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各向异性天空采样对数值相对论中哈勃常数的影响

The impact of anisotropic sky-sampling on the Hubble constant in numerical relativity

Hayley J. Macpherson

AI总结:

本研究利用数值相对论模拟和光线追踪生成合成超新星星表,发现各向异性天空采样可导致哈勃常数推断产生4-6%的偏差,表明考虑膨胀各向异性或可降低哈勃张力的显著性。

摘要:

我们研究了近邻不均匀性对观测者推断哈勃常数的影响。大尺度结构导致宇宙学参数依赖于观测者位置,并在观测者天空中产生这些参数的各向异性方差。尽管前者已被相当彻底地探讨,后者却尚未得到研究。如果我们假设各向同性膨胀定律,对各向异性天空的不完整采样可能会在我们的宇宙学推断中引入偏差。在这项工作中,我们使用大尺度结构的数值相对论模拟结合光线追踪,生成了模拟低红移 Pantheon 超新星数据集的合成星表。我们的数据包含了模拟中沿测地线的距离和红移波动的所有广义相对论贡献。我们使用这些合成观测来约束一组随机位置观测者的 $H_0$。我们既研究了其对观测者位置的依赖性,也研究了在观测者天空中旋转超新星样本所产生的影响。我们发现,当观测者使用各向同性的天体样本时,不同观测者之间的 $H_0$ 存在 1--2% 的方差。然而,我们发现当观测者仅仅在天空中旋转其 Pantheon 数据集时,推断出的 $H_0$ 值可以变化高达 4--6%。虽然我们发现的方差低于“哈勃张力”的水平,但如果能正确考虑膨胀的各向异性,我们的结果可能表明该张力的显著性会有所降低。

英文摘要:

We study the impact of nearby inhomogeneities on an observer's inference of the Hubble constant. Large-scale structures induce a dependence of cosmological parameters on observer position as well as an anisotropic variance of those parameters across an observer's sky. While the former has been explored quite thoroughly, the latter has not. Incomplete sampling of an anisotropic sky could introduce a bias in our cosmological inference if we assume an isotropic expansion law. In this work, we use numerical relativity simulations of large-scale structure combined with ray tracing to produce synthetic catalogs mimicking the low-redshift Pantheon supernova dataset. Our data contains all general-relativistic contributions to fluctuations in the distances and redshifts along geodesics in the simulation. We use these synthetic observations to constrain $H_0$ for a set of randomly-positioned observers. We study both the dependence on observer position as well as the impact of rotating the sample of supernovae on the observer's sky. We find a 1--2\% variance in $H_0$ between observers when they use an isotropic sample of objects. However, we find the inferred value of $H_0$ can vary by up to 4--6\% when observers simply rotate their Pantheon data set on the sky. While the variances we find are below the level of the ``Hubble tension'', our results may suggest a reduction in the significance of the tension if anisotropy of expansion can be correctly accounted for.

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