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The use of time-delay gravitational lenses to examine the cosmological expansion introduces a new standard ruler with which to test theoretical models. The sample suitable for this kind of work now includes 12 lens systems, which have thus…

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It has been known for over three decades that the monochromatic X-ray and UV luminosities in quasars are correlated, though non-linearly. This offers the possibility of using high-z quasars as standard candles for cosmological testing. In…

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Cosmological models with a positive cosmological constant and $\Omega_0<1$ have a number of attractive features. A larger Hubble constant, which can be compatible with the recent HST estimate, and a large fraction of baryon density in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anatoly Klypin , Joel Primack , Jon Holtzman

We carry out a comparative analysis of the standard $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model and the alternative $R_h=ct$ framework using recent observational data from cosmic chronometers (CC), Type Ia supernova, and baryon acoustic oscillations.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-26 Amritansh Mehrotra , S. K. J. Pacif , A. F. Santos

Galaxy clusters have their unique advantages for cosmology. Here we collect a new sample of 10 lensing galaxy clusters with X-ray observations to constrain cosmological parameters.The redshifts of lensing clusters lie between 0.1 and 0.6,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Heng Yu , Zong-Hong Zhu

Several models based on General Relativity and Modified Gravity aim to reproduce the observed universe with precision comparable to the flat-$\Lambda$CDM cosmological model. In this study, we investigate the consistency of some of these…

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Under the assumption that the gas mass fraction of galaxy clusters estimated out to an outer hydrostatic radius is constant, it is possible to constrain the cosmological parameters by using the angular diameter distance relation with…

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In order to test the expansion of the universe and its geometry, we carry out an Alcock & Paczynski cosmological test, that is, an evaluation of the ratio of observed angular size to radial/redshift size. The main advantage of this test is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Martin Lopez-Corredoira

Flat $\Lambda$CDM cosmology is specified by two constant fitting parameters at the background level in the late Universe, the Hubble constant $H_0$ and matter density (today) $\Omega_m$. Mathematically, $H_0$ and $\Omega_m$ are either…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-19 Eoin Ó Colgáin , M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari , Rance Solomon , Maria G. Dainotti , Dejan Stojkovic

We use high-resolution N-body simulations to study the galaxy-cluster cross-sections and the abundance of giant arcs in the $\Lambda$CDM model. Clusters are selected from the simulations using the friends-of-friends method, and their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. L. Li , S. Mao , Y. P. Jing , M. Bartelmann , X. Kang , M. Meneghetti

Recent detection of high-redshift, massive clusters through Sunyaev-Zel'dovich observations has opened up a new way to test cosmological models. It is known that detection of a single supermassive cluster at a very high redshift can rule…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-22 Arman Shafieloo , George F. Smoot

This study is devoted to the cosmological "angular size - redshift" test. An analysis is performed of the angular and linear sizes of galaxies from the new ASTRODEEP-JWST catalogue, which contains over 500,000 objects at high redshifts (up…

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We examine whether a comparison between wCDM and R_h=ct using merged Type Ia SN catalogs produces results consistent with those based on a single homogeneous sample. Using the Betoule et al. (2014) joint lightcurve analysis (JLA) of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-19 Fulvio Melia , Jun-Jie Wei , Robert Maier , Xuefeng Wu

We study the redshift distribution of two samples of early-type gravitational lenses, extracted from a larger collection of 122 systems, to constrain the cosmological constant in the LCDM model and the parameters of a set of alternative…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Shuo Cao , Giovanni Covone , Zong-Hong Zhu

We investigate galaxy clustering and galaxy-mass correlations in the LCDM cosmological model using a large volume SPH simulation. For the most part, the predicted biases between galaxies and dark matter lead to good agreement with current…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 David H. Weinberg , Romeel Dav'e , Neal Katz , Lars Hernquist

The mass function of cluster-size halos and their redshift distribution are computed for 12 distinct accelerating cosmological scenarios and confronted to the predictions of the conventional flat $\Lambda$CDM model. The comparison with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-27 S. Basilakos , M. Plionis , J. A. S. Lima

We present a cosmographic study designed to test the simplest type of accelerating cosmology: a flat universe with matter and a cosmological constant ($\Lambda$). Hubble series expansions are fit to the SCP Union2.1 supernova data set to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-17 Brett Bochner , Damon Pappas , Menglu Dong

We use the dispersion measure (DM) and redshift measurements of 24 localized fast radio bursts (FRBs) to compare cosmological models and investigate the Hubble tension. Setting a flat prior on the DM contribution from the Milky Way's halo,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-14 Jun-Jie Wei , Fulvio Melia

The use of Type~Ia SNe has thus far produced the most reliable measurement of the expansion history of the Universe, suggesting that $\Lambda$CDM offers the best explanation for the redshift--luminosity distribution observed in these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-22 Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu , Fulvio Melia , Robert S. Maier

Observation of even a single massive cluster, especially at high redshift, can falsify the standard cosmological framework consisting of a cosmological constant and cold dark matter (LCDM) with Gaussian initial conditions by exposing an…

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