40 research outputs found
Inverse problem: Reconstruction of modified gravity action in Palatini formalism by Supernova Type Ia data
We introduce in gravity--Palatini formalism the method of inverse
problem to extract the action from the expansion history of the universe.
First, we use an ansatz for the scale factor and apply the inverse method to
derive an appropriate action for the gravity. In the second step we use the
Supernova Type Ia data set from the Union sample and obtain a smoothed function
for the Hubble parameter up to the redshift~1.7. We apply the smoothed Hubble
parameter in the inverse approach and reconstruct the corresponding action in
gravity. In the next step we investigate the viability of reconstruction
method, doing a Monte-Carlo simulation we generate synthetic SNIa data with the
quality of union sample and show that roughly more than 1500 SNIa data is
essential to reconstruct correct action. Finally with the enough SNIa data, we
propose two diagnosis in order to distinguish between the CDM model
and an alternative theory for the acceleration of the universe.Comment: 8 pages, 8 figures, accepted in Phys. Rev.
Peculiar velocity measurement in a clumpy universe
In this work we address the issue of peculiar velocity measurement in a
perturbed Friedmann universe using the deviations from measured luminosity
distances of standard candles from background FRW universe. We want to show and
quantify the statement that in intermediate redshifts (),
deviations from the background FRW model are not uniquely governed by peculiar
velocities. Luminosity distances are modified by gravitational lensing. We also
want to indicate the importance of relativistic calculations for peculiar
velocity measurement at all redshifts.
For this task we discuss the relativistic correction on luminosity distance
and redshift measurement and show the contribution of each of the corrections
as lensing term, peculiar velocity of the source and Sachs-Wolfe effect. Then
we use the SNe Ia sample of Union 2, to investigate the relativistic effects we
consider.
We show that, using the conventional peculiar velocity method, that ignores
the lensing effect, will result in an overestimate of the measured peculiar
velocities at intermediate redshifts. Here we quantify this effect. We show
that at low redshifts the lensing effect is negligible compare to the effect of
peculiar velocity. From the observational point of view, we show that the
uncertainties on luminosity of the present SNe Ia data prevent us from precise
measuring the peculiar velocities even at low redshifts ().Comment: 15 pages, 5 figures, Int. J. Mod. Phys. D 27, 1850019 (2018