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Accessing the Acceleration of the Universe with Sunyaev-Zel'dovich and X-ray Data from Galaxy Clusters

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2016-11-15 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

By using exclusively the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect and X-ray surface brightness data from 25 galaxy clusters in the redshift range 0.023< z < 0.784 we access cosmic acceleration employing a kinematic description. Such result is fully independent on the validity of any metric gravity theory, the possible matter-energy contents filling the Universe, as well as on the SNe Ia Hubble diagram.

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@article{arxiv.1103.2688,
  title  = {Accessing the Acceleration of the Universe with Sunyaev-Zel'dovich and X-ray Data from Galaxy Clusters},
  author = {R. F. L. Holanda and J. A. S. Lima and J. V. Cunha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.2688},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

3 pages, 4 figures, To appear in the Proceedings of the Twelfth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity