Cosmic distance duality and cosmic transparency
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
2015-06-11 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We compare distance measurements obtained from two distance indicators, Super- novae observations (standard candles) and Baryon acoustic oscillation data (standard rulers). The Union2 sample of supernovae with BAO data from SDSS, 6dFGS and the latest BOSS and WiggleZ surveys is used in search for deviations from the distance duality relation. We find that the supernovae are brighter than expected from BAO measurements. The luminosity distances tend to be smaller then expected from angular diameter distance estimates as also found in earlier works on distance duality, but the trend is not statistically significant. This further constrains the cosmic transparency.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1210.2642,
title = {Cosmic distance duality and cosmic transparency},
author = {Remya Nair and Sanjay Jhingan and Deepak Jain},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.2642},
year = {2015}
}
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14 pages, 6 pdf figures