Constraints on cosmic opacity and beyond the standard model physics from cosmological distance measurements

2010/04/12 by Anastasios Avgoustidis, Clare Burrage, Javier Redondo +3 · 6 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics #Axion #COSMIC cancer database #Cosmic background radiation #Cosmic microwave background #Cosmology #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark matter #Galaxy #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #Hubble's law #Luminosity #Opacity #Particle physics #Physics #Physics beyond the Standard Model #Quantum mechanics #Redshift #Standard Model (mathematical formulation) #astro-ph.CO #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2010/10/024

published as JCAP 1010:024,2010 · 29 pages, 13 figures

arxiv created 2010/04/12 · openalex publication_date 2010/10/22 · arxiv updated 2015/05/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06

Abstract

We update constraints on cosmic opacity by combining recent SN Type Ia data with the latest measurements of the Hubble expansion at redshifts between 0 and 2. The new constraint on the parameter parametrising deviations from the luminosity-angular diameter distance relation ( d L = d A (1+ z ) 2+ ), is = −0.04 −0.07 +0.08 (2-σ). For the redshift range between 0.2 and 0.35 this corresponds to an opacity Δτ < 0.012 (95% C.L.), a factor of 2 stronger than the previous constraint. Various models of beyond the standard model physics that predict violation of photon number conservation contribute to the opacity and can be equally constrained. In this paper we put new limits on axion-like particles, including chameleons, and mini-charged particles.

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