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Standard two-parameter compressions of the infinite dimensional dark energy model space show crippling limitations even with current SN-Ia data. Firstly they cannot cope with rapid evolution - the best-fit to the latest SN-Ia data shows…

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Photometric redshift uncertainties are a major source of systematic error for ongoing and future photometric surveys. We study different sources of redshift error caused by choosing a suboptimal redshift histogram bin width and propose…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-02 Markus Michael Rau , Ben Hoyle , Kerstin Paech , Stella Seitz

Cosmography is a powerful tool to investigate the Universe kinematic and then to reconstruct dynamics in a model-independent way. However, recent new measurements of supernovae Ia and quasars have populated the Hubble diagram up to high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-19 Giada Bargiacchi , G. Risaliti , M. Benetti , S. Capozziello , E. Lusso , A. Saccardi , M. Signorini

We update constraints on cosmic opacity by combining recent SN Type Ia data compilation with the latest measurements of the Hubble expansion at redshifts between 0 and 2. The new constraint on the parameter $\epsilon$ parametrising…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Anastasios Avgoustidis , Clare Burrage , Javier Redondo , Licia Verde , Raul Jimenez

We revisit the epoch of cosmic speed-up characterized by the redshift of transition from a decelerated to an accelerated phase. This redshift is termed the transition redshift ($z_t$). We use the spatially Flat and Non-Flat variants of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 David Dahiya , Deepak Jain

Redshift is a key quantity for inferring cosmological model parameters. In photometric redshift estimation, cosmologists use the coarse data collected from the vast majority of galaxies to predict the redshift of individual galaxies. To…

Applications · Statistics 2016-04-07 Rafael Izbicki , Ann B. Lee , Peter E. Freeman

Cosmic opacity may vary spatially due to the inhomogeneous distribution of dust, its grain properties, and the efficiency of photon attenuation. In this work, we present a model independent method to investigate the variation of cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-29 Savita Gahlaut , Meetu Luthra

Mapping the expansion history of the universe is a compelling task of physical cosmology, especially in the context of the observational evidence for the recent acceleration of the universe, which demonstrates that canonical theories of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 B. A. R. Rocha , C. J. A. P. Martins

In this work, we test the cosmic distance duality relation (CDDR) using the arbitrary redshift pivot Pad\'e-(2,1) expansion methodology developed in arXiv:2509.16196. This approach allows us to constrain cosmography parameters and test CDDR…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Shubham Barua , Sujit K. Dalui , Rikiya Okazaki , Shantanu Desai

Redshifts used in current cosmological supernova samples are measured using two primary techniques, one based on well-measured host galaxy spectral lines and the other based on supernova-dominated spectra. Here, we construct an updated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-20 Charles L. Steinhardt , Albert Sneppen , Bidisha Sen

Using mock data for the Hubble diagrams of type Ia supernovae (SNIa) and quasars (QSOs) generated based on the standard model of cosmology, and using the least-squares method based on the Markov-Chain-Monte-Carlo (MCMC) algorithm, we first…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-04 S. Pourojaghi , N. F. Zabihi , M. Malekjani

Recent released Planck data and other astronomical observations show that the universe may be anisotropic on large scales. This hints a cosmological privileged axis in our anisotropic expanding universe. This paper proceeds a modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-29 Amin Salehi , Mohammad Reza Setare

We examine the observational viability of a class of $f(\mathcal{R})$ gravity cosmological models. Particular attention is devoted to constraints from the recent observational determination of the redshift of the cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Salvatore Capozziello , Omer Farooq , Orlando Luongo , Bharat Ratra

We perform a model-independent reconstruction of the cosmic distances using the Multi-Task Gaussian Process (MTGP) framework as well as knot-based spline techniques with DESI-DR2 BAO and DES-SN5YR datasets. We calibrate the comoving sound…

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

The standard relation between the cosmological redshift and cosmic scale factor underlies cosmological inference from virtually all kinds of cosmological observations, leading to the emergence of the LambdaCDM cosmological model. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-08 Radosław Wojtak , Francisco Prada

In the last dozen years a wide and variegated mass of observational data revealed that the universe is now expanding at an accelerated rate. In the absence of a well-based theory to interpret the observations, cosmography provides…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 Ester Piedipalumbo , Enrica Della Moglie , Roberto Cianci

One of the most compelling tasks of modern cosmology is to constrain the expansion history of the Universe, since this measurement can give insights on the nature of dark energy and help to estimate cosmological parameters. In this letter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Michele Moresco

We construct observational Hubble $H(z)$ and angular diameter distance $D_{A}(z)$ mock data with baseline Planck $\Lambda$CDM input values, before fitting the $\Lambda$CDM model to study evolution of probability density functions (PDFs) of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-21 Eoin Ó Colgáin , M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari , Rance Solomon

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