Model independent tests of the standard cosmological model
Model independent tests of the standard cosmological model
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevd.81.083537
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发表时间:
2009-11
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5
通讯作者:
A. Shafieloo;C. Clarkson
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作者:
A. Shafieloo;C. Clarkson
The dark energy problem has led to speculation that not only may $\ensuremath{\Lambda}\mathrm{CDM}$ be wrong, but that the Friedmann-Lema\^{\i}tre-Robertson-Walker models themselves may not even provide the correct family of background models. We discuss how direct measurements of $H(z)$ can be used to formulate tests of the standard paradigm in cosmology. On their own, such measurements can be used to test for deviations from flat $\ensuremath{\Lambda}\mathrm{CDM}$. When combined with supernovae distances, Hubble rate measurements provide a test of the Copernican principle and the homogeneity assumption of the standard model, which is independent of dark energy or a metric based the theory of gravity. A modification of this test also provides a model independent observable for flatness which decorrelates curvature determination from dark energy. We investigate these tests using Hubble rate measurements from age data, as well as from a Hubble rate inferred from recent measurements of the baryon acoustic oscillations. While the current data are too weak to say anything significant, these tests are exciting prospects for the future.