期刊
PHYSICS LETTERS B
卷 697, 期 4, 页码 265-270出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2011.02.007
关键词
Inhomogeneous Universe; Averaging; Giant void; Szekeres model
资金
- Marie Curie Fellowship [PIEF-GA-2009-252950]
- [PAPIIT-DGAPA IN119309]
Inhomogeneous cosmological models are able to fit cosmological observations without dark energy under the assumption that we live close to the center of a very large-scale under-dense region. Most studies fitting observations by means of inhomogeneities also assume spherical symmetry, and thus being at (or very near) the center may imply being located at a very special and unlikely observation point. We argue that such spherical voids should be treated only as a gross first approximation to configurations that follow from a suitable smoothing out of the non-spherical part of the inhomogeneities on angular scales. In this Letter we present a toy construction that supports the above statement. The construction uses parts of the Szekeres model, which is inhomogeneous and anisotropic thus it also addresses the limitations of spherical inhomogeneities. By using the thin-shell approximation (which means that the Israel-Darmois continuity conditions are not fulfilled between the shells) we construct a model of evolving cosmic structures, containing several elongated supercluster-like structures with underdense regions between them, which altogether provides a reasonable coarse-grained description of cosmic structures. While this configuration is not spherically symmetric, its proper volume average yields a spherical void profile of 250 Mpc that roughly agrees with observations. Also, by considering a non-spherical inhomogeneity, the definition of a center location becomes more nuanced, and thus the constraints placed by fitting observations on our position with respect to this location become less restrictive. Crown Copyright (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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