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The proposal to use HII galaxies (HIIGx) and giant extragalactic HII regions (GEHR) as standard candles to construct the Hubble diagram at redshifts beyond the current reach of Type Ia supernovae has gained considerable support recently…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-06 Jun-Jie Wei , Fulvio Melia

In this paper, we continue to build support for the proposal to use gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) as standard candles in constructing the Hubble Diagram at redshifts beyond the current reach of Type Ia supernova observations. We confirm that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu , Fulvio Melia

The Hubble diagram constructed using HII galaxies (HIIGx) and Giant extragalactic HII regions (GEHR) as standard candles already extends beyond the current reach of Type Ia SNe. A sample of 156 HIIGx and GEHR sources has been used…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-20 Manoj K. Yennapureddy , Fulvio Melia

We re-investigated the use of the Hubble diagram to measure the cosmological constant ($\Lambda$) and the mass density of the Universe ($\Omega_M$). We find an important focusing effect in $\Lambda$ for redshifts about 3. This effect…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jorge Melnick , Roberto Terlevich , Elena Terlevich

Cosmological applications of HII galaxies (HIIGx) and giant extragalactic HII regions (GEHR) to construct the Hubble diagram at higher redshifts require knowledge of the "$L$--$\sigma$" relation of the standard candles used. In this paper,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 Yan Wu , Shuo Cao , Jia Zhang , Tonghua Liu , Yuting Liu , Shuaibo Geng , Yujie Lian

The $L-\sigma$ relation of HII galaxies (HIIGx) calibrated by a distance indicator is a reliable standard candle for measuring the Hubble constant $H_0$. The most straightforward calibration technique anchors them with the first tier of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-13 Jian-Chen Zhang , Kang Jiao , Tingting Zhang , Tong-Jie Zhang , Bo Yu

A previous analysis of starburst-dominated HII Galaxies and HII regions has demonstrated a statistically significant preference for the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmology with zero active mass, known as the R_h=ct universe, over LCDM and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-20 Kyle Leaf , Fulvio Melia

We use three different data sets, specifically $H(z)$ measurements from cosmic chronometers, the HII-galaxy Hubble diagram, and reconstructed quasar-core angular-size measurements, to perform a joint analysis of three flat cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-01 Hao-Yi Wan , Shu-Lei Cao , Fulvio Melia , Tong-Jie Zhang

The relationship between the integrated H$\beta$ line luminosity and the velocity dispersion of the ionized gas of HII galaxies and giant HII regions represents an exciting standard candle that presently can be used up to redshifts z ~ 4.…

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

The empirical correlation between the H$\beta$ luminosity ($L$) and the ionized gas velocity dispersion ($\sigma$) in HII starburst galaxies (HIIGs) provides a foundation for using them as cosmological standard candles. A key unresolved…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-22 Jiaze Gao , Yun Chen , Lixin Xu

The Hubble diagram (HD) is a plot that contains luminous distance modulus presented with respect to the redshift. The distance modulus--redshift relation of the most well-known ``standard candles'', the type Ia supernovae (SN), is a crucial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-07 Nikita Lovyagin , Rustam Gainutdinov , Stanislav Shirokov , Vladimir Gorokhov

The relationship between the integrated H$\beta$ line luminosity and the velocity dispersion of the ionized gas of HII galaxies and giant HII regions represents an exciting standard candle that presently can be used up to redshifts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-28 David Fernández-Arenas , Ricardo Chávez

Two recent discoveries have made it possible for us to begin using high-z quasars as standard candles to construct a Hubble Diagram (HD) at z > 6. These are (1) the recognition from reverberation mapping that a relationship exists between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-26 Fulvio Melia

We complement a recent analysis comparing $R_\mathrm{h}=ct$ with $\Lambda$CDM/$w$CDM using HII galaxies and giant extragalactic HII regions, by carrying out Bayesian model comparison. For this purpose, we calculate the Bayes factors for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-01 Yuva Himanshu Pallam , Shantanu Desai

The Hubble diagram of quasars, as candidates to ``standardizable" candles, has been used to measure the expansion history of the Universe at late times, up to very high redshifts ($z \sim 7$). It has been shown that this history, as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-12 Chen Sun , Manuel A. Buen-Abad , JiJi Fan

Recent discoveries, e.g., by JWST and DESI, have elevated the level of tension with inflationary $\Lambda$CDM. For example, the empirical evidence now suggests that the standard model violates at least one of the energy conditions from…

General Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Namit Chandak , Fulvio Melia , Junjie Wei

Over twenty years ago, Type Ia Supernovae (SNIa) observations revealed an accelerating Universe expansion, suggesting a significant dark energy presence, often modelled as a cosmological constant, \( \Lambda \). Despite its pivotal role in…

We place novel constraints on the cosmokinetic parameters by using a joint analysis of the newest VLT-KMOS HII galaxies (HIIG) with the Supernovae Type Ia (SNIa) Pantheon sample. We combine the latter datasets in order to reconstruct, in a…

In previous papers, a cosmological model with constant-rate particle creation and vacuum term decaying linearly with the Hubble parameter was shown to lead to a good concordance when tested against precise observations: the position of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-09 Hermano Velten , Ariadna Montiel , Saulo Carneiro
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