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A Consistent Test of the Distance-Duality Relation with Galaxy Clusters and Type Ia Supernave

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2017-03-08 v3

Abstract

We propose a new consistent method to test of the distance-duality (DD) relation which related angular diameter distances (DA) to the luminosity distances (DL) in a cosmology-independent way. In order to avoid any bias brought by redshift incoincidence between galaxy clusters and Type Ia Supernave (SNe Ia), as well as to ensure the integrity of the galaxy clusters samples, we obtain the luminosity distance of a certain SN Ia point at the same redshift of the corresponding galaxy cluster by interpolating from the nearby SNe Ia. With the observational data at the same redshifts of the angular diameter distances from the complete 38 galaxy cluster sample for the spherical model and the corrected luminosity distances interpolated from the Union2 set, we find that ηDL(1+z)2/DA=1\eta \equiv {D_L}{(1+z)}^{-2}/{D_A}=1 is satisfied within 2σ2\sigma confidence level for various parameterizations of η(z)\eta(z), which are more stringent than previous testing results without considering redshift bias.

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@article{arxiv.1104.2497,
  title  = {A Consistent Test of the Distance-Duality Relation with Galaxy Clusters and Type Ia Supernave},
  author = {Nan Liang and Zhengxiang Li and Puxun Wu and Shuo Cao and Kai Liao and Zong-Hong Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.2497},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

7 pages, 5 figures, 1 table; accepted for publication in MNRAS