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宇宙大尺度曲率的模型独立测量

A model independent measure of the large scale curvature of the Universe

Edvard Mortsell, Jakob Jonsson

摘要:

作为红移函数的宇宙学距离依赖于有效曲率密度,通过大尺度空间曲率对光子几何路径的影响及其对膨胀历史H(z)的影响。然而,宇宙时间只取决于膨胀历史。因此,通过组合距离和回望时间观测(或扩展历史的其他估计),可以隔离几何曲率贡献并以模型无关的方式测量曲率,即,不受关于宇宙能量含量的假设的影响。我们调查两种不同的方法来完成这项任务;微分和积分的方法。差分方法除了需要距离之外,还需要距离对红移的导数以及膨胀历史的知识。积分方法是基于通过对宇宙时间的测量来测量膨胀历史的逆的积分,例如,从银河时代。在本文中,我们试图约束宇宙的大尺度曲率使用的距离从Ia型超新星的观测与推断年龄的被动演化星系和哈勃参数估计从大尺度星系团。目前的数据是一致的零空间曲率,虽然曲率密度的不确定性是为了统一。未来的数据集与成千上万的Ia型超新星的距离和星系年龄的顺序将允许我们约束曲率密度的不确定性小于0.1在95%的置信水平。

英文摘要:

Cosmological distances as a function of redshift depend on the effective curvature density via the effect on the geometrical path of photons from large scale spatial curvature and its effect on the expansion history, H(z). Cosmological time, however, depends on the expansion history only. Therefore, by combining distance and lookback time observations (or other estimates of the expansion history), it is possible to isolate the geometrical curvature contribution and measure the curvature in a model independent way, i.e., free from assumptions about the energy content of the universe. We investigate two different approaches to accomplish this task; the differential and the integral approach. The differential approach requires, in addition to distances, derivatives of distance with respect to redshift as well as knowledge of the expansion history. The integral approach is based on measuring the integral of the inverse of the expansion history via measurements of cosmic time as derived, e.g., from galaxy ages. In this paper, we attempt to constrain the large scale curvature of the Universe using distances obtained from observations of Type Ia supernovae together with inferred ages of passively evolving galaxies and Hubble parameter estimates from the large scale clustering of galaxies. Current data are consistent with zero spatial curvature, although the uncertainty on the curvature density is of order unity. Future data sets with on the order of thousands of Type Ia supernovae distances and galaxy ages will allow us to constrain the curvature density with an uncertainty of less than 0.1 at the 95% confidence level.

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