Abstract
Analytic expressions for distance-redshift relations that have been corrected for the effects of inhomogeneities in the Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) mass density are given in terms of Heun functions and are used to illustrate the significance of inhomogeneities on a determination of the mass parameter Ωm and the cosmological constant Λ. The values of these parameters inferred from a given set of observations depend on the fractional amount of matter in inhomogeneities and can significantly differ from those obtained by using the standard magnitude-redshift (m-z) result for pure dust FLRW models. As an example, a determination of Ωm made by applying the homogeneous distance-redshift relation to SN 1997ap at z = 0.83 could be as much as 50% lower than its true value.
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