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We propose a non-parametric method of smoothing supernova data over redshift using a Gaussian kernel in order to reconstruct important cosmological quantities including H(z) and w(z) in a model independent manner. This method is shown to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-24 Arman Shafieloo , Ujjaini Alam , Varun Sahni , Alexei A. Starobinsky

We have improved upon the method of smoothing supernovae data to reconstruct the expansion history of the universe, h(z), using two latest datasets, Gold and SNLS. The reconstruction process does not employ any parameterization and is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-19 Arman Shafieloo

We implement Crossing Statistics to reconstruct in a model-agnostic manner the expansion history of the universe and properties of dark energy, using DESI Data Release 1 (DR1) BAO data in combination with one of three different supernova…

Based on the largest homogeneously reduced set of Type Ia supernova luminosity data currently available -- the Union2 sample -- we reconstruct the expansion history of the Universe in a model-independent approach. Our method tests the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 S. Benitez-Herrera , F. Roepke , W. Hillebrandt , C. Mignone , M. Bartelmann , J. Weller

In this work we present a nonparametric approach, which works on minimal assumptions, to reconstruct the cosmic expansion of the Universe. We propose to combine a locally weighted scatterplot smoothing method and a simulation-extrapolation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-20 Ariadna Montiel , Ruth Lazkoz , Irene Sendra , Celia Escamilla-Rivera , Vincenzo Salzano

The existing degeneracy between different dark energy and modified gravity cosmologies at the background level may be broken by analysing quantities at the perturbative level. In this work, we apply a non-parametric smoothing (NPS) method…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-16 J. E. Gonzalez , J. S. Alcaniz , J. C. Carvalho

Cosmic distances can be measured using two complementary probes: Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia), serving as standard candles, and baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), serving as standard rulers. The luminosity distance derived from supernovae…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-22 Hyeok Woo , William Luke Matthewson , Arman Shafieloo

In this work, we implement Gaussian process regression to reconstruct the expansion history of the universe in a model-agnostic manner, using the Pantheon-Plus SN-Ia compilation in combination with two different BAO measurements (SDSS-IV…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-02 Purba Mukherjee , Anjan Ananda Sen

Combining Supernovae, Baryon Acoustic Oscillations and Redshift-Space Distortions data from the next generation of (Stage-IV) cosmological surveys, we aim to reconstruct the expansion history up to large redshifts using forward-modeling of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-29 R. Calderón , B. L'Huillier , D. Polarski , A. Shafieloo , A. A. Starobinsky

Understanding the origin of the accelerated expansion of the Universe poses one of the greatest challenges in physics today. Lacking a compelling fundamental theory to test, observational efforts are targeted at a better characterization of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-28 Tracy Holsclaw , Ujjaini Alam , Bruno Sanso , Herbert Lee , Katrin Heitmann , Salman Habib , David Higdon

An important issue in cosmology is reconstructing the effective dark energy equation of state directly from observations. With few physically motivated models, future dark energy studies cannot only be based on constraining a dark energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Marina Seikel , Chris Clarkson , Mathew Smith

To probe the late evolution history of the Universe, we adopt two kinds of optimal basis systems. One of them is constructed by performing the principle component analysis (PCA) and the other is build by taking the multidimensional scaling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-08 Chao-Jun Feng , Xin-Zhou Li

Using redshift space distortion data, we perform model-independent reconstructions of the growth history of matter inhomogeneity in the expanding Universe using two methods: crossing statistics and Gaussian processes. We then reconstruct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 Benjamin L'Huillier , Arman Shafieloo , David Polarski , Alexei A. Starobinsky

We reconstruct the expansion history of the Universe using type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) in a manner independent of any cosmological model assumptions. To do so, we implement a non-parametric iterative smoothing method on the Joint Light-curve…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 Hanwool Koo , Arman Shafieloo , Ryan E. Keeley , Benjamin L'Huillier

In the $\Lambda$CDM model, cosmological observations from the late and recent universe reveal a puzzling $\sim 4.5\sigma$ tension in the current rate of universe expansion. In addition to the various scenarios suggested to resolve the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Maryam Vazirnia , Ahmad Mehrabi

The present work is based upon a parametric reconstruction of the effective or total equation of state in a model for the universe with accelerated expansion. The constraints on the model parameters are obtained by maximum likelihood…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-27 Ankan Mukherjee

This review summarizes recent attempts to reconstruct the expansion history of the Universe and to probe the nature of dark energy. Reconstruction methods can be broadly classified into parametric and non-parametric approaches. It is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Varun Sahni , Alexei Starobinsky

We perform a model-independent investigation of the thermodynamic evolution of the Universe by reconstructing the expansion history from observational data using Gaussian Process regression. We consider three independent combinations of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-22 Afaq Maqsood , Tanima Duary

We use Genetic Algorithms to extract information from several cosmological probes, such as the type Ia supernovae (SnIa), the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) and the growth rate of matter perturbations. This is done by implementing a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-21 Savvas Nesseris , Juan Garcia-Bellido

In this Letter, by reconstructing the $Om$ diagnostic and the deceleration parameter $q$ from the latest Union2 Type Ia supernova sample with and without the systematic error along with the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) and the cosmic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 Zhengxiang Li , Puxun Wu , Hongwei Yu
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