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Yu. V. Baryshev

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A crucial test of the phantom closed cosmological model

We suggest a crucial direct-observational test for measuring distinction between the standard $Λ$CDM model and recently proposed phantom dark energy positive curvature cosmological model. The test is based on the fundamental distance--flux--redshift relation for general Friedmann models. It does not depend on the CMBR data, on the large-scale structure growth models, and also on the value of the Hubble constant $H_0$. Our crucial test can be performed by future gamma-ray burst observations with THESEUS space mission and by using gravitational-wave standard siren observations with modern advanced LIGO--Virgo and also forthcoming LISA detectors.

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THESEUS$-$BTA cosmological tests using Multimessenger Gamma-Ray Bursts observations

Modern Multimessenger Astronomy is a powerful instrument for performing cosmological crucial tests of the Standard Cosmological Model in the wide redshift interval up to $z \sim 10$. This is principally important for discussion related to discrepancies between local and global measurements of cosmological parameters. We present a review of multimessenger gamma-ray burst observations currently conducted and planed for THESEUS$-$BTA cooperative program. Such observations give a unique opportunity to test the fundamental foundations of cosmological models: gravitation theory; cosmological principle of homogeneity and isotropy of large-scale distribution of matter; and space expansion paradigm. Important role of various selection effects leading to systematic distortions of true cosmological relations is discussed.

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High Redshift Long Gamma-Ray Bursts Hubble Diagram as a Test of Basic Cosmological Relations

We examine the prospects of the high redshift Long Gamma Ray Bursts (LGRB) Hubble Diagram as a test of the basic cosmological principles. Analysis of the Hubble Diagram allows us to test several fundamental cosmological principles using the directly observed flux-distance-redshift relation. Modern LGRB data, together with the correlation between the spectral peak energy and the isotropic-equivalent radiated energy (the so-called Amati relation) can be used for construction of the Hubble Diagram at the model-independent level. We emphasise observational selection effects, which inevitably exist and distort the theoretically predicted relations. An example is the weak and strong gravitational lensing bias effect for high redshift LGRB in the presence of limited observational sensitivity (Malmquist bias). After bias correction, there is a tendency to vacuum dominated models with $Ω_Λ\rightarrow 0.9$, $Ω_\text{m} \rightarrow 0.1$. Forthcoming gamma-ray observations by the space THESEUS mission together with ground and space based multimessenger facilities will allow us to improve essentially the restrictions on alternative basic principles of cosmological models.

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S-stars motion around relativistic compact object Sgr A*

A review of modern VLTI observations of the orbital motion of closest stars to the relativistic compact object Sgr A* and its ability to test gravitation theories in the conditions of Post-Newtonian approximation. The observed orbital parameters, second order Doppler effect and gravitational redshift, measured for several S-stars, are compared with theoretical PN predictions.

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Spatial Distribution of Gamma-Ray Burst Sources

The spatial distribution of sources of gamma-ray bursts (GRB) with known red shifts is analyzed by the conditional density and pairwise distance methods. The sample of GRB is based on data from the Swift mission and contains fluxes, coordinates, and red shifts for 384 GRB sources. Selection effects that distort the true source distribution are taken into account by comparing the observed distribution with fractal and uniform model catalogs. The Malmqvist effect is modeled using an approximation for the visible luminosity function of the GRB. The case of absorption in the galactic plane is also examined.This approach makes it possible to study the spatial structure of the entire sample at one time without artificial truncations. The estimated fractal dimensionality is $D=2.55\pm0.06$ on scales of $2\div6$ Gpc.

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LIGO-Virgo events localization as a test of gravitational wave polarization state

The detection of the gravitational wave events GW150914, GW151226, LVT 151012 and GW170104 by the Advanced LIGO antennas has opened a new possibility for the study of fundamental physics of gravitational interaction. We suggest a new method for determining the polarization state of a gravitational wave, which is independent of the nature of a GW source. For this, we calculate the allowed sky positions of GW sources along apparent circles. This is done for each polarization state by considering the sensitivity pattern of each antenna and relative amplitudes of detected signals. The positions of circles are calculated with respect to the line joining both LIGO antennas using the observed arrival time delay of the signal between them. The apparent circles (AC) on the sky for allowed positions of the GW sources for the GW150914, GW151226 and LVT151012 events are parallel to the plane of the disc-like large scale structure known as the Local Super-Cluster (LSC) of galaxies which extends up to radius $\sim 100$ Mpc and having thickness $\sim 30$ Mpc. For the GW170104 event, the AC is perpendicular to the LSC plane but the predicted position of the source may also belong to the LSC plane, which is consistent with detection of possible optical counterpart ATLAS17aeu. The next aLIGO-aVirgo observing runs are proposed to test the possibility of clustering the GW sources along the LSC plane.

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Large-Scale Fluctuations in the Number Density of Galaxies in Independent Surveys of Deep Fields

New arguments supporting the reality of large-scale fluctuations in the density of the visible matter in deep galaxy surveys are presented. A statistical analysis of the radial distributions of galaxies in the COSMOS and HDF-N deep fields is presented. Independent spectral and photometric surveys exist for each field, carried out in different wavelength ranges and using different observing methods. Catalogs of photometric redshifts in the optical (COSMOS-Zphot) and infrared (UltraVISTA) were used for the COSMOS field in the redshift interval $0.1 < z < 3.5$, as well as the zCOSMOS (10kZ) spectroscopic survey and the XMM-COSMOS and ALHAMBRA-F4 photometric redshift surveys. The HDFN-Zphot and ALHAMBRA-F5 catalogs of photometric redshifts were used for the HDF-N field. The Pearson correlation coefficient for the fluctuations in the numbers of galaxies obtained for independent surveys of the same deep field reaches $R = 0.70 \pm 0.16$. The presence of this positive correlation supports the reality of fluctuations in the density of visible matter with sizes of up to 1 000 Mpc and amplitudes of up to 20% at redshifts $z \sim 2$. The absence of correlations between the fluctuations in different fields (the correlation coefficient between COSMOS and HDF-N is $R = -0.20 \pm 0.31$) testifies to the independence of structures visible in different directions on the celestial sphere. This also indicates an absence of any influence from universal systematic errors (such as "spectral voids"), which could imitate the detection of correlated structures.

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Field Fractal Cosmological Model As an Example of Practical Cosmology Approach

The idea of the global gravitational effect as the source of cosmological redshift was considered by de Sitter (1916, 1917), Eddington (1923), Tolman (1929) and Bondi (1947). Also Hubble (1929) called the discovered distance-redshift relation as "De Sitter effect". For homogeneous matter distribution cosmological gravitational redshift is proportional to square of distance: z_grav ~ r^2. However for a fractal matter distribution having the fractal dimension D=2 the global gravitational redshift is the linear function of distance: z_grav ~ r, which gives possibility for interpretation of the Hubble law without the space expansion. Here the field gravity fractal cosmological model (FGF) is presented, which based on two initial principles. The first assumption is that the Feynman's field gravity approach describes the gravitational interaction, which delivers a natural basis for the conceptual unity of all fundamental physical interactions within the framework of the relativistic and quantum fields in Minkowski space. The second hypothesis is that the spatial distribution of gravitating matter is a fractal at all scales up to the Hubble radius. The fractal dimension of matter distribution is assumed to be D = 2, which implies that the global gravitational redshift is the explanation of the observed linear Hubble law. In the frame of the FGF all three phenomena - the cosmic background radiation, the fractal large scale structure, and the Hubble law, - could be the consequence of a unique large scale structure evolution process of the initially homogeneous ordinary matter without nonbaryonic matter and dark energy.

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The Non-Uniform Distribution of Galaxies from Data of the SDSS DR7 Survey

We have analyzed the spatial distribution of galaxies from the release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey of galactic redshifts (SDSS DR7), applying the complete correlation function (conditional density), two-point conditional density (cylinder), and radial density methods. Our analysis demonstrates that the conditional density has a power-law form for scales lengths 0.5-30 Mpc/h, with the power-law corresponding to the fractal dimension D = 2.2+-0.2; for scale lengths in excess of 30 Mpc/h, it enters an essentially flat regime, as is expected for a uniform distribution of galaxies. However, in the analysis applying the cylinder method, the power-law character with D = 2.0+-0.3 persists to scale lengths of 70 Mpc/h. The radial density method reveals inhomogeneities in the spatial distribution of galaxies on scales of 200 Mpc/h with a density contrast of two, confirming that translation invariance is violated in the distribution of galaxies to 300 Mpc/h, with the sampling depth of the SDSS galaxies being 600 Mpc/h.

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Study of Faint Galaxies in the Field of GRB 021004

We present an analysis of BVRcIc observations of the field sized around 4' x 4' centered at the host galaxy of the gamma-ray burst GRB 021004 with the 6-m BTA telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences. We measured the magnitudes and constructed the color diagrams for 311 galaxies detected in the field (S/N > 3). The differential and integral counts of galaxies up to the limit, corresponding to 28.5 (B), 28.0 (V), 27.0 (Rc), 26.5 (Ic) were computed. We compiled the galaxy catalog, consisting of 183 objects, for which the photometric redshifts up to the limiting magnitudes 26.0 (B), 25.5 (V), 25.0 (Rc), 24.5 (Ic) were determined using the HyperZ code. We then examined the radial distribution of galaxies based on the z estimates. We have built the curves expected in the case of a uniform distribution of galaxies in space, and obtained the estimates for the size and contrast of the possible super-large-scale structures, which are accessible with the observations of this type.

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Expanding Space: The Root of Conceptual Problems of the Cosmological Physics

The space expansion physics contains several paradoxes which were clearly demonstrated by Edward Harrison (1981, 1995, 2000), who emphasized that the cooling of homogeneous hot gas (including photon gas of CBR) in the standard cosmological model based on the violation of energy conservation by the expanding space. In modern version of SCM the term "space expansion" actually means continuous creation of vacuum, something that leads to conceptual problems. Recent discussion by Francis, Barnes, James, and Lewis (2007) on the physical sense of the increasing distance to a receding galaxy without motion of the galaxy is just a particular consequence of the arising paradoxes. Here we present an analysis of the following conceptual problems of the SCM: the violation of energy conservation for local comoving volumes, the exact Newtonian form of the Friedmann equation, the absence of an upper limit on the receding velocity of galaxies which can be greater than the speed of light, and the presence of the linear Hubble law deeply inside inhomogeneous galaxy distribution. The common cause of these paradoxes is the geometrical description of gravity, where there is no a well defined concept of the energy-momentum tensor for the gravitational field, no energy quanta - gravitons, and no energy-momentum conservation for matter plus gravity because gravity is not a material field.

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Constraining the nature of galaxy haloes with gravitational mesolensing of QSOs by halo substructure objects

Gravitational lensing of background compact objects like active galactic nuclei and quasars, by extended intermediate mass lenses such as globular clusters and and dark matter clumps with masses 10^5 - 10^8 M_sun, is considered. It is shown that observational study of the galaxy-quasar's associations is a powerful direct observational test of the nature of massive galaxy haloes. Optical interferometric observations with VLTI and Keck instruments are able to constrain masses and number of substructure halo objects. Evidence of gravitational lensing by globular clusters in haloes of spiral and elliptical galaxies is presented.

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A search for super-large structures in deep galaxy surveys

Recent extensive, multi-color deep surveys of galaxies open a possibility to get observational estimation of sizes for the largest structures in the Universe. Photometric redshift accuracy (about 0.03(1+z)) allows directly study clustering at scales about 1000 Mpc. Thanks to large number of galaxies in each redshift bin one may detect super-large structures if they really exist. Here we show that the observed behavior of the redshift distribution of galaxies in deep surveys such as HUDF and FDF is consistent with existence of super-large structures of luminous matter with scales about 2000 Mpc. We detect a large underdense region in radial galaxy distribution at redshift interval z=1.2 - 2.2 which separate our "Local Hubble Volume" from the neighboring over-density region at z=2.2 - 3.5. This result can also explain the observed deficiency of gamma ray sources at redshift about 2. Observational test on the reality of the supper-large structures may be obtained by organizing sky covering net (cells about 10n x 10n degrees) of very deep narrow angle (1n x 1n arc-minutes) multi-band photometric surveys of galaxies which is achievable for large ground-based telescopes.

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Energy-Momentum of the Gravitational Field: Crucial Point for Gravitation Physics and Cosmology

A history of the problem of mathematical and physical definition for the energy-momentum of the gravity field is reviewed. As it was noted 90 years ago by Hilbert (1917), Einstein (1918), Schrodinger (1918) and Bauer (1918) within Geometrical Gravity approach (General Relativity) there is no tensor characteristics of the energy-momentum for the gravity field. Landau & Lifshitz (1971) called this quantity pseudo-tensor of energy-momentum and noted that Einstein's equations does not express the energy conservation for matter plus gravity field. This has crucial consequences for gravity physics and cosmology, such as negative energy density for static gravity field and violation of energy conservation in expanding space. However there is alternative Field Gravity approach for description of gravitation as a symmetric tensor field in Minkowski space, which is similar to description of all other physical interactions and based on well-defined positive, localizable energy-momentum of the gravity field. This relativistic quantum Field Gravity approach was partially developed by Firz & Pauli (1939), Birkhoff (1944), Thirring (1961), Kalman (1961), Feynman (1963) and others. Here it is shown that existence of well-defined positive energy-momentum of the gravity field leads to radical changes in gravity physics and cosmology, including such new possibilities as two-component nature of gravity - attraction (spin 2) and repulsion (spin 0), absence of black holes and singularities, scalar gravitational radiation caused by spherically symmetric gravitational collapse.

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New Possibilities for Observational Distinction Between Geometrical and Field Gravity Theories

Crucial observational tests of gravity physics are reviewed. Such tests are able to clarify the key question on the nature of gravitational interaction: is gravity the curvature of space? or is gravity a matter field in Minkowski flat space as other physical forces? Up to now all actually performed experiments do not allow to distinguish between these two alternatives in gravity physics. The existence of well-defined positive energy-momentum of the gravity field in Poincare-Feynman approach leads to radical changes in gravity physics and cosmology which may be tested by laboratory experiments and astrophysical observations. New possibilities for observational distinction between geometrical general relativity and field gravity theories are discussed. Among them: the contribution of the scalar repulsive force into Newtonian gravitational interaction, post-Newtonian translational motion of rotating bodies, gravitational deflection of light by small mass bodies, scalar gravitational radiation from spherically pulsating stars, existence of limiting radius, surface, magnetic field for massive bodies and absence of singularities and horizons for relativistic compact objects.

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Detection of dark energy near the Local Group with the Hubble Space Telescope

We report the detection of dark energy near the Milky Way made with precision observations of the local Hubble flow of expansion. We estimate the local density of dark energy and find that it is near, if not exactly equal to, the global dark energy density. The result is independent of, compatible with, and complementary to the horizon-scale observations in which dark energy was first discovered. Together with the cosmological concordance data, our result forms direct observational evidence for the Einstein antigravity as a universal phenomenon -- in the same sense as the Newtonian universal gravity.

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Observational Constraints on the Angular and Spectral Distributions of Photons in Gamma-Ray Burst Sources

The typical spectra of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are discussed in the context of the compactness problem for GRB sources and how it is resolved in the popular fireball model. In particular, observational (model-independent) constraints on the collimation of the gamma-rays and the dependence of the collimation angle on the photon energy are considered. The fact that the threshold for the creation of $e^{-}e^{+}$ pairs depends on the angle between the momenta of the annihilating photons in the GRB source provides an alternative solution to the compactness problem. A new approach to explaining GRBs, taking into account the angular dependence for pair creation, is proposed, and the main features of a scenario describing a GRB source with a total (photon) energy smaller or of the order of $10^{49}$ erg are laid out. Thus, we are dealing with an alternative to an ultra-relativistic fireball, if it turns out (as follows from observations) that all "long" GRBs are associated with normal (not peculiar) core-collapse supernovae. The effects of radiation pressure and the formation of jets as a consequence of even a small amount of anisotropy in the total radiation field in a (compact) GRB source are examined in this alternative model. Possible energy release mechanisms acting in regions smaller or of the order of $10^{8}$ cm in size (a compact model for a GRB) are discussed. New observational evidence for such compact energy release in the burst source is considered.

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Collimated high-energy photons and others possible observational effects of the photon angular and spectral distribution in gamma-ray bursts sources

Typical observational gamma-ray burst (GRB) spectra are discussed and, in this connection, what is the origin of the compactness problem and how it was solved at first. If the threshold for $e^{-}e^{+}$ pair production depends on an angle between photon momenta, then another solution of the compactness problem is possible. We discuss a possibility of the $γ$-rays collimation and the dependence of photon beaming on photon energies. The list of basic assumptions of the scenario describing the GRB source with energy $< 10^{49}$ ergs are adduced: the matter is about an alternative to the ultrarelativistic fireball if {\it all} long-duration GRBs are related or physically connected with {\it normal/unpeculiar} core-collapse supernovae (SNe). Namely, we consider the questions about radiation pressure and how the jet arises on account of even small asymmetry of the radiation field in a compact GRB source. The possibility of a new approach to explanation of GRB phenomenon is shown. Possible mechanisms of their generation in regions of size $< 10^8$cm are discussed (a compact model of GRBs). Observational consequences of the compact GRB energy release are considered.

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