Finding a Spherically Symmetric Cosmology from Observations in Observational Coordinates -- Advantages and Challenges

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2010-11-29

arxiv.org/abs/1011.6110v3

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

31 pages

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One of the continuing challenges in cosmology has been to determine the large-scale space-time metric from observations with a minimum of assumptions -- without, for instance, assuming that the universe is almost Friedmann-Lema\^{i}tre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW). If we are lucky enough this would be a way of demonstrating that our universe is FLRW, instead of presupposing it or simply showing that the observations are consistent with FLRW. Showing how to do this within the more general spherically symmetric, inhomogeneous space-time framework takes us a long way towards fulfilling this goal. In recent work researchers have shown how this can be done both in the traditional Lema\^{i}tre-Tolman-Bondi (LTB) 3 + 1 coordinate framework, and in the observational coordinate (OC) framework. In this paper we investigate the stability of solutions, and the use of data in the OC field equations including their time evolution and compare both approaches with respect to the singularity problem at the maximum of the angular-diameter distance, the stability of solutions, and the use of data in the field equations. This allows a more detailed account and assessment of the OC integration procedure, and enables a comparison of the relative advantages of the two equivalent solution frameworks. Both formulations and integration procedures should, in principle, lead to the same results. However, as we show in this paper, the OC procedure manifests certain advantages, particularly in the avoidance of coordinate singularities at the maximum of the angular-diameter distance, and in the stability of the solutions obtained. This particular feature is what allows us to do the best fitting of the data to smooth data functions and the possibility of constructing analytic solutions to the field equations.

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