Gravity lens critical test for gravity constants and dark sector

V. Gurzadyan (Center for Cosmology and Astrophysics, Alikhanian National Laboratory and Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia; SIA, Sapienza Universita di Roma, Rome, Italy) ; A. Stepanian (Center for Cosmology and Astrophysics, Alikhanian National Laboratory and Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia)

The recent study of the strong gravitational lens ESO 325-G004 (Collett et al., Science, 360:1342, 2018) leads to a new possibility for testing General Relativity and its extensions. Such gravity lens observational studies can be instrumental for establishing a limitation on the precision of testing General Relativity in the weak-field regime and on the two gravity constants (the Newtonian and cosmological ones) as described in Gurzadyan and Stepanian (Eur Phys J C 78:632 2018). Namely, we predict a critical value for the involved weak-field parameter $$\gamma _{cr}=0.998$$ γcr=0.998 (for $$M=1.5\,\,10^{11}\, M_{\odot }$$ M=1.51011M lens mass and $$r=2\, kpc$$ r=2kpc light impact distance), which remarkably does not depend on any hypothetical variable but is determined only by well measured quantities. If the critical parameter $$\gamma _{cr}$$ γcr will be established at future observations, this will mark the first discrepancy with General Relativity of the conventional weak-field Newtonian limit, directly linked to the nature of the dark sector of the Universe.

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13 November 2018
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European Physical Journal C , Volume 78 (2018)
Issue 10
Pages 1-3
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6358-z
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