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Vector and Tensor Contributions to the Luminosity Distance

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2012-07-24 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We compute the vector and tensor contributions to the luminosity distance fluctuations in first order perturbation theory and we expand them in spherical harmonics. This work presents the formalism with a first application to a stochastic background of primordial gravitational waves.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1205.3366,
  title  = {Vector and Tensor Contributions to the Luminosity Distance},
  author = {Enea Di Dio and Ruth Durrer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.3366},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

14 pages, 3 figures

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