A (giant) void is not mandatory to explain away dark energy with a Lemaître-Tolman model

DOI10.1051/0004-6361/200913581zbMATH Open1263.85065arXiv0906.0905OpenAlexW2158660098WikidataQ68981063 ScholiaQ68981063MaRDI QIDQ4905367FDOQ4905367

Authors: Marie-Noëlle Célérier, Krzysztof Bolejko, Andrzej Krasiński 

Publication date: 18 February 2013

Published in: Astronomy and Astrophysics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Lema^itre - Tolman (L--T) toy models with a central observer have been used to study the effect of large scale inhomogeneities on the SN Ia dimming. Claims that a giant void is mandatory to explain away dark energy in this framework are currently dominating. Our aim is to show that L-T models exist that reproduce a few features of the $Lambda$CDM model, but do not contain the giant cosmic void. We propose to use two sets of data - the angular diameter distance together with the redshift-space mass-density and the angular diameter distance together with the expansion rate - both defined on the past null cone as functions of the redshift. We assume that these functions are of the same form as in the $Lambda$CDM model. Using the Mustapha-Hellaby-Ellis algorithm, we numerically transform these initial data into the usual two L-T arbitrary functions and solve the evolution equation to calculate the mass distribution in spacetime. For both models, we find that the current density profile does not exhibit a giant void, but rather a giant hump. However, this hump is not directly observable, since it is in a spacelike relation to a present observer. The alleged existence of the giant void was a consequence of the L-T models used earlier because their generality was limited a priori by needless simplifying assumptions, like, for example, the bang-time function being constant. Instead, one can feed any mass distribution or expansion rate history on the past light cone as initial data to the L-T evolution equation. When a fully general L-T metric is used, the giant void is not implied.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.0905

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zbMATH Keywords

cosmology: miscellaneouscosmology: dark energy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

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