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Observational constraints to a unified cosmological model

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-11-17 v2

Abstract

We propose a phenomenological unified model for dark matter and dark energy based on an equation of state parameter ww that scales with the arctan\arctan of the redshift. The free parameters of the model are three constants: Ωb0\Omega_{b0}, α\alpha and β\beta. Parameter α\alpha dictates the transition rate between the matter dominated era and the accelerated expansion period. The ratio β/α\beta / \alpha gives the redshift of the equivalence between both regimes. Cosmological parameters are fixed by observational data from Primordial Nucleosynthesis (PN), Supernovae of the type Ia (SNIa), Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB) and Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO). The calibration of the 138 GRBs events is performed using the 580 SNIa of the Union2.1 data set and a new set of 79 high-redshift GRBs is obtained. The various sets of data are used in different combinations to constraint the parameters through statistical analysis. The unified model is compared to the Λ\LambdaCDM model and their differences are emphasized.

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@article{arxiv.1412.0145,
  title  = {Observational constraints to a unified cosmological model},
  author = {R. R. Cuzinatto and L. G. Medeiros and E. M. de Morais},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.0145},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Original version: 15 pages, 9 figures, 7 tables. Current version: matches the published paper; 14 pages, 9 figures, 4 tables