Université de GenèveDépartement de Physique ThéoriqueCAP Genève

Vector and Tensor Contributions to the Luminosity Distance

Date: 
3. July 2012
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E. Di Dio, R. Durrer, Phys. Rev. D 86, 023510 (2012)
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We compute the vector and tensor contributions to the luminosity distance fluctuations in first order perturbation theory and we expand them in spherical harmonics. This work presents the formalism with a first application to a stochastic background of primordial gravitational waves.

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