Date: February 28th 2019, 11am
Speaker: Clément Leloup (CEA Paris-Saclay, DPhP)
Title: Observational status of the Galileon model from cosmological data and gravitational waves [slides]
Room: Cassini
Abstract
The Galileon model is a tensor-scalar theory of gravity which offers a theoretically viable explanation to the late acceleration of the Universe expansion and recovers General Relativity in the strong field limit. The main goal is to establish the status of the model from cosmological observations. Though, the multi-messenger observation of GW170817 and its consequences for the Galileon model will be briefly discussed, since most allowed Galileon scenarios have a gravitational wave speed different than the speed of light.
Most constraints obtained so far on Galileon model parameters from cosmological data were derived for the limited subset of tracker solutions and reported tensions between the model and data. We present here an exploration of the general solution of the Galileon model, which is confronted against recent cosmological data.
We find that, while the general solution provides a good fit to CMB spectra, it fails to reproduce cosmological data when extending the comparison to BAO and SNIa data. Tensions remain if the models are extended with an additional free parameter, such as the sum of active neutrino masses or the normalization of the CMB lensing spectrum.
