64 citations · 80 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for
3 papers
astro-ph.CO2015★ 16 cited
CMB seen through random Swiss Cheese
Mikko Lavinto, Syksy Rasanen
We consider a Swiss Cheese model with a random arrangement of Lemaître--Tolman--Bondi holes in CDM cheese. We study two kinds of holes with radius Mpc, with eithe…
astro-ph.CO2014★ 64 cited
Can a supervoid explain the Cold Spot?
Seshadri Nadathur, Mikko Lavinto, Shaun Hotchkiss +1
The discovery of a void of size Mpc and average density contrast of aligned with the Cold Spot direction has been recently reported. It has been argued…
astro-ph.CO2013
Average expansion rate and light propagation in a cosmological Tardis spacetime
Mikko Lavinto, Syksy Rasanen, Sebastian J. Szybka
We construct the first exact statistically homogeneous and isotropic cosmological solution in which inhomogeneity has a significant effect on the expansion rate. The universe is mo…