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Title: Constraining Chameleon screening using galaxy cluster dynamics

Abstract: We constrain the Chameleon \textit{screening} mechanism in galaxy clusters, essentially obtaining limits on the coupling strength $\beta$ and the asymptotic value of the field $\phi_{\infty}$. For this purpose, we utilized a collection of the 9 relaxed galaxy clusters within the X-COP compilation in the redshift range of $z \le 0.1$. We implement the formalism assuming an NFW mass profile for the dark matter density and study the degeneracy present between the mass $\M$ and the chameleon coupling with a high degree of improvement in the constraints for excluded parameter space. We recast our constrain to an upper limit on the scalaron field in \fofr sub-class of models of $|f_{R0}|\le 9.2\times 10^{-6}$, using all the nine clusters and $|f_{R0}|\le 1.2\times 10^{-5}$ using only 5 clusters with WL priors taken into account, at a $95\%$ confidence level. These bounds are consistent with existing limits in the literature and tighter than the constraints obtained with the same method by previous studies.
Comments: Comments are welcome
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.108.044007
Cite as: arXiv:2303.02074 [astro-ph.CO]
  (or arXiv:2303.02074v1 [astro-ph.CO] for this version)

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From: Balakrishna Sandeep Haridasu [view email]
[v1] Fri, 3 Mar 2023 16:44:44 GMT (2777kb,D)

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