Can We See the Shape of the Universe?

Details Can We See the Shape of the Universe? Can We See the Shape of the Universe?

2002-10-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0210279v1

Int.J.Mod.Phys. A17 (2002) 4281-4286

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, latex2e, contribution to the 5th Alexander Friedmann Seminar on Gravitation and Cosmology, to appear in Int. J. Mod.

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This is a written version of a talk given at the Fifth Friedmann Seminar on recent work in Observational Cosmic Topology done in partial collaboration with Armando Bernui. We address three relevant questions related to the search for the size and shape of our Universe: (i) How do the actual observation of multiple images of certain cosmic objects, e.g. galaxy clusters, constrain the possible models for the shape of our Universe?, (ii) What kind of predictions can be done once a pair of cosmic objects have been identified to be topological images related by a translation?, and (iii) Is it possible to determine if two regions of space are topologically identified, even when distortions on the distributions of cosmic sources due to observational limitations are not negligible? We give examples answering the first two questions using the suggestion of Roukema and Edge that the clusters RXJ 1347.5-1145 and CL 09104+4109 might be topological images of the Coma cluster. For the third question, we suggest a method based on the analysis of PSH's noise correlations which seems to give a positive answer.

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