Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2012-04-04
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
17 pages, 2 figures
Scientific paper
The current cosmological dark sector (dark matter plus dark energy) is challenging our comprehension about the physical processes taking place in the Universe. Recently, some authors tried to falsify the basic underlying assumptions of such dark matter-dark energy paradigm. In this Letter, we show that oversimplifications of the measurement process may produce false positives to any consistency test based on the globally homogeneous and isotropic LCDM model and its expansion history based on distance measurements. In particular, when the local inhomogeneity effects due to clumped matter or voids are taken into account, an apparent violation of the basic assumptions ("Copernican Principle") seems to be present. Furthermore, a new method is devised to reconstruct the effects of the inhomogeneities in a LCDM model, and some suggestions of how to distinguish between clumpiness (or void) effects from different cosmologies are discussed.
Busti Vinicius C.
Lima Jose A. S.
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