Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2008-07-23
JCAP 0810:003,2008
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
15 pages, 5 figures; matches published version
Scientific paper
10.1088/1475-7516/2008/10/003
In this paper we consider the relation between the volume deceleration parameter obtained within the Buchert averaging scheme and the deceleration parameter derived from the supernova observation. This work was motivated by recent findings that showed that there are models which despite $\Lambda=0$ have volume deceleration parameter $q^{vol} < 0$. This opens the possibility that backreaction and averaging effects may be used as an interesting alternative explanation to the dark energy phenomenon. We have calculated $q^{vol}$ in some Lema\^itre--Tolman models. For those models which are chosen to be realistic and which fit the supernova data, we find that $q^{vol} > 0$, while those models which we have been able to find which exhibit $q^{vol} < 0$ turn out to be unrealistic. This indicates that care must be exercised in relating the deceleration parameter to observations.
Andersson L.-L.
Bolejko Krzysztof
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