Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1995-06-25
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
20 pages (58K), 8 Postscript figures (111K compressed); Submitted to MNRAS. Postscript source available at http://astro.quee
Scientific paper
Recent observations of Cepheids in the Virgo cluster have bolstered the evidence that supports a Hubble constant in 70-90 km/s/Mpc range. This evidence, by and large, probes the expansion of the Universe within 100 Mpc. We investigate the possibility that the expansion rate within this region is systematically higher than the true expansion rate due to the presence of a local, large underdense region or void. We begin by calculating the expected deviations between the locally measured Hubble constant and the true Hubble constant for a variety of models. We also discuss the expected correlations between these deviations and mass fluctuation for the sample volume. We find that the fluctuations are small for the standard cold dark matter as well as mixed dark matter models but can be substantial in a number of interesting and viable nonstandard scenarios. However, deviations in the Hubble flow for a region of radius 200 Mpc are small for virtually all reasonable models. Therefore, methods based on supernovae or the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, which can probe 200 Mpc scales, will be essential in determining the true Hubble constant. We discuss, in detail, the fluctuations induced in the cosmic background radiation by voids at the last scattering surface. In addition, we discuss the dipole and quadrupole fluctuations one would expect if the void enclosing us is aspherical or if we lie off-center.
Dursi Jonathan L.
Shi Xiangdong
Widrow Lawrence M.
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