49 research outputs found
Late time anisotropy as an imprint of cosmological backreaction
Backreaction effects of the large scale structure on the background dynamics
have been claimed to lead to a renormalization of the background dynamics that
may account for the late time acceleration of the cosmic expansion. This
article emphasizes that generically the averaged flow is locally anisotropic, a
property that can be related to observation. Focusing on perturbation theory,
the spatially averaged shear, that characterizes the anisotropy of the flow, is
computed. It is shown that this shear arising from backreaction differs from a
homogeneous shear: its time evolution is different and its amplitude is
completely determined by the cosmological parameters and the matter power
spectrum. It ranges within (2-37)% at a redshift of order 0.5 so that the
isotropy of the Hubble flow may allow to constrain the backreaction approach to
dark energy.Comment: 14 pages, 7 figures. Typos corrected. Article published in Phys. Rev.
D 86, 063528 (2012
Comment on "Origin of cosmic magnetic fields"
We argue that the result presented in "Origin of cosmic magnetic fields" by
L. Campanelli [arXiv:1304.6534] is unphysical.Comment: 1 page, 1 figure. Typos fixed, minor corrections, a comment added,
version published in PR
Observation angles, Fermi coordinates, and the Geodesic-Light-Cone gauge
We show that the angular directions locally measured by a static geodesic
observer in a generic cosmological background and expressed in the system of
Fermi Normal Coordinates always coincide with those expressed in the
Geodesic-Light-Cone (GLC) gauge, up to a local transformation which exploits
the residual gauge freedom of the GLC coordinates. This is not the case for
other gauges - like, for instance, the synchronous and longitudinal gauge -
commonly used in the context of observational cosmology. We also make an
explicit proposal for the GLC gauge-fixing condition that ensures a full
identification of its angles with the observational ones.Comment: 14 pages, version accepted for publication on JCA
Cosmological evolution of the gravitational entropy of the large-scale structure
We consider the entropy associated with the large-scale structure of the
Universe in the linear regime, where the Universe can be described by a
perturbed Friedmann-Lema\^itre spacetime. In particular, we compare two
different definitions proposed in the literature for the entropy using a
spatial averaging prescription. For one definition, the entropy of the
large-scale structure for a given comoving volume always grows with time, both
for a CDM and a CDM model. In particular, while it diverges for a CDM
model, it saturates to a constant value in the presence of a cosmological
constant. The use of a light-cone averaging prescription in the context of the
evaluation of the entropy is also discussed.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures. Presentation improved, typos corrected, previous
subsection III.B merged with subsection II.C, comments, clarifications and a
reference added. Version accepted for publication in GR
CMB-lensing beyond the leading order: temperature and polarization anisotropies
We investigate the weak lensing corrections to the CMB temperature and
polarization anisotropies. We consider all the effects beyond the leading
order: post-Born corrections, LSS corrections and, for the polarization
anisotropies, the correction due to the rotation of the polarization direction
between the emission at the source and the detection at the observer. We show
that the full next-to-leading order correction to the B-mode polarization is
not negligible on small scales and is dominated by the contribution from the
rotation, this is a new effect not taken in account in previous works.
Considering vanishing primordial gravitational waves, the B-mode correction due
to rotation is comparable to cosmic variance for , in
contrast to all other spectra where the corrections are always below that
threshold for a single multipole. Moreover, the sum of all the effects is
larger than cosmic variance at high multipoles, showing that higher-order
lensing corrections to B-mode polarization are in principle detectable.Comment: 32 pages, 6 figures. New results about the signal-to-noise amplitude
for next-to-leading order corrections, further clarifications about the
polarization rotation and references added. Version accepted for publication
in Physical Review