/* cosmodis - A Cosmological Distances Program - version 1.1 by Richard Powell - http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/ This is a simple piece of code to provide comoving, angular diameter, luminosity, and light travel distances for any given redshift. The Hubble constant (H0), Omega_matter (OM) and Omega_lambda (OL) are defined within the body of the program and can be adjusted to your favourite values. For a summary of the formulae used in this program, see: David Hogg, Distance Measures in Cosmology, (2000), astro-ph/9905116. http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9905116 The standard command for compiling this program in Linux is: cc cosmodis.c -lm -ocosmodis This program is in the Public Domain. There is no copyright. */ #include #include #define c 299792.458 int main() { float H0 = 70; // Hubble constant (km/s/Mpc) - adjust according to taste float OM = 0.27; // Omega(matter) - adjust according to taste float OL = 0.73; // Omega(lambda) - adjust according to taste float OR = 0.42/(H0*H0); // Omega(radiation) - this is the usual textbook value long i; long n=10000; // Number of steps in the integral float OK = 1-OM-OR-OL; // Omega(k) defined as 1-OM-OR-OL float HD = 3.2616*c/H0/1000; // Hubble distance (billions of light years). See section 2 of Hogg float z, a, adot; // Redshift "z", Scale Factor "a", and its derivative "adot" float DC, DCC=0, DT, DTT=0, DA, DL, DM; float age, size; // The age and size of the universe printf("Enter Redshift: "); // Ask for a redshift z scanf("%f",&z); for(i=n; i>=1; i--) { // This loop is the numerical integration a = (i-0.5)/n; // Steadily decrease the scale factor // Comoving formula (See section 4 of Hogg, but I've added a radiation term too): adot = a*sqrt(OM*pow(1/a,3)+OK*pow(1/a,2)+OL+OR*pow(1/a,4)); // Note that "a" is equivalent to 1/(1+z) DCC = DCC + 1/(a*adot)/n; // Running total of the comoving distance DTT = DTT + 1/adot/n; // Running total of the light travel time (see section 10 of Hogg) if (a>=1/(1+z)) { // Collect DC and DT until the correct scale is reached DC = DCC; // Comoving distance DC DT = DTT; // Light travel time DT } } // Transverse comoving distance DM from section 5 of Hogg: if (OK>0.0001) DM=(1/sqrt(OK))*sinh(sqrt(OK)*DC); else if (OK<-0.0001) DM=(1/sqrt(fabs(OK)))*sin(sqrt(fabs(OK))*DC); else DM=DC; age = HD*DTT; // Age of the universe (billions of years) size = HD*DCC; // Comoving radius of the observable universe DC = HD*DC; // Comoving distance DA = HD*DM/(1+z); // Angular diameter distance (section 6 of Hogg) DL = HD*DM*(1+z); // Luminosity distance (section 7 of Hogg) DT = HD*DT; // Light travel distance printf("-------------------------------------------------------------------\n"); printf("For Redshift %.3f, (Ho=%.1fkm/s/Mpc, Omega_M=%.2f, Omega_L=%.2f):\n",z,H0,OM,OL); printf("-------------------------------------------------------------------\n"); printf("* Age of the universe now = %.3f Gyr\n",age); printf("* Age of the universe then = %.6f Gyr\n",age-DT); printf("* Comoving horizon of the universe now = %.3f Gyr\n",size); printf("* Comoving horizon of the universe then = %.3f Gyr\n",size/(1+z)); printf("* Comoving distance of the source now = %.3f Gly\n",DC); printf("* Comoving distance of the source then = %.3f Gly\n",DC/(1+z)); // In a flat universe, this is equal to DA printf("* Angular Diameter distance = %.3f Gly\n",DA); printf("* Luminosity distance = %.3f Gly\n",DL); printf("* Light Travel Time Distance = %.3f Gly\n",DT); printf("-------------------------------------------------------------------\n"); }