Testing for monotonicity in the Hubble diagram
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
General relativistic kinematics and the cosmological principle alone imply a monotonicity constraint in the Hubble diagram, which we confront to present-day supernova data. We use the running gradient method of statistical inference by Hall & Heckman (2000). We find no significant departure from monotonicity. The method seems well adapted and we recommend its use with future data.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0612556,
title = {Testing for monotonicity in the Hubble diagram},
author = {Nicolai Meinshausen and John Rice and Thomas Schücker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0612556},
year = {2007}
}
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5 pages, 3 figures