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Cosmological constraints from calibrated $E_p-E_{iso}$ gamma-ray burst correlation by using DESI 2024 data release

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2024-08-06 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Recent outcomes by the DESI Collaboration have shed light on a possible slightly evolving dark energy, challenging the standard Λ\LambdaCDM paradigm. To better understand dark energy nature, high-redshift observations like gamma-ray burst data become essential for mapping the universe expansion history, provided they are calibrated with other probes. To this aim, we calibrate the EpEisoE_p-E_{iso} (or Amati) correlation through model-independent B\'ezier interpolations of the updated Hubble rate and the novel DESI data sets. More precisely, we provide two B\'ezier calibrations: i) handling the entire DESI sample, and ii) excluding the point at zeff=0.51z_{eff}=0.51, criticized by the recent literature. In both the two options, we let the comoving sound horizon at the drag epoch, rdr_d, vary in the range rd[138,156]r_d \in [138, 156] Mpc. The Planck value is also explored for comparison. By means of the so-calibrated gamma-ray bursts, we thus constrain three dark energy frameworks, namely the standard Λ\LambdaCDM, the ω0\omega_0CDM and the ω0ω1\omega_0\omega_1CDM models, in both spatially flat and non-flat universes. To do so, we worked out Monte Carlo Markov chain analyses, making use of the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm. Further, we adopt model selection criteria to check the statistically preferred cosmological model finding a preference towards the concordance paradigm only whether the spatial curvature is zero. Conversely, and quite interestingly, the flat ω0\omega_0CDM and both the cases, flat/non-flat, ω0ω1\omega_0\omega_1CDM model, leave evidently open the chance that dark energy evolves at higher redshifts.

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@article{arxiv.2408.02536,
  title  = {Cosmological constraints from calibrated $E_p-E_{iso}$ gamma-ray burst correlation by using DESI 2024 data release},
  author = {Anna Chiara Alfano and Orlando Luongo and Marco Muccino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.02536},
  year   = {2024}
}

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15 pages, 7 figures, 8 tables

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