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Cosmological constraints on the Hu-Sawicki modified gravity scenario

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
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  1. Dipartimento di Fisica and Sezione INFN, Universita' di Roma 'La Sapienza', Ple Aldo Moro 2, 00185 (Italy)

In this paper we place new constraints on a f(R) modified gravity model recently proposed by Hu and Sawicki (HS). After checking that the HS model produces a viable cosmology, i.e. a matter dominated epoch followed by a late-time acceleration, we constrain some of its parameters by using recent observations from the UNION compilation of luminosity distances of Supernovae type Ia, including complementary information from baryonic acoustic oscillations, Hubble expansion, and age data. We found that the data considered is unable to place significant constraints on the model parameters and we discuss the impact of a different assumption of the background model in cosmic parameters inference.

OSTI ID:
21300947
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Journal Name: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields Journal Issue: 12 Vol. 79; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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