particle horizon vs event horizon
Boud Roukema
boud w astro.uni.torun.pl
Śro, 6 Mar 2002, 20:04:04 CET
The simplest definition I found of the difference between the particle
horizon and the event horizon is here:
http://iapetus.phy.umist.ac.uk/Teaching/Cosmology/Metric.html
The particle horizon is defined as the largest comoving distance
from which light can have reached us - today.
The event horizon is defined as the largest comoving distance from
which light will ever reach us - at any time in the future.
To have an event horizon, a universe needs to expand "very quickly",
e.g. in a de Sitter universe, whose scale factor follows a pure
(positive) exponential:
http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Watson/Watson6_1.html
Apparently the definitions come from Rindler (1956, MNRAS, 116, 662):
http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Seitter/Seitter3_2_2.html
but the figure is not clear to me.
Boud
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