Cosmological constraints for the cosmic defect theory

Ninfa Radicella, Mauro Sereno, Angelo Tartaglia

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    Abstract

    The cosmic defect theory has been confronted with four observational constraints: primordial nuclear species abundances emerging from the big bang nucleosynthesis; large scale structure formation in the Universe; cosmic microwave background acoustic scale; luminosity distances of type Ia supernovae. The test has been based on a statistical analysis of the a posteriori probabilities for three parameters of the theory. The result has been quite satisfactory and such that the performance of the theory is not distinguishable from that of the ΛCDM theory. The use of the optimal values of the parameters for the calculation of the Hubble constant and the age of the Universe confirms the compatibility of the cosmic defect approach with observations. © 2011 World Scientific Publishing Company.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1039-1051
    JournalInternational Journal of Modern Physics D
    Volume20
    Issue number6
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 5 Jun 2011

    Keywords

    • cosmology
    • extended theories of gravity
    • Spacetime

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