Testing gravity with relativistic effects in large-scale structure

Higgs Centre colloquium

Testing gravity with relativistic effects in large-scale structure

  • Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
  • Event date: 4th February 2022
  • Speaker: Camille Bonvin (University of Geneva)

Event details

The distribution of galaxies is a power tool to test our cosmological model. In this talk I will discuss the different contributions that affect the observed distribution of galaxies. I will show that besides the standard density and redshift-space distortions, the number counts of galaxies is affected by gravitational lensing and relativistic effects. I will then discuss how one of these effects, called gravitational redshift, can be used to build new tests of gravity.

Passcode: higgs_20

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