Current constraints on the epoch of cosmic acceleration
Autor: | J.C. Carvalho, B. Santos, J. S. Alcaniz |
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Rok vydání: | 2011 |
Předmět: |
Physics
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) COSMIC cancer database Deceleration parameter Cosmic microwave background FOS: Physical sciences Astronomy Astronomy and Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics Astrophysics Curvature General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Cosmology Redshift High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Acceleration Supernova High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics |
Zdroj: | Astroparticle Physics. 35:17-20 |
ISSN: | 0927-6505 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2011.04.002 |
Popis: | The cosmographic expansion history of the universe is investigated by using the 557 type Ia supernovae from the Union2 Compilation set along with the current estimates involving the product of the CMB acoustic scale $\ell_{A}$ and the BAO peak at two different redshifts. Using a well-behaved parameterization for the deceleration parameter, $q(z) = q_0 + q_1z/(1 + z)$, we estimate the accelerating redshift $z_{acc}=-q_0/(q_0 + q_1)$ (at which the universe switches from deceleration to acceleration) and investigate the influence of a non-vanishing spatial curvature on these estimates. We also use the asymptotic value of $q(z)$ at high-$z$ to place more restrictive bounds on the model parameters $q_0$ and $q_1$, which results in a more precise determination of the epoch of cosmic acceleration. 4 pages, 2 figures, LaTeX |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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