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Group “Fundamental Interactions”

Cosmology The cosmology team includes researchers with expertise in Cosmology, General Relativity, Quantum Field Theory, and Particle Physics. They collaborate and share national and international grants with several groups of theorists, cosmologists, astronomers, astrophysicists, and particle physicists.

Over the past fifteen years, an avalanche of high-quality data has transformed cosmology into a field rich in results. It has become an ideal arena for testing and potentially falsifying predictions arising from several areas of fundamental physics. This abundance of information has recently enabled the discovery of unexpected phenomena such as the acceleration of the expansion of the universe and the detection of long-sought physical signals that had previously escaped observation, such as gravitational waves.

The core of our activities is organized around three main research directions:

  • Understanding the large-scale structure of the universe by studying the growth of structures in different regimes using statistical tools. Our objectives are to assess the contributions of the various forms of matter (ordinary and dark) to the processes of structure formation, and also to extract the values of the fundamental parameters of the cosmological model.
  • Revealing the nature of dark energy by studying the rich phenomenology of the accelerating universe. The goal is to refine our understanding both empirically—by testing the relevance of the standard description of gravity on large scales at the present time—and theoretically—by investigating which modified gravity models could generalize the current paradigm.
  • Assessing the consistency of the physical foundations of the cosmological model by testing certain fundamental assumptions made in data analysis, in order to guarantee the conceptual basis of the paradigm being used.

Team's directory

AGAPITO Alessandro

Ph.D.

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BEL Julien

Research teacher

+33.4.91.26.95.05

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BERA Sayantani

Post Ph.D.

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CINTIA Giordano

Post Ph.D.

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DE RENZIS Viola

Post Ph.D.

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HU Shiqian

Post Ph.D.

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KALBOUNEH Basheer

Post Ph.D.

+33.4.91.26.97.88

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MANCARELLA Michele

Research teacher

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MARINONI Christian

Research teacher

Team leader « Cosmology »

+33.4.91.26.95.35

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PEDROTTI Alessandro

Ph.D.

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PIAZZA Federico

Research teacher

+33.4.91.26.95.00

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RAMOS Samuel

Ph.D.

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SANTIAGO Jessica

Post Ph.D.

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SARMA Maharshi

Ph.D.

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TAXIL Pierre

Research teacher emeritus

+33.4.91.26.95.52

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VAREILLES Simeon

Ph.D.

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VIREY Jean-Marc

Research teacher

+33.4.91.26.95.48

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ZIANE Mehdi-Bara

Ph.D.

+33.4.91.26.97.79

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Team's publications

DEMNUni: comparing nonlinear power spectra prescriptions in the presence of massive neutrinos and dynamical dark energy

G. Parimbelli, C. Carbone, J. Bel, B. Bose, M. Calabrese, E. Carella, M. Zennaro

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2022, 11, pp.041. (10.1088/1475-7516/2022/11/041)

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Spherical symmetric inhomogeneities in cosmology: effects on redshift and distance

Romain Codur

Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO]. Aix Marseille Université (AMU), 2021. English. (NNT : )

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A new Monte Carlo approach for galaxy clustering analysis

Philippe Baratta

Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO]. Aix-Marseille Université; Physique et Sciences de la Matière (352), 2021. English. (NNT : )

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Redshift drift in radially inhomogeneous Lemaître-Tolman-Bondi spacetimes

R. Codur, C. Marinoni

Physical Review D, 2021, 104 (12), pp.123531. (10.1103/PhysRevD.104.123531)

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Testing gravity with the two-body problem

Adrien Kuntz

Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO]. Aix-Marseille Université (AMU), 2020. English. (NNT : )

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Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals with Scalar Hair

Adrien Kuntz, Riccardo Penco, Federico Piazza

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2020, 08, pp.023. (10.1088/1475-7516/2020/08/023)

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Half-solution to the two-body problem in General Relativity

Adrien Kuntz

Physical Review D, 2020, 102 (6), pp.064019. (10.1103/PhysRevD.102.064019)

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Effective field theory of dark energy: A review

Noemi Frusciante, Louis Perenon

Physics Reports, 2020, 857, pp.1-63. (10.1016/j.physrep.2020.02.004)

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High-precision Monte-Carlo modelling of galaxy distribution

Philippe Baratta, Julien Bel, Stephane Plaszczynski, Anne Ealet

Astronomy & Astrophysics - A&A, 2020, 633, pp.A26. (10.1051/0004-6361/201936163)

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Unveiling the Galileon in a three-body system : scalar and gravitational wave production

Philippe Brax, Lavinia Heisenberg, Adrien Kuntz

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2020, 05, pp.012. (10.1088/1475-7516/2020/05/012)

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