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Cosmic age test in inhomogeneous cosmological models mimicking $\Lambda$CDM on the light cone

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-03-13 v3

Abstract

The possibility of reconstructing a spherically symmetric inhomogeneous Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi (LTB) model with Λ\LambdaCDM observations has drawn a lot of attention. Recently, a LTB model having the same luminosity-distance and light-cone mass density as the Λ\LambdaCDM model was reconstructed. We calculate the cosmic age at our position in this model, and get the age tLTB<11.7t_{LTB}<11.7Gyr in 2σ\sigma confidence level from the Seven-Year WMAP observations. This result is inconsistent with some Milky Way observations.

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@article{arxiv.1002.0978,
  title  = {Cosmic age test in inhomogeneous cosmological models mimicking $\Lambda$CDM on the light cone},
  author = {Mi-Xiang Lan and Miao Li and Xiao-Dong Li and Shuang Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.0978},
  year   = {2015}
}

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6 pages, 1 figures

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