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ANGSIZ: A general and practical method for calculating cosmological distances
Helbig, Phillip; Kayser, Rainer; Schramm, Thomas
1996
 

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Abstract :
[en] The calculation of distances is of fundamental importance in extragalactic astronomy and cosmology. However, no practical implementation for the general case has previously been available. We derive a second-order differential equation for the angular size distance valid not only in all homogeneous Friedmann-Lemaitre cosmological models, parametrised by lambda_{0} and Omega_{0}, but also in inhomogeneous 'on-average' Friedmann-Lemaitre models, where the inhomogeneity is given by the (in the general case redshift-dependent) parameter eta. Since most other distances can be obtained trivially from the angular size distance, and since the differential equation can be efficiently solved numerically, this offers for the first time a practical method for calculating distances in a large class of cosmological models. We also briefly discuss our numerical implementation, which is publicly available.
Disciplines :
Space science, astronomy & astrophysics
Author, co-author :
Helbig, Phillip  ;  Hamburger Sternwarte, Gojenbergsweg 112, D-21029 Hamburg-Bergedorf, Germany
Kayser, Rainer
Schramm, Thomas
Language :
English
Title :
ANGSIZ: A general and practical method for calculating cosmological distances
Publication date :
07 March 1996
Technical description :
Fortran code
Commentary :
Fortran code to calculate the angular-size distance following the paper by Kayser, Helbig and Schramm
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