Angular diameter distances reconsidered in the Newman and Penrose formalism

DOI10.1007/S10714-015-2011-4zbMATH Open1334.83025arXiv1601.02475OpenAlexW3100176200MaRDI QIDQ265751FDOQ265751

Thomas P. Kling, Aly Aly

Publication date: 12 April 2016

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Using the Newman and Penrose spin coefficient (NP) formalism, we provide a derivation of the Dyer-Roeder equation for the angular diameter distance in cosmological space-times. We show that the geodesic deviation equation written in NP formalism is precisely the Dyer-Roeder equation for a general Friedman-Robertson-Walker (FRW) space-time, and then we examine the angular diameter distance to redshift relation in the case that a flat FRW metric is perturbed by a gravitational potential. We examine the perturbation in the case that the gravitational potential exhibits the properties of a thin gravitational lens, demonstrating how the weak lensing shear and convergence act as source terms for the perturbed Dyer-Roeder equation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.02475

zbMATH Keywords

gravitational lensingDyer-Roeder equationFriedman-Robertson-Walker (FRW) space-timegeodesic deviation equationNewman-Penrose spin coefficient formalism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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• Note on the luminosity distance
• Approximate angular diameter distance in a locally inhomogeneous universe with nonzero cosmological constant

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