SNIa data to probe the Cosmological Principle

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2000-06-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0006273v1

Proceedings of the XXXVth Rencontres de Moriond, Energy Densities in the Universe, eds J. Tran Thanh Van, R. Ansari and Y. Gir

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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4 LaTex pages, to be published in the Proceedings of the XXXVth Rencontres de Moriond, Energy Densities in the Universe, Editi

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Recently collected SNIa data have been used to address the problem of measuring the cosmological parameters of the universe. Analysed in the framework of homogeneous models, they have yielded, as a primary result, a strictly positive cosmological constant. However, a straight reading of the published measurements, conducted with no a priori idea of which model would best describe our universe, at least up to redshifts z=1, does not exclude the possibility of ruling out the Cosmological Principle - and cosmological constant - hypotheses. It is here shown how the large scale (in)homogeneity of this part of the universe can be tested on our past light cone, using the magnitude-redshift relation, provided sufficiently accurate data from sources at redshifts approaching z=1 would be available.

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