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Is there evidence for dark energy evolution?

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-04-21 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Recently, Sahni, Shafielo o & Starobinsky (2014) combined two independent measurements of H(z)H(z) from BAO data with the value of the Hubble constant H0=H(z=0)H_0 = H(z=0), in order to test the cosmological constant hypothesis by means of an improved version of the OmOm diagnostic. Their result indicated a considerable tension between observations and predictions of the Λ\LambdaCDM model. However, such strong conclusion was based only on three measurements of H(z)H(z). This motivated us to repeat similar work on a larger sample. By using a comprehensive data set of 29 H(z)H(z), we find that discrepancy indeed exists. Even though the value of Ωm,0h2\Omega_{m,0} h^2 inferred from Omh2Omh^2 diagnostic depends on the way one chooses to make a summary statistics (weighted mean or the median), the persisting discrepancy supports the claims of Sahni, Shafielo o & Starobinsky (2014) that Λ\LambdaCDM model may not be the best description of our Universe.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1503.04923,
  title  = {Is there evidence for dark energy evolution?},
  author = {Xuheng Ding and Marek Biesiada and Shuo Cao and Zhengxiang Li and Zong-Hong Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.04923},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

8 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in the ApJL

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