Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2004-05-18
Phys.Rev. D69 (2004) 124027
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
8 pages, 1 figure. To appear in Phys.Rev.D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.69.124027
We use null spherical (observational) coordinates to describe a class of inhomogeneous cosmological models. The proposed cosmological construction is based on the observer past null cone. A known difficulty in using inhomogeneous models is that the null geodesic equation is not integrable in general. Our choice of null coordinates solves the radial ingoing null geodesic by construction. Furthermore, we use an approach where the velocity field is uniquely calculated from the metric rather than put in by hand. Conveniently, this allows us to explore models in a non-comoving frame of reference. In this frame, we find that the velocity field has shear, acceleration and expansion rate in general. We show that a comoving frame is not compatible with expanding perfect fluid models in the coordinates proposed and dust models are simply not possible. We describe the models in a non-comoving frame. We use the dust models in a non-comoving frame to outline a fitting procedure.
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