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Non-circular rotating beams and CMB experiments
This paper is concerned with small angular scale experiments for the
observation of cosmic microwave background anisotropies. In the absence of
beam, the effects of partial coverage and pixelisation are disentangled and
analyzed (using simulations). Then, appropriate maps involving the CMB signal
plus the synchrotron and dust emissions from the Milky Way are simulated, and
an asymmetric beam --which turns following different strategies-- is used to
smooth the simulated maps. An associated circular beam is defined to estimate
the deviations in the angular power spectrum produced by beam asymmetry without
rotation and, afterwards, the deviations due to beam rotation are calculated.
For a certain large coverage, the deviations due to pure asymmetry and
asymmetry plus rotation appear to be very systematic (very similar in each
simulation). Possible applications of the main results of this paper to data
analysis in large coverage experiments --as PLANCK-- are outlined.Comment: 13 pages, 9 figures, to appear in A&
Cosmological solutions in F(R) Horava-Lifshitz gravity
At the present work, it is studied the extension of F (R) gravities to the
new recently proposed theory of gravity, the so-called Horava-Lifshitz gravity,
which provides a way to make the theory power counting renormalizable by
breaking Lorentz invariance. It is showed that dark energy can be well
explained in the frame of this extension, just in terms of gravity. It is also
explored the possibility to unify inflation and late-time acceleration under
the same mechanism, providing a natural explanation the accelerated expansion.Comment: 4 pages. Contribution to the Proceedings of the Spanish Relativity
Meeting (ERE) 2010, Granada, Spai
Small Angular Scale Simulations of the Microwave Sky
We describe and compare two types of microwave sky simulations which are good
for small angular scales. The first type uses expansions in spherical
harmonics, and the second one is based on plane waves and the Fast Fourier
Transform. The angular power spectrum is extracted from maps corresponding to
both types of simulations, and the resulting spectra are appropriately
compared. In this way, the features and usefulness of Fourier simulations are
pointed out. For , all the simulations lead to similar
accuracies; however, the CPU cost of Fourier simulations is times
smaller than that for spherical harmonic simulations. For , the
simulations based on spherical harmonics seem to be preferable.Comment: 16 pages (LATEX), 2 postcript figures. Accepted in Ap
Spherically Symmetric Solutions in M\o ller's Tetrad Theory of Gravitation
The general solution of M\o ller's field equations in case of spherical
symmetry is derived. The previously obtained solutions are verified as special
cases of the general solution.Comment: LaTeX2e with AMS-LaTeX 1.2, 8 page
Testing the equation of state for viscous dark energy
Some cosmological scenarios with bulk viscosity for the dark energy fluid are considered. Based on
some considerations related to hydrodynamics, two different equations of state for dark energy are
assumed, leading to power-law and logarithmic effective corrections to the pressure. The models are tested
with the latest astronomical data from type Ia supernovae (Pantheon sample), measurements of the Hubble
parameter HðzÞ, baryon acoustic oscillations and cosmic microwave background radiation. In comparison
with the ΛCDM model, some different results are obtained and their viability is discussed. The power-law
model shows some modest results, achieved under negative values of bulk viscosity, while the logarithmic
scenario provide good fits in comparison to the ΛCDM model.Ministerio de EconomÃa, Industria y Competitividad (project FIS2016-76363-P)Agencia de Gestión de Ayudas Universitarias y de Investigación (project 2017 SGR 247)CANTATA COST action (grant CA15117
Cardy-Verlinde formula in FRW Universe with inhomogeneous generalized fluid and dynamical entropy bounds near the future singularity
We derive a Cardy-Verlinde-like formula which relates the entropy of the
closed FRW universe to its energy, and Casimir energy, for a multicomponent
coupled fluid. The generalized fluid obeys an inhomogeneous equation of state.
A viscous dark fluid is included, and we include also modified gravity using
its fluid representation. It is demonstrated how such an expression reduces to
the standard Cardy-Verlinde formula corresponding to the 2d CFT entropy only in
some special cases. The dynamical entropy bound for a closed FRW universe with
dark components is obtained. The universality of the dynamical entropy bound
near a future singularity (of all four types), as well as near the Big Bang
singularity, is investigated. It is demonstrated that except from some special
cases of Type II and Type IV singularities the dynamical entropy bound is
violated near the singularity even if quantum effects are taken into account.
The dynamical entropy bound seems to be universal for the case of a regular
universe, including the asymptotic de Sitter one.Comment: 14 pages. Published versio
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