13–18 Sept 2010
Lecce, Università del Salento
Europe/Rome timezone
The 4th UniverseNet Annual School - Lecce, 13-18 September 2010

Mr. DE LAVALLAZ, Arnaud (King's College London): Voids in LambdaCDM: Effects on Density Parameters

16 Sept 2010, 14:45
15m
Lecce, Università del Salento

Lecce, Università del Salento

Via Michele De Pietro, 12 I-73100 Lecce (LE)

Description

We consider a Swiss-cheese model embedded in a LambdaCDM universe in order to study the effects that voids might have on conclusions about dark energy. Testing various geometrical configurations, we want to analyse how voids could affect the values of Omega_m and Omega_{Lambda}.

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