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In this paper, we propose to estimate the spatial curvature of the universe and the cosmic opacity in a model-independent way with expansion rate measurements, $H(z)$, and type Ia supernova (SNe Ia). On the one hand, using a nonparametric…

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Compared with the plentiful researches of the Hubble parameter and deceleration factor, the third time derivative of the scale factor $a(t)$ in the FRW cosmology, namely, the jerk parameter $j$ still lacks attention. In order to study the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Zhong-Xu Zhai , Ming-Jian Zhang , Zhi-Song Zhang , Xian-Ming Liu , Tong-Jie Zhang

We apply Gaussian processes (GP) in order to impose constraints on teleparallel gravity and its $f(T)$ extensions. We use available $H(z)$ observations from (i) cosmic chronometers data (CC); (ii) Supernova Type Ia (SN) data from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Rebecca Briffa , Salvatore Capozziello , Jackson Levi Said , Jurgen Mifsud , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

This paper aims to put constraints on the transition redshift $z_t$, which determines the onset of cosmic acceleration, in cosmological-model independent frameworks. In order to do that, we use the non-parametric Gaussian Process method…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-20 J. F. Jesus , R. Valentim , A. A. Escobal , S. H. Pereira

In this work, we achieve the determination of the cosmic curvature $\Omega_K$ in a cosmological model-independent way, by using the Hubble parameter measurements $H(z)$ and type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). In our analysis, two nonlinear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-26 Guo-Jian Wang , Xiao-Jiao Ma , Jun-Qing Xia

We propose a model-independent way to determine the cosmic curvature using the Hubble parameter $H(z)$ measured with cosmic chronometers and the comoving distance $D(z)$ inferred from HII galaxies. We employ Gaussian processes to smooth the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-18 Jing Zheng , Fulvio Melia , Tong-Jie Zhang

In the present work, we apply consistency relation tests to several cosmological models, including the flat and non-flat $\Lambda$CDM models, as well as the flat XCDM model. The analysis uses a non-parametric Gaussian Processes method to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-20 J. F. Jesus , A. A. Escobal , R. Valentim , S. H. Pereira

In the context of a Hubble tension problem that is growing in its statistical significance, we reconsider the effectiveness of non-parametric reconstruction techniques which are independent of prescriptive cosmological models. By taking…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-11 Celia Escamilla-Rivera , Jackson Levi Said , Jurgen Mifsud

The cosmological model-independent method Gaussian process (GP) has been widely used in the reconstruction of Hubble constant $H_0$, and the hyperparameters inside GP influence the reconstructed result derived from GP. Different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-07 Wen Sun , Kang Jiao , Tong-Jie Zhang

We study the accelerated expansion phase of the universe by using the {\textit{kinematic approach}}. In particular, the deceleration parameter $q$ is parametrized in a model-independent way. Considering a generalized parametrization for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-22 Abdulla Al Mamon , Kazuharu Bamba

We revisit the kink-like parametrization of the deceleration parameter q(z), which considers a transition, at $z_t$, from cosmic deceleration to acceleration. In this parametrization the initial, at $z \gg z_t$, value of the q-parameter is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-01 Marcelo Vargas dos Santos , Ribamar R. R. Reis , Ioav Waga

The cosmic curvature ($\Omega_k$) is a fundamental parameter for cosmology. In this paper, we propose an improved model-independent method to constrain the cosmic curvature, which is geometrically related to the Hubble parameter $H(z)$ and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-07 Yuting Liu , Shuo Cao , Tonghua Liu , Xiaolei Li , Shuaibo Geng , Yujie Lian , Wuzheng Guo

We apply Gaussian processes and Hubble function data in $f(T)$ cosmology, to reconstruct for the first time the $f(T)$ form in a model-independent way. In particular, using $H(z)$ datasets coming from cosmic chronometers as well as from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-09 Yi-Fu Cai , Martiros Khurshudyan , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

Accurately measuring the Hubble parameter is vital for understanding the expansion history and properties of the universe. In this paper, we propose a new method that supplements the covariance between redshift pairs to improve the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-23 Jian-Chen Zhang , Yu Hu , Kang Jiao , Hong-Feng Wang , Yuan-Bo Xie , Bo Yu , Li-Li Zhao , Tong-Jie Zhang

Much focus was on the possible slowing down of cosmic acceleration under the dark energy parametrization. In the present paper, we investigate this subject using the Gaussian processes (GP), without resorting to a particular template of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 Ming-Jian Zhang , Jun-Qing Xia

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

Using the mathematical definitions of deceleration and jerk parameters we obtain a general differential equation for squared Hubble parameter. For a constant jerk, this differential equation leads to an exact function for Hubble parameter.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-21 Hassan Amirhashchi , Soroush Amirhashchi

Context. The precise determination of the present-day expansion rate of the Universe, expressed through the Hubble constant $H_0$, is one of the most pressing challenges in modern cosmology. Assuming flat $\Lambda$CDM, $H_0$ inference at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 S. Taubenberger , S. H. Suyu , E. Komatsu , I. Jee , S. Birrer , V. Bonvin , F. Courbin , C. E. Rusu , A. J. Shajib , K. C. Wong

We compile a complete collection of reliable Hubble parameter $H(z)$ data to redshift $z \leq 2.36$ and use them with the Gaussian Process method to determine continuous $H(z)$ functions for various data subsets. From these continuous…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Hai Yu , Bharat Ratra , Fa-Yin Wang

Alternative cosmological models have been proposed to alleviate the tensions reported in the concordance cosmological model, or to explain the current accelerated phase of the universe. One way to distinguish between General Relativity and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-11 Fernanda Oliveira , Felipe Avila , Armando Bernui , Alexander Bonilla , Rafael C. Nunes