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用星系恒星形成历史检验同质性

Testing Homogeneity with Galaxy Star Formation Histories

Ben Hoyle, Rita Tojeiro, Raul Jimenez, Alan Heavens, Chris Clarkson, Roy Maartens

摘要:

在足够大的宇宙学尺度上观测确认空间均匀性对于检验宇宙学的一个基本假设非常重要,对于正确解释暗能量也是必不可少的。一个具有挑战性的方面是,均匀性必须在我们过去的光锥内探测,而观测则发生在光锥上。星系化石记录中的恒星形成历史(SFH)提供了一种新的方法来做到这一点。本文计算了Sloan数字巡天获得的叠层发光红星系(LRG)光谱的SFH。我们将LRG样本分为12个等面积连续的天空斑块和10个红移切片(0.2 < z < 0.5),它们对应于体积为0.04Gpc3的120个块。使用SFH在一个时间段内,它采样的历史之间的回顾时间11.5至13.4 Gyrs作为代理的均匀性,我们计算后验分布的过度大规模的方差由于不均匀性,并发现,最有可能的解决方案是没有额外的方差。在95%的可信度下,没有证据表明偏差大于5.8%。

英文摘要:

Observationally confirming spatial homogeneity on sufficiently large cosmological scales is of importance to test one of the underpinning assumptions of cosmology, and is also imperative for correctly interpreting dark energy. A challenging aspect of this is that homogeneity must be probed inside our past lightcone, while observations take place on the lightcone. The star formation history (SFH) in the galaxy fossil record provides a novel way to do this. We calculate the SFH of stacked Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) spectra obtained from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We divide the LRG sample into 12 equal area contiguous sky patches and 10 redshift slices (0.2 < z < 0.5), which correspond to 120 blocks of volume 0.04Gpc3. Using the SFH in a time period which samples the history of the Universe between look-back times 11.5 to 13.4 Gyrs as a proxy for homogeneity, we calculate the posterior distribution for the excess large-scale variance due to inhomogeneity, and find that the most likely solution is no extra variance at all. At 95% credibility, there is no evidence of deviations larger than 5.8%.

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