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The Effects of Inhomogeneities on Evaluating the Deceleration Parameter q$_0$

Astrophysics 2009-10-28 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Analytic expressions for distance-redshift relations which have been corrected for the effects of some inhomogeneities in the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) mass density are used to illustrate the significance of inhomogeneities on a determination of q0q_0 made by using Type Ia supernovae. The value of q0q_0 inferred from a given set of observations depends on the fractional amount of matter in inhomogeneities and is up to 50 percent larger than that obtained by using the standard Mattig mm-zz result for pure dust FRW models.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9511108,
  title  = {The Effects of Inhomogeneities on Evaluating the Deceleration Parameter q$_0$},
  author = {R. Kantowski and T. Vaughan and D. Branch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9511108},
  year   = {2009}
}

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16 pages, 7 figures in separate uuencoded file