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Probing Dark Energy Inhomogeneities with Supernovae

Michael Blomqvist; Edvard Mortsell; Serena Nobili · 2008 · arXiv

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The finding, in one line

A search for correlations in current type Ia peak magnitudes over a large range of angular scales yields a null result.

Abstract (excerpt)

We discuss the possibility to identify anisotropic and/or inhomogeneous cosmological models using type Ia supernova data. A search for correlations in current type Ia peak magnitudes over a large range of angular scales yields a null result. However, the same analysis limited to supernovae at low redshift, shows a feeble anticorrelation at the two sigma level at angular scales of about 40 degrees. Upcoming data from, e.g., the SNLS (Supernova Legacy Survey) and the SDSS-II (SDSS: Sloan Digital Sky Survey) supernova searches will improve our limits on the size of - or possibly detect - possible

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