A critical-density closed Universe in Brans-Dicke theory
Astrophysics
2009-10-31 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
In a Brans-Dicke (BD) cosmological model, the energy density associated with some scalar field decreases as \displaystyle a^{{-2}(\frac{\omega_{o}+ {\frac12}%}{\omega_{o}+1})} with the scale factor of the Universe, giving a matter with an Equation of state . In this model, the Universe could be closed but still have a nonrelativistic-matter density corresponding to its critical value, . Different cosmological expressions, such as, luminosity distance, angular diameter, number count and ratio of the redshift tickness-angular size, are determined in terms of the redshift for this model.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0005002,
title = {A critical-density closed Universe in Brans-Dicke theory},
author = {S. del Campo and N. Cruz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0005002},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
To appear in MNRAS, 7 pages, 5 eps figures