Testing the Etherington distance duality relation at higher redshifts: Combined radio quasar and gravitational wave data
Abstract
In this paper, we analyze the implications of the latest cosmological data sets to test the Etherington distance duality relation (DDR), which connects the luminosity distance DL and angular diameter distance DA at the same redshift. For DL, we consider the simulated data of gravitational waves from the third-generation gravitational wave detector [the Einstein Telescope (ET)], which can be considered as standard candles (or standard siren), while the angular diameter distances DA are derived from the newly compiled sample of compact radio quasars observed by very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI), which represents a new type of cosmological standard ruler. Alleviating the absorbtion and scattering effects of dust in the Universe, this will create a valuable opportunity to directly test DDR at much higher precision with the combination of gravitational wave (GW) and electromagnetic (EM) signals. Our results show that, with the combination of the current radio quasar observations, the duality-distance relation can be verified at the precision of 10-2. Moreover, the Einstein Telescope would produce more robust constraints on the validity of such distance duality relation (at the precision of 10-3), with a larger sample of compact milliarcsecond radio quasars detected in future VLBI surveys.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- March 2019
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.99.063507
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1902.01988
- Bibcode:
- 2019PhRvD..99f3507Q
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
- E-Print:
- 9 pages, 4 figures