English

Non-comoving baryons and cold dark matter in cosmic voids

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2019-02-12 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We examine the fully relativistic evolution of cosmic voids constituted by baryons and cold dark matter (CDM), represented by two non-comoving dust sources in a Λ\LambdaCDM background. For this purpose, we consider numerical solutions of Einstein's field equations in a fluid-flow representation adapted to spherical symmetry and multiple components. We present a simple example that explores the frame-dependence of the local expansion and the Hubble flow for this mixture of two dusts, revealing that the relative velocity between the sources yields a significantly different evolution in comparison with that of the two sources in a common 4-velocity (which reduces to a Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi model). In particular, significant modifications arise for the density contrast depth and void size, as well as in the amplitude of the surrounding over-densities. We show that an adequate model of a frame-dependent evolution that incorporates initial conditions from peculiar velocities and large-scale density contrast observations may contribute to understand the discrepancy between the local value of H0H_0 and that inferred from the CMB.

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@article{arxiv.1811.03634,
  title  = {Non-comoving baryons and cold dark matter in cosmic voids},
  author = {Ismael Delgado Gaspar and Juan Carlos Hidalgo and Roberto A. Sussman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.03634},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

Discussion of the evolution of baryon-CDM relative velocity added. Other minor but important corrections were incorporated. Version accepted for publication in EPJC