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Probing Dark Energy with Supernovae : a concordant or a convergent model?

Astrophysics 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

We present a revised interpretation of recent analysis of supernovae data. We evaluate the effect of the priors on the extraction of the dark energy equation of state. We find that the conclusions depend strongly on the ΩM\Omega_M prior value and on its uncertainty, and show that a biased fitting procedure applied on non concordant simulated data can converge to the "concordance model". Relaxing the prior on ΩM\Omega_M points to other sets of solutions, which are not excluded by observational data.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0407452,
  title  = {Probing Dark Energy with Supernovae : a concordant or a convergent model?},
  author = {J. -M. Virey and A. Ealet and C. Tao and A. Tilquin and A. Bonissent and D. Fouchez and P. Taxil},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0407452},
  year   = {2009}
}

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1+4 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev