Qi 2008 SN Ia 和GRB一起限制暗能量参数

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arXiv:0803.4304 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Constraining the evolution of dark energy with type Ia supernovae and gamma-ray bursts

Authors: Shi Qi, Fa-Yin Wang, Tan Lu

Comments: 7 pages, 17 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

The behavior of the dark energy equation of state (EOS) is crucial in distinguishing different cosmological models. With a model independent approach, we constrain the possible evolution of the dark energy EOS. Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) of redshifts up to $z>6$ are used, in addition to type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). We separate the redshifts into 4 bins and assume a constant EOS parameter for dark energy in each bin. The EOS parameters are decorrelated by diagonalizing the covariance matrix. And the evolution of dark energy is estimated out of the uncorrelated EOS parameters. By including GRB luminosity data, we significantly reduce the confidence interval of the uncorrelated EOS parameter whose contribution mostly comes from the redshift bin of $0.5 1.8$.>