Can the angular scale of cosmic homogeneity be used as a cosmological test?
Abstract
In standard cosmology, the cosmic homogeneity scale is the transition scale above which the patterns arising from non-uniformities -- such as groups and clusters of galaxies, voids, and filaments -- become indistinguishable from a random distribution of sources. Recently, different groups have investigated the feasibility of using such a scale as a cosmological test and arrived at different conclusions. In this paper, we complement and extend these studies by exploring the evolution of the spatial () and angular () homogeneity scales with redshift, assuming a spatially flat, -Cold Dark Matter %(CDM) universe and linear cosmological perturbation theory. We confirm previous results concerning the non-monotonicity of with the matter density parameter but also show that it exhibits a monotonical behavior with the Hubble constant within a large redshift interval. More importantly, we find that, for , the angular homogeneity scale not only presents a monotonical behavior with and but is quite sensitive to , especially at higher redshifts. These results, therefore, raise the possibility of using as a new, model-independent way to constrain cosmological parameters.
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@article{arxiv.2309.07263,
title = {Can the angular scale of cosmic homogeneity be used as a cosmological test?},
author = {Xiaoyun Shao and Rodrigo S. Gonçalves and Carlos A. P. Bengaly and Uendert Andrade and Gabriela C. Carvalho and Jailson Alcaniz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.07263},
year = {2025}
}
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10 pages, 24 figures