Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-05-04
Class.Quant.Grav.28:164005,2011
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
15 pages, 9 figures; minor changes, version published in CQG focus section "Inhomogeneous Cosmological Models and Averaging in
Scientific paper
10.1088/0264-9381/28/16/164005
There has been considerable recent interest in cosmological models in which the current apparent acceleration is due to a very large local underdensity, or void, instead of some form of dark energy. Here we examine a new proposal to constrain such models using the linear kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect due to structure within the void. The simplified "Hubble bubble" models previously studied appeared to predict far more kSZ power than is actually observed, independently of the details of the initial conditions and evolution of perturbations in such models. We show that the constraining power of the kSZ effect is considerably weakened (though still impressive) under a fully relativistic treatment of the problem, and point out several theoretical ambiguities and observational shortcomings which further qualify the results. Nevertheless, we conclude that a very large class of void models is ruled out by the combination of kSZ and other methods.
Moss Adam
Zibin James Peter
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