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A Monte Carlo Simulation Framework for Testing Cosmological Models

Authors: Yuri Heymann

We tested alternative cosmologies using Monte Carlo simulations based on the sampling method of the zCosmos galactic survey. The survey encompasses a collection of observable galaxies with respective redshifts that have been obtained for a given spectroscopic area of the sky. Using a cosmological model, we can convert the redshifts into light-travel times and, by slicing the survey into small redshift buckets, compute a curve of galactic density over time. Because foreground galaxies obstruct the images of more distant galaxies, we simulated the theoretical galactic density curve using an average galactic radius. By comparing the galactic density curves of the simulations with that of the survey, we could assess the cosmologies. We applied the test to the expanding-universe cosmology of de Sitter and to a dichotomous cosmology.

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[v1] 2014-03-12 05:48:33
[v2] 2014-03-13 13:48:55 (removed)
[v3] 2014-03-14 16:15:09 (removed)
[v4] 2014-03-15 08:54:59 (removed)
[v5] 2014-03-15 15:24:44 (removed)
[v6] 2014-04-06 03:05:08 (removed)
[v7] 2014-04-06 04:10:10
[v8] 2014-09-19 12:34:56

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