, J. [Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)]·Doel, P. [Univ. College London (United Kingdom)]·Emas, N. [Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC (Australia)]·Ferraro, S. [Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)]·Forero-Romero, J. E. [Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá (Colombia)]·Garcia-Quintero, C. [Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA (United States)]·Gaztañaga, E. [Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC), Castelldefels (Spain); Univ. of Portsmouth (United Kingdom); Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Barcelona (Spain). Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC)]·Gutierrez, G. [Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)]·Heydenreich, S. [Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States)]·Honscheid, K. [The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States)]·Howlett, C. [Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD (Australia)]·Huterer, D. [Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)]·Ishak, M. [Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX (United States)]·Joudaki, S. [Research Centre for Energy, Environment and Technology (CIEMAT), Madrid (Spain)]·Joyce, R. [NSF NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ (United States)]·Jullo, E. [Aix-Marseille Univ., Marseille (France)]·Kehoe, R. [Southern Methodist Univ., Dallas, TX (United States)]·Kirkby, D. [Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)]·Kremin, A. [Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)]·Krolewski, A. [Univ. of Waterloo, ON (Canada)]·Lahav, O. [Univ. College London (United Kingdom)]·Lambert, A. [Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)]·Lamman, C. [Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA (United States)]·Landriau, M. [Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)]·Lange, J. U. [American University, Washington, DC (United States)]·Le Guillou, L. [Sorbonne Univ., Paris (France)]·Leauthaud, A. [Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States)]·Manera, M. [Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain); Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST) (Spain)]·Meisner, A. [NSF NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ (United States)]·Miquel, R. [Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST) (Spain); Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Barcelona (Spain)]·Nadathur, S. [Univ. of Portsmouth (United Kingdom)]·Newman, J. A. [Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA (United States). Pittsburgh Particle Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology Center (PITT PACC)]·Niz, G. [Universidad de Guanajuato (Mexico); Instituto Avanzado de Cosmología A. C., Mexico City (Mexico)]·Palanque-Delabrouille, N. [Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette (France)]·Percival, W. J. [Univ. of Waterloo, ON (Canada)]·Porredon, A. [The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States); Research Centre for Energy, Environment and Technology (CIEMAT), Madrid (Spain); Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland (United Kingdom); Ruhr Univ., Bochum (Germany)]·Prada, F. [Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC), Granada (Spain)]·Pérez-Ràfols, I. [Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona (Spain)]·Rossi, G. [Sejong Univ., Seoul (Korea, Republic of)]·Ruggeri, R. [Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD (Australia)]·Sanchez, E. [Research Centre for Energy, Environment and Technology (CIEMAT), Madrid (Spain)]·Saulder, C. [Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching (Germany)]·Schlegel, D. [Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)]·Semenaite, A. [Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC (Australia)]·Silber, J. [Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)]·Sprayberry, D. [NSF NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ (United States)]·Sun, Z. [Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (China)]·Tarlé, G. [Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)]·Weaver, B. A. [NSF NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ (United States)]·Zarrouk, P. [Sorbonne Univ., Paris (France)]·Zhou, R. [Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)]·Zou, H. [Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China). National Astronomical Observatories]
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Abstract

The action of gravitational physics across space-time creates observable signatures in the behaviour of light and matter. We perform combined-probe studies using data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) and Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument survey Data Release 1 (DESI-DR1), in combination with three existing weak lensing surveys, the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS), the Dark Energy Survey (DES), and the Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey (HSC), to test and constrain General Relativity (GR) in the context of the standard model of cosmology (LCDM). We focus on measuring the gravitational estimator statistic, E_G, which describes the relative amplitudes of weak gravitational lensing and galaxy velocities induced by a common set of overdensities. By comparing our amplitude measurements with their predicted scale- and redshift-dependence within the GR+LCDM model, we demonstrate that our results are consistent with the predictions of the Planck cosmology. The redshift span of the DESI dataset allows us to perform these E_G measurements at the highest redshifts achieved to date, z ~ 1.

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Rauhut, S. J. [Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC (Australia)], Blake, Chris [Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC (Australia)], Andrade, U. [Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)], Noriega, H. E. [Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City (Mexico)], Aguilar, J. [Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)], Ahlen, S. [Boston Univ., MA (United States)], BenZvi, S. [Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States)], Bianchi, D. [Univ. degli Studi di Milano (Italy); Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Milano (Italy). Osservatorio Astrofisico di Brera], Brooks, D. [Univ. College London (United Kingdom)], Claybaugh, T. [Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)], Cuceu, A. [Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)], de la Macorra, A. [Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City (Mexico)], DeRose, J. [Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)], Doel, P. [Univ. College London (United Kingdom)], Emas, N. [Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC (Australia)], Ferraro, S. [Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)], Forero-Romero, J. E. [Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá (Colombia)], Garcia-Quintero, C. [Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA (United States)], Gaztañaga, E. [Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC), Castelldefels (Spain); Univ. of Portsmouth (United Kingdom); Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Barcelona (Spain). Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC)], Gutierrez, G. [Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)], Heydenreich, S. [Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States)], Honscheid, K. [The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States)], Howlett, C. [Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD (Australia)], Huterer, D. [Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)], Ishak, M. [Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX (United States)], Joudaki, S. [Research Centre for Energy, Environment and Technology (CIEMAT), Madrid (Spain)], Joyce, R. [NSF NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ (United States)], Jullo, E. [Aix-Marseille Univ., Marseille (France)], Kehoe, R. [Southern Methodist Univ., Dallas, TX (United States)], Kirkby, D. [Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)], Kremin, A. [Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)], Krolewski, A. [Univ. of Waterloo, ON (Canada)], Lahav, O. [Univ. College London (United Kingdom)], Lambert, A. [Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)], Lamman, C. [Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA (United States)], Landriau, M. [Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)], Lange, J. U. [American University, Washington, DC (United States)], Le Guillou, L. [Sorbonne Univ., Paris (France)], Leauthaud, A. [Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States)], Manera, M. [Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain); Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST) (Spain)], Meisner, A. [NSF NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ (United States)], Miquel, R. [Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST) (Spain); Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Barcelona (Spain)], Nadathur, S. [Univ. of Portsmouth (United Kingdom)], Newman, J. A. [Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA (United States). Pittsburgh Particle Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology Center (PITT PACC)], Niz, G. [Universidad de Guanajuato (Mexico); Instituto Avanzado de Cosmología A. C., Mexico City (Mexico)], Palanque-Delabrouille, N. [Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette (France)], Percival, W. J. [Univ. of Waterloo, ON (Canada)], Porredon, A. [The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States); Research Centre for Energy, Environment and Technology (CIEMAT), Madrid (Spain); Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland (United Kingdom); Ruhr Univ., Bochum (Germany)], Prada, F. [Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC), Granada (Spain)], Pérez-Ràfols, I. [Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona (Spain)], Rossi, G. [Sejong Univ., Seoul (Korea, Republic of)], Ruggeri, R. [Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD (Australia)], Sanchez, E. [Research Centre for Energy, Environment and Technology (CIEMAT), Madrid (Spain)], Saulder, C. [Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching (Germany)], Schlegel, D. [Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)], Semenaite, A. [Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC (Australia)], Silber, J. [Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)], Sprayberry, D. [NSF NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ (United States)], Sun, Z. [Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (China)], Tarlé, G. [Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)], Weaver, B. A. [NSF NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ (United States)], Zarrouk, P. [Sorbonne Univ., Paris (France)], Zhou, R. [Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)], Zou, H. [Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China). National Astronomical Observatories]. 2025-10-06. Testing gravitational physics by combining DESI DR1 and weak lensing datasets using the E_G estimator. https://doi.org/10.33232/001c.145197

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