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Constraints on the Generalized Chaplygin Gas Model from Gamma-Ray Bursts

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2011-08-19 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

We study the Generalized Chaplygin gas model (GCGM) using Gamma-ray bursts as cosmological probes. In order to avoid the so-called circularity problem we use cosmology-independent data set and Bayesian statistics to impose constraints on the model parameters. We observe that a negative value for the parameter α\alpha is favoured if we adopt a flat Universe and the estimated value of the parameter H0H_{0} is lower than that found in literature.

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@article{arxiv.1004.5585,
  title  = {Constraints on the Generalized Chaplygin Gas Model from Gamma-Ray Bursts},
  author = {R. C. Freitas and S. V. B. Gonçalves and H. E. S. Velten},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.5585},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

10 pages, 29 figures, accepted for publication in Physics Letters B