Cosmological Observations in a Local Void

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1994-07-13

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9407036v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

22 pages, 10 figures, LaTeX [aaspp,subeqn]{article}, UTPT-94-19

Scientific paper

10.1086/176365

A local void in the globally Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) cosmological model is studied. The inhomogeneity is described using the Lema\^{\i}tre-Tolman-Bondi (LTB) solution with the spherically symmetric matter distribution based on the faint galaxies number counts. We investigate the effects this has on the measurement of the Hubble constant and the redshift--luminosity distance relation for moderately and very distant objects ($z \approx 0.1$ and more). The results, while fully compatible with cosmological observations, indicate that if we happened to live in such a void, but insisted on interpreting cosmological observations through the FRW model, we could get a few unexpected results. For example the Hubble constant measurement could give results depending on the separation of the source and the observer.

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