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A global fit study on the new agegraphic dark energy model

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2013-01-30 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We perform a global fit study on the new agegraphic dark energy (NADE) model in a non-flat universe by using the MCMC method with the full CMB power spectra data from the WMAP 7-yr observations, the SNIa data from Union2.1 sample, BAO data from SDSS DR7 and WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey, and the latest measurements of H0H_0 from HST. We find that the value of Ωk0\Omega_{k0} is greater than 0 at least at the 3σ\sigma confidence levels (CLs), which implies that the NADE model distinctly favors an open universe. Besides, our results show that the value of the key parameter of NADE model, n=2.6730.0770.1510.222+0.053+0.127+0.199n=2.673^{+0.053+0.127+0.199}_{-0.077-0.151-0.222}, at the 1--3σ\sigma CLs, where its best-fit value is significantly smaller than those obtained in previous works. We find that the reason leading to such a change comes from the different SNIa samples used. Our further test indicates that there is a distinct tension between the Union2 sample of SNIa and other observations, and the tension will be relieved once the Union2 sample is replaced by the Union2.1 sample. So, the new constraint result of the NADE model obtained in this work is more reasonable than before.

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@article{arxiv.1212.0300,
  title  = {A global fit study on the new agegraphic dark energy model},
  author = {Jing-Fei Zhang and Yun-He Li and Xin Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.0300},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

6 pages, 3 figures; typos corrected