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Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) provide an important standard ruler which can be used to probe the recent expansion history of our universe. We show how a simple extension of the Om diagnostic, which we call Om3, can combine standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-07 Arman Shafieloo , Varun Sahni , Alexei A. Starobinsky

A model-independent test of the cosmic curvature parameter $\Omega_k$ is very important in cosmology. In order to estimate cosmic curvature from cosmological probes like standard candles, one has to be able to measure the luminosity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Xiaogang Zheng , Shuo Cao , Yuting Liu , Marek Biesiada , Tonghua Liu , Shuaibo Geng , Yujie Lian , Wuzheng Guo

We perform a data-driven test of the FLRW metric and the flatness of the Universe, independently of any Dark Energy model, and in light of the latest DESI DR2 results. We use Pantheon+ and DESY5 SNIa data to reconstruct the distance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-29 Cléa Millard , Benjamin L'Huillier , Marian Douspis

Since there is no known symmetry in Nature that prevents a non-minimal coupling between the dark energy (DE) and cold dark matter (CDM) components, such a possibility constitutes an alternative to standard cosmology, with its theoretical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-21 Rodrigo von Marttens , Valerio Marra , Luciano Casarini , J. E. Gonzalez , Jailson Alcaniz

We develop methods for investigating baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) features in cosmological models with non-trivial (but slowly varying) averaged spatial curvature: models that are not necessarily flat, close to flat, nor with constant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 Asta Heinesen , Chris Blake , Yong-Zhuang Li , David L. Wiltshire

In this paper, we carry out a new model-independent cosmological test for the cosmic distance duality relation~(CDDR) by combining the latest five baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) measurements and the Pantheon type Ia supernova (SNIa)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-02 Bing Xu , Zhenzhen Wang , Kaituo Zhang , Qihong Huang , Jianjian Zhang

Gaussian processes (GP) provide an elegant and model-independent method for extracting cosmological information from the observational data. In this work, we employ GP to perform a joint analysis by using the geometrical cosmological probes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-11 Alexander Bonilla , Suresh Kumar , Rafael C. Nunes

The weak equivalence principle is one of the cornerstone of general relativity. Its validity has been tested with impressive precision in the Solar System, with experiments involving baryonic matter and light. However, on cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-10 Camille Bonvin , Felipe Oliveira Franco , Pierre Fleury

In this work, using the Gaussian Process, we explore the potentiality of future gravitational wave (GW) measurement to probe cosmic opacity through comparing its opacity-free luminosity distance (LD) with the opacity-dependent one from type…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-22 Lu Zhou , Xiangyun Fu , Zhaohui Peng , Jun Chen

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

The tomographic Alcock-Paczynski (AP) test is a robust large-scale structure (LSS) measurement that receives little contamination from the redshift space distortion (RSD). It has placed tight cosmological constraints by using small and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 Xiao-Dong Li , Haitao Miao , Xin Wang , Xue Zhang , Feng Fang , Xiaolin Luo , Qing-Guo Huang , Miao Li

Geometrical tests such as the combination of the Hubble parameter H(z) and the angular diameter distance d_A(z) can, in principle, break the degeneracy between the dark energy equation of state parameter w(z), and the spatial curvature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 G. Barenboim , E. Fernandez-Martinez , O. Mena , L. Verde

We present a calibration-free consistency test of spatially flat $\Lambda$CDM based on baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) distance measurements. The method forms ratios of BAO distances including the Hubble distance, the comoving angular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-26 Xing-Han A. Zhao , Zheng Cai

The assumption of a Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Roberton-Walker (FLRW) Universe is one of the fundamental pillars of modern Cosmology. It is crucial to confront it against cosmological observations in order to confirm (or rule out) the validity of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-16 Carlos Bengaly

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

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), known as one of the largest cosmological objects, is now recognized as standard cosmological tool to measure geometric distances via the Alcock-Paczynski effect, by which the observed BAO exhibits…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-03 Yong-Seon Song , Teppei Okumura , Atsushi Taruya

We investigate - in a generic setting - the regime of applicability of the Alcock-Paczynski (AP) scaling conventionally applied to test different cosmological models, given a fiducial measurement of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-22 Asta Heinesen , Chris Blake , David L. Wiltshire

In this paper, instead of invoking Dark Energy, we try and fit various cosmological observations with a large Gpc scale under-dense region (Void) which is modeled by a Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi metric that at large distances becomes a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-25 Tirthabir Biswas , Alessio Notari , Wessel Valkenburg

The cosmic curvature density parameter has been constrained in the present work independent of any background cosmological model. The reconstruction is performed adopting the non-parametric Gaussian Processes (GP). The constraints on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-18 Purba Mukherjee , Narayan Banerjee

We investigate the Alcock Paczynski (AP) test applied to the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature in the galaxy correlation function. By using a general formalism that includes relativistic effects, we quantify the importance of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-27 Francesca Lepori , Enea Di Dio , Matteo Viel , Carlo Baccigalupi , Ruth Durrer