scholarly journals Dynamical spatial curvature as a fit to Type Ia supernovae

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (11) ◽  
pp. 1950143
Author(s):  
Célia Desgrange ◽  
Asta Heinesen ◽  
Thomas Buchert
Keyword(s):  
Broad Class ◽  
Information Criterion ◽  
Cosmic Acceleration ◽  
Acoustic Oscillations ◽  
Spatial Curvature ◽  
Light Curve Analysis ◽  
Type Ia ◽  
Positive Volume ◽  
Ia Supernovae

Few statements in cosmology can be made without assuming a cosmological model within which to interpret data. Statements about cosmic acceleration are no exception to this rule, and the inferred positive volume acceleration of our universe often quoted in the literature is valid in the context of the standard Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) class of spacetimes. Using the Joint Light-curve Analysis (JLA) catalogue of supernovae Type Ia (SNIa), we examine the fit of a class of exact scaling solutions with dynamical spatial curvature formulated in the framework of a scalar averaging scheme for relativistic inhomogeneous spacetimes. In these models, global volume acceleration may emerge as a result of the nonlocal variance between expansion rates of clusters and voids, the latter gaining volume dominance in the late-epoch universe. We find best-fit parameters for a scaling model of backreaction that are reasonably consistent with previously found constraints from SNIa, CMB, and baryon acoustic oscillations data. The quality of fit of the scaling solutions is indistinguishable from that of the ΛCDM model and the timescape cosmology from an Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) perspective. This indicates that a broad class of models can account for the [Formula: see text] expansion history.

PROBING COSMIC ACCELERATION WITH GALAXY REDSHIFT SURVEYS

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (10) ◽  
pp. 2109-2113
Author(s):  
LUIGI GUZZO
Keyword(s):  
Modern Science ◽  
Short Review ◽  
Cosmic Acceleration ◽  
Acoustic Oscillations ◽  
Redshift Surveys ◽  
The Galaxy ◽  
Type Ia ◽  
Redshift Survey ◽  
Alternative Scenarios ◽  
Ia Supernovae

Redshift surveys of galaxies beyond the local Universe (z ≫ 0.1) are opening up new possibilities to understanding the observed acceleration of cosmic expansion, one of the greatest mysteries of modern science. Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations in the galaxy power spectrum (or correlation function), provide us with a standard rod to measure the expansion history H(z). At the same time, redshift-space distortions in the clustering pattern due to galaxy peculiar motions are a measure of the growth rate of structure f(z). The combination of these two quantities, allows us to distinguish whether cosmic acceleration is due to the existence of a "dark energy" in the cosmic budget, or rather requires a modification of General Relativity. These two radically alternative scenarios are degenerate when considering H(z) alone, as yielded, e.g. by the Hubble diagram of Type Ia supernovae. In this short review paper I will mostly concentrate on the latter measurement, whose potential importance in this context has been recently highlighted. Current results are consistent with the simplest GR-based cosmological constant scenario, but error bars are still large. Detailed forecasts show that next-generation deep surveys optimizing the combination of large volumes and good galaxy sampling will be able to use redshift distortions as a key tool to understand the physical origin of cosmic acceleration. Among these, I introduce the newly started VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS) at the ESO VLT, which is building at [Formula: see text] a sample comparable to the local 2dFGRS. Expectations from even larger surveys planned from space-borne observatories such as EUCLID will also be mentioned.

scholarly journals Barrow Entropy Cosmology: an observational approach with a hint of stability analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (12) ◽  
pp. 032
Author(s):  
Genly Leon ◽  
Juan Magaña ◽  
A. Hernández-Almada ◽  
Miguel A. García-Aspeitia ◽  
Tomás Verdugo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dynamical System ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Cosmic Acceleration ◽  
Qualitative Description ◽  
Joint Analysis ◽  
Acoustic Oscillations ◽  
De Sitter ◽  
Dynamical Equations ◽  
Type Ia ◽  
Ia Supernovae

Abstract In this work, we use an observational approach and dynamical system analysis to study the cosmological model recently proposed by Saridakis (2020), which is based on the modification of the entropy-area black hole relation proposed by Barrow (2020). The Friedmann equations governing the dynamics of the Universe under this entropy modification can be calculated through the gravity-thermodynamics conjecture. We investigate two models, one considering only a matter component and the other including matter and radiation, which have new terms compared to the standard model sourcing the late cosmic acceleration. A Bayesian analysis is performed in which using five cosmological observations (observational Hubble data, type Ia supernovae, HII galaxies, strong lensing systems, and baryon acoustic oscillations) to constrain the free parameters of both models. From a joint analysis, we obtain constraints that are consistent with the standard cosmological paradigm within 2σ confidence level. In addition, a complementary dynamical system analysis using local and global variables is developed which allows obtaining a qualitative description of the cosmology. As expected, we found that the dynamical equations have a de Sitter solution at late times.

scholarly journals Evidence for anisotropy of cosmic acceleration

2019 ◽  
Vol 631 ◽  
pp. L13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacques Colin ◽  
Roya Mohayaee ◽  
Mohamed Rameez ◽  
Subir Sarkar
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Bulk Flow ◽  
Cosmic Acceleration ◽  
Microwave Background ◽  
Light Curve Analysis ◽  
Dominant Component ◽  
Dipole Component ◽  
Type Ia ◽  
Ia Supernovae ◽  
Dipolar Modulation

Observations reveal a “bulk flow” in the local Universe which is faster and extends to much larger scales than are expected around a typical observer in the standard ΛCDM cosmology. This is expected to result in a scale-dependent dipolar modulation of the acceleration of the expansion rate inferred from observations of objects within the bulk flow. From a maximum-likelihood analysis of the Joint Light-curve Analysis catalogue of Type Ia supernovae, we find that the deceleration parameter, in addition to a small monopole, indeed has a much bigger dipole component aligned with the cosmic microwave background dipole, which falls exponentially with redshift z: q0 = qm + qd.n̂ exp(-z/S). The best fit to data yields qd = −8.03 and S = 0.0262 (⇒d ∼ 100 Mpc), rejecting isotropy (qd = 0) with 3.9σ statistical significance, while qm = −0.157 and consistent with no acceleration (qm = 0) at 1.4σ. Thus the cosmic acceleration deduced from supernovae may be an artefact of our being non-Copernican observers, rather than evidence for a dominant component of “dark energy” in the Universe.

scholarly journals Low-redshift constraints on covariant canonical Gauge theory of gravity

2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Benisty ◽  
David Vasak ◽  
Johannes Kirsch ◽  
Jürgen Struckmeier
Keyword(s):  
Deformation Parameter ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Acoustic Oscillations ◽  
Spatial Curvature ◽  
Stress Energy ◽  
Type Ia ◽  
Ia Supernovae ◽  
Gauge Gravity ◽  
Gauge Theory Of Gravity ◽  
Combined Data

AbstractConstraints on the Covariant Canonical Gauge Gravity (CCGG) theory from low-redshift cosmology are studied. The formulation extends Einstein’s theory of General Relativity (GR) by a quadratic Riemann–Cartan term in the Lagrangian, controlled by a “deformation” parameter. In the Friedman universe this leads to an additional geometrical stress energy and promotes, due to the necessary presence of torsion, the cosmological constant to a time-dependent function. The MCMC analysis of the combined data sets of Type Ia Supernovae, Cosmic Chronometers and Baryon Acoustic Oscillations yields a fit that is well comparable with the $$\Lambda $$ Λ CDM results. The modifications implied in the CCGG approach turn out to be subdominant in the low-redshift cosmology. However, a non-zero spatial curvature and deformation parameter are shown to be consistent with observations.

Cosmological constraints on the variable modified Chaplygin gas model by using MCMC approach

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (08) ◽  
pp. 1550059 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian-bin Chen ◽  
Zhen-qi Liu ◽  
Lili Xing
Keyword(s):  
Apparent Horizon ◽  
Chaplygin Gas ◽  
Modified Chaplygin Gas ◽  
Acoustic Oscillations ◽  
Microwave Background ◽  
Mean Values ◽  
Cosmological Constraints ◽  
Variable Modified Chaplygin Gas ◽  
Type Ia ◽  
Ia Supernovae

We investigate the cosmological constraints on the variable modified Chaplygin gas (VMCG) model from the latest observational data: Union2 dataset of Type Ia supernovae (SNIa), the observational Hubble data (OHD), the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) and the cosmic microwave background (CMB) data. By using the Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method, we obtain the mean values of parameters in the flat model: [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]. Furthermore, we investigate the thermodynamical properties of VMCG model at apparent horizon, event horizon and particle horizon respectively.

scholarly journals Model-independent cosmic acceleration and redshift-dependent intrinsic luminosity in type-Ia supernovae

2019 ◽  
Vol 625 ◽  
pp. A15 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Tutusaus ◽  
B. Lamine ◽  
A. Blanchard
Keyword(s):  
Spline Interpolation ◽  
High Redshift ◽  
Cosmic Acceleration ◽  
Expansion Rate ◽  
Type Ia Supernovae ◽  
Type Ia ◽  
Model Independent ◽  
Ia Supernovae ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Intrinsic Luminosity

Context. The cosmological concordance model (ΛCDM) is the current standard model in cosmology thanks to its ability to reproduce the observations. The first observational evidence for this model appeared roughly 20 years ago from the type-Ia supernovae (SNIa) Hubble diagram from two different groups. However, there has been some debate in the literature concerning the statistical treatment of SNIa, and their stature as proof of cosmic acceleration. Aims. In this paper we relax the standard assumption that SNIa intrinsic luminosity is independent of redshift, and examine whether it may have an impact on our cosmological knowledge and more precisely on the accelerated nature of the expansion of the universe. Methods. To maximise the scope of this study, we do not specify a given cosmological model, but we reconstruct the expansion rate of the universe through a cubic spline interpolation fitting the observations of the different cosmological probes: SNIa, baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), and the high-redshift information from the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Results. We show that when SNIa intrinsic luminosity is not allowed to vary as a function of redshift, cosmic acceleration is definitely proven in a model-independent approach. However, allowing for redshift dependence, a nonaccelerated reconstruction of the expansion rate is able to fit, at the same level of ΛCDM, the combination of SNIa and BAO data, both treating the BAO standard ruler rd as a free parameter (not entering on the physics governing the BAO), and adding the recently published prior from CMB observations. We further extend the analysis by including the CMB data. In this case we also consider a third way to combine the different probes by explicitly computing rd from the physics of the early universe, and we show that a nonaccelerated reconstruction is able to nicely fit this combination of low- and high-redshift data. We also check that this reconstruction is compatible with the latest measurements of the growth rate of matter perturbations. We finally show that the value of the Hubble constant (H0) predicted by this reconstruction is in tension with model-independent measurements. Conclusions. We present a model-independent reconstruction of a nonaccelerated expansion rate of the universe that is able to fit all the main background cosmological probes nicely. However, the predicted value of H0 is in tension with recent direct measurements. Our analysis points out that a final reliable and consensual value for H0 is critical to definitively prove cosmic acceleration in a model-independent way.

A new pressure-parametric cosmological model

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (25) ◽  
pp. 2050209
Author(s):  
Yan-Hong Yao ◽  
Xin-He Meng
Keyword(s):  
Scalar Fields ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
Acoustic Oscillations ◽  
Dark Sector ◽  
Type Ia ◽  
Phantom Scalar ◽  
Acceleration Of The Universe ◽  
Expansion Of The Universe ◽  
Ia Supernovae ◽  
The Universe

We put forward a pressure-parametric model to study the tiny deviation from cosmological constant(CC) behavior of the dark sector accelerating the expansion of the Universe. Data from cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies, baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO), Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) observation are applied to constrict the model parameters. The constraint results show that such model suffers with [Formula: see text] tension as well. To realize this model more physically, we reconstruct it with the quintessence and phantom scalar fields, and find out that although the model predicts a quintessence-induced acceleration of the Universe at past and present, at some moment of the future, dark energy’s density have a disposition to increase.

scholarly journals Constraints on $$\sigma _8$$ and degeneracies from linear Nash-Greene perturbations in subhorizon scale

2020 ◽  
Vol 80 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abraão J. S. Capistrano
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Present Model ◽  
Information Criterion ◽  
Matter Content ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Acoustic Oscillations ◽  
Growth Data ◽  
Microwave Background ◽  
Percentage Difference ◽  
Type Ia

AbstractUsing a joint statistical analysis, we test a four-dimensional FLRW model embedded in a five-dimensional bulk based on the Nash-Greene embedding theorem. Performing a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) modelling, we combine observational data sets as those of the recent growth data, the best-fit Planck2018/$$\varLambda $$ Λ CDM parameters on the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) measurements, the Pantheon Supernovae type Ia and the Hubble parameter data. From linear Nash-Greene fluctuations of the metric, we show the related perturbed equations in longitudinal Newtonian gauge to obtain the evolution of growth matter. A mild alleviation may be obtained from the degeneracies on the model parameter analyzing the $$\sigma $$ σ tension between the growth amplitude factor and the matter content in the plane $$(\sigma _8$$ ( σ 8 -$$\varOmega _m)$$ Ω m ) on the observations from CMB and Large Scale Structure (LSS) probes. The Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) is also applied and we find a relative statistical consistence of the present model with both $$\varLambda $$ Λ CDM and wCDM models lower than 1$$\%$$ % of percentage difference at early times on the evolution of the Hubble function H(z). We also apply the Om(z) diagnosis to distinguish the present model from $$\varLambda $$ Λ CDM and wCDM models.

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