CMB Tensor Anisotropies in f(R) Gravity

TL;DR

This paper investigates how tensor perturbations in $f(R)$ gravity theories influence CMB anisotropies, providing computational results for specific models using modified simulation tools.

Contribution

It offers a detailed description of CMB tensor anisotropies in $f(R)$ gravity and computes power spectra for $f(R)=R^n$ models with a modified CAMB code.

Findings

Tensor perturbations affect CMB temperature and polarization spectra.

Power spectra for $f(R)=R^n$ models are computed.

Results help constrain $f(R)$ gravity models using CMB data.

Abstract

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) carries information from the last scattering surface that puts constraints on the multitude of proposed cosmological models and the gravitation theories they are based on. One class of such theories is $f(R)$ gravity, which has become an interesting endeavour to correct for the degeneracies of the concordance model. We presents a description of CMB anisotropies generated by tensor perturbations in $f(R)$ theories of gravity. The temperature and the $E$-mode polarisation power spectra in the special case of $f(R)=R^n$ are computed using a modified version of CAMB package.