Galaxy redshift abundance periodicity from Fourier analysis of number counts N(z) using SDSS and 2dF GRS galaxy surveys

Astrophysics and Space Science - Tập 318 - Trang 13-24 - 2008
J. G. Hartnett1, K. Hirano2
1School of Physics, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
2Department of Physics, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan

Tóm tắt

A Fourier analysis on galaxy number counts from redshift data of both the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey indicates that galaxies have preferred periodic redshift spacings of Δz= 0.0102, 0.0246, and 0.0448 in the SDSS and strong agreement with the results from the 2dF GRS. The redshift spacings are confirmed by the mass density fluctuations, the power spectrum P(z) and N pairs calculations. Application of the Hubble law results in galaxies preferentially located on co-moving concentric shells with periodic spacings. The combined results from both surveys indicate regular co-moving radial distance spacings of 31.7±1.8 h−1 Mpc, 73.4±5.8 h−1 Mpc and 127±21 h−1  Mpc. The results are consistent with oscillations in the expansion rate of the universe over past epochs.

Tài liệu tham khảo

Baugh, C.: Correlation function and power spectra in cosmology. In: Encycl. of Astronomy and Astrophysics. IOP Publishing, Bristol (2006) Broadhurst, T.J., Ellis, R.S., Shanks, T.: Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 235, 827 (1988) Broadhurst, T.J., Ellis, R.S., Koo, D.C., Szalay, A.S.: Nature 343, 726 (1990) Colless, M.M., et al.: Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 328, 1039 (2001) González, J.A., Quevedo, H., Salgado, M., Sudarsky, D.: Astron. Astrophys. 362, 835 (2000) Hamilton, A.J.S., Tegmark, M., Padmanabhan, N.: Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 317, L23 (2000) Hirano, K., Kawabata, K., Komiya, Z.: Astrophys. Space Sci. 315, 53 (2008) Kaiser, N., Peacock, J.A.: Astrophys. J. 379, 482 (1991) Kolb, E.W., Turner, M.S.: The Early Universe. Addison-Wesley, Redwood City (1990) Melott, A.L., Coles, P., Feldman, H.A., Wilhite, B.: Astrophys. J. 496, L85 (1998) Mo, H.J., Deng, Z.G., Xia, X.Y., Schiller, P., Börner, G.: Astron. Astrophys. 257, 1 (1992) Peebles, P.J.E.: The Large Scale Structure of the Universe, pp. 174. Princeton University Press, Princeton (1980) Praton, E.A., Melott, A.L., McKee, M.Q.: Astrophys. J. 479, L15 (1997) Tegmark, M., et al.: Astrophys. J. 606, 702 (2004) Thomas, B.C., Melott, A.L., Feldman, H.A., Shandarin, S.F.: Astrophys. J. 601, 28 (2004) Yoshida, N., et al.: Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 325, 803 (2001)