Journal
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 400, Issue 4, Pages 2185-2199Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15616.x
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relativity; supernovae: general; cosmological parameters; cosmology: theory; large-scale structure of Universe
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- Jesus College
- STFC
- BIPAC
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We consider the effects of large structures in the Universe on the Hubble diagram. This problem is treated non-linearly by considering a Swiss Cheese model of the Universe in which underdense voids are represented as negatively curved regions of space-time. Exact expressions for luminosity distances and redshifts are used to investigate the non-linear effects of structure on the magnitudes of astrophysical sources. It is found that the intervening voids we consider, between the observer and source, produce changes in apparent magnitude of less than 0.012. Sources inside voids, however, can be affected considerably at redshifts below z similar to 0.5. By averaging observable quantities over many randomly generated distributions of voids we find that the presence of these structures has the effect of introducing a dispersion around the mean, which itself can be displaced the background value. Observers in an inhomogeneous universe, who take averages of observables along many different lines of sight, may then introduce systematic biases, and underestimate errors, if these effects are not taken into account. Estimates of the potential size of these effects are made using data from simulated large-scale structure.
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