Mapping Luminosity-Redshift Relationship to LTB Cosmology
Astrophysics
2008-12-18 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We derive a direct general map from the luminosity distance D(z) to the inhomogeneous matter distribution M(r) in the Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi (LTB) cosmology and compute several examples. One of our examples explicitly demonstrates that it is possible to tune the LTB cosmological solution to approximately reproduce the luminosity distance curve of a flat FRW universe with a cosmological constant. We also discuss how smooth matter distributions can evolve into naked singularities due to shell crossing when the inhomogeneous ``spatial curvature'' E(r) is a function which changes sign.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0608403,
title = {Mapping Luminosity-Redshift Relationship to LTB Cosmology},
author = {Daniel J. H. Chung and Antonio Enea Romano},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0608403},
year = {2008}
}
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15 pages, 6 figures, RevTeX format