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

Mr. NADATHUR, Seshadri (University of Oxford): Confronting inhomogeneous cosmologies with CMB data

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

Lecce, Università del Salento

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

Description

Recently there has been much interest in inhomogeneous cosmological models, especially Gpc scale voids described by an LTB metric, as a means to explain the supernovae Hubble diagram without the need for a cosmological constant. I will discuss these models and attempts to use the WMAP CMB angular power spectrum data to constrain them, especially in the context of alternative models of inflation.

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