English

New constraints on the distance duality relation from the local data

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2018-09-05 v1

Abstract

The cosmic distance duality relation (DDR), which connects the angular diameter distance and luminosity distance through a simple formula DA(z)(1+z)2/DL(z)1D_A(z)(1+z)^2/D_L(z)\equiv1, is an important relation in cosmology. Therefore, testing the validity of DDR is of great importance. In this paper, we test the possible violation of DDR using the available local data including type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), galaxy clusters and baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO). We write the modified DDR as DA(z)(1+z)2/DL(z)=η(z)D_A(z)(1+z)^2/D_L(z)=\eta(z), and consider two different parameterizations of η(z)\eta(z), namely η1(z)=1+η0z\eta_1(z)=1+\eta_0 z and η2(z)=1+η0z/(1+z)\eta_2(z)=1+\eta_0 z/(1+z). The luminosity distance from SNe Ia are compared with the angular diameter distance from galaxy clusters and BAO at the same redshift. Two different cluster data are used here, i.e. elliptical clusters and spherical clusters. The parameter η0\eta_0 is obtained using the Markov chain Monte Carlo methods. It is found that η0\eta_0 can be strictly constrained by the elliptical clusters + BAO data, with the best-fitting values η0=0.04±0.12\eta_0=-0.04\pm 0.12 and η0=0.05±0.22\eta_0=-0.05\pm 0.22 for the first and second parametrizations, respectively. However, the spherical clusters + BAO data couldn't strictly constrain η0\eta_0 due to the large intrinsic scatter. In any case studied here, no evidence for the violation of DDR is found.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1808.01784,
  title  = {New constraints on the distance duality relation from the local data},
  author = {Hai-Nan Lin and Ming-Hua Li and Xin Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.01784},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

6 pages, 6 figures, 2 table, accepted by MNRAS

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