13–18 Dec 2015
International Conference Centre Geneva
Europe/Zurich timezone

Confronting anisotropic cosmological models with real-time cosmology

14 Dec 2015, 17:15
20m
Level 2, Room 13 (International Conference Centre Geneva)

Level 2, Room 13

International Conference Centre Geneva

Speaker

Wessel Valkenburg (Leiden University)

Description

A repetition of the same high-resolution and large-volume observation, after ten or more years, gives access to the fourth dimension in observational cosmology, perpendicular to the light-cone. I discuss how various toy models can be distinguished by decomposing the long-time-difference maps into multipole vectors. A next-generation GAIA-like satellite with ten times GAIA's resolution, should be able to distinguish rotation from anisotropic expansion.

Primary author

Wessel Valkenburg (Leiden University)

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