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We perform a cosmological-model-independent test for the distance-duality (DD) relation $\eta(z)=D_L(z)(1+z)^{-2}/D_A(z)$, where $D_L$ and $D_A$ are the luminosity distance and angular diameter distance respectively, with a combination of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-15 Zhengxiang Li , Puxun Wu , Hongwei Yu

The Cosmic Distance Duality Relation (CDDR) is a basic relation of standard cosmology. This work tests the CDDR and cosmic transparency using angular diameter distances from DESI DR2, luminosity distances from Pantheon+, and direct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-23 Xuwei Zhang , Xiaofeng Yang , Yunliang Ren , Shuangnan Chen , Yangjun Shi , Cheng Cheng , Xiaolong He

The distance-duality relation (DDR) between the luminosity distance $D_L$ and the angular diameter distance $D_A$ is viewed as a powerful tool for testing for the opacity of the Universe, being independent of any cosmological model. It was…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Vaclav Vavrycuk , Pavel Kroupa

In this work, we perform a cosmological-model-independent test on the cosmic distance duality relation (CDDR) by comparing the angular diameter distance (ADD) obtained from the compact radio quasars (QSOs) with the luminosity distance (LD)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-19 Fan Yang , Xiangyun Fu , Bing Xu , Kaituo Zhang , Yang Huang , Ying Yang

In this paper, we test the cosmic distance duality (CDD) relation using the luminosity distances from joint light-curve analysis (JLA) type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) sample and angular diameter distance sample from galaxy clusters. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 J. Hu , F. Y. Wang

Many researchers have performed cosmological-model-independent tests for the distance duality (DD) relation. Theoretical work has been conducted based on the results of these tests. However, we find that almost all of these tests were…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-25 Xi Yang , Hao-Ran Yu , Zhi-Song Zhang , Tong-Jie Zhang

The measurement of angular diameter distance to galaxy clusters, through combined Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect data with X-ray emission observations, is now a well-known probe of cosmology. Using a combination of SZ data and a map of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Asantha Cooray

We demonstrate that the recent measurements of the angular diameter distance of 38 cluster of galaxies using Chandra X-ray data and radio observations from the OVRO and BIMA interferometric arrays place new and independent constraints on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Francesco De Bernardis , Elena Giusarma , Alessandro Melchiorri

The assumptions that "light propagates along null geodesics of the spacetime metric" and "the number of photons is conserved along the light path" lead to the distance duality relation (DDR), $\eta = D_L(z) (1 + z)^{-2}/D_A(z) = 1$, with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Vincenzo F. Cardone , Susanna Spiro , Isobel Hook , Roberto Scaramella

In this work, we test the cosmic distance duality relation (CDDR) using the arbitrary redshift pivot Pad\'e-(2,1) expansion methodology developed in arXiv:2509.16196. This approach allows us to constrain cosmography parameters and test CDDR…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Shubham Barua , Sujit K. Dalui , Rikiya Okazaki , Shantanu Desai

In addition to cosmological tests based on the mass function and clustering of galaxy clusters, which probe the growth of cosmic structure, nature offers two independent ways of using clusters to measure cosmic distances. The first uses…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-01 S. W. Allen , A. B. Mantz , R. G. Morris , D. E. Applegate , P. L. Kelly , A. von der Linden , D. A. Rapetti , R. W. Schmidt

In this paper, assuming the validity of distance duality relation, $\eta=D_L(z)(1+z)^{-2}/D_A(z)=1$, where $D_A(z)$ and $D_L(z)$ are the angular and the luminosity distance respectively, we explore two kinds of gas mass density profiles of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-08 Shuo Cao , Marek Biesiada , Xiaogang Zheng , Zong-Hong Zhu

The cosmic distance duality (CDD) relation (based on the Etherington reciprocity theorem) plays a crucial role in a wide assortment of cosmological measurements. Attempts at confirming it observationally have met with mixed results, though…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-19 Fulvio Melia

The Cosmic Distance Duality Relation (CDDR) connects the angular diameter distance ($d_A$) and the luminosity distance ($d_L$) at a given redshift. This fundamental relation holds in any metric theory of gravity, provided that photon number…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-15 Brijesh Kanodia , Ujjwal Upadhyay , Yashi Tiwari

Galaxy clusters have been used as a cosmic laboratory to verify a possible time variation of fundamental constants. Particularly, it has been shown that the ratio $Y_{SZ}D_{A}^{2}/C_{XZS}Y_X $, which is expected to be constant with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-01 L. R. Colaço , R. F. L. Holanda , R. Silva , J. S. Alcaniz

Nowadays, thanks to the improved precision of cosmological data, it has been possible to search for deviation from the general relativity theory with tests on large cosmic scales. Particularly, there is a class of modified gravity theories…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-18 R. F. L. Holanda , S. H. Pereira , S. Santos-da-Costa

We present a comprehensive test of the cosmic distance duality relation (DDR) using a combination of strong gravitational lensing (SGL) time delay measurements and Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) data. We investigate three different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-16 Jing-Zhao Qi , Yi-Fan Jiang , Wan-Ting Hou , Xin Zhang

The distance duality relation (DDR) relates two independent ways of measuring cosmological distances, namely the angular diameter distance and the luminosity distance. These can be measured with baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) and Type…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-03 Felicitas Keil , Savvas Nesseris , Isaac Tutusaus , Alain Blanchard

We study the validity of cosmic distance duality relation between angular diameter and luminosity distances. To test this duality relation we use the latest Union2 Supernovae Type Ia (SNe Ia) data for estimating the luminosity distance. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-11 S Jhingan , D Jain , R Nair

In this paper, we use the model dependent method to revisit the constraint on the well-known cosmic distance duality relation (CDDR). By using the latest SNIa samples, such as Union2.1, JLA and SNLS, we find that the SNIa data alone can not…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-28 Meng-Zhen Lv , Jun-Qing Xia