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Testing General Relativity using the Environmental Dependence of Dark Matter Halos

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In this Letter, we investigate the environmental dependence of dark matter halos in theories that attempt to explain the accelerated expansion of the Universe by modifying general relativity (GR). Using high-resolution N-body simulations in f(R) gravity models which recover GR in dense environments by virtue of the chameleon mechanism, we find a strong environmentally-dependent difference between the lensing mass and dynamical mass estimates of dark matter halos. This environmental dependence of the halo properties can be used as a smoking gun to test GR observationally.

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