mediasite
Presenter photo
Alessio Notari
Nonlinear Structure Formation and Apparent Acceleration: An Investigation
Air Date: 05/19/2007
Air Time: 4:30 PM EST
Length: 0 Hours, 32 Minutes, 22 Seconds
Description: We present analytically solvable nonlinear models of structure formation in a Universe with only dust, using LTB solutions. We show that the luminosity distance-redshift relation has significant corrections at low redshift (Doppler effect). We discuss different possibilities that could further enhance this effect and mimick Dark Energy. We find negligible integrated effect, suppressed by $(L/R_{H})^3$ (where $L$ is the size of the structure, and $R_{H}$ is the Hubble radius) and we make contact with cosmological perturbation theory.

MediaLandscape Software A Mediasite presentation converted into Macromedia® Flash® format using MediaLandscape Converter