Published December 15, 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

Probing dark energy with supernovae: A concordant or a convergent model?

  • 1. Centre de Physique Theorique, CNRS-Luminy Case 907, F-13288 Marseille Cedex 9 (France) and Universite de Provence, Marseille (France)
  • 2. Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille, CNRS-Luminy Case 907, F-13288 Marseille Cedex 9 (France)

Description

We present a revised interpretation of recent analysis of supernovae data. We evaluate the effect of the priors on the extraction of the dark energy equation of state. We find that the conclusions depend strongly on the ΩM prior value and on its uncertainty and show that a biased fitting procedure applied on non concordant simulated data can converge to the 'concordance model'. Relaxing the prior on ΩM points to other sets of solutions, which are not excluded by observational data

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
70
Journal Issue
12
Journal Page Range
p. 121301-121301.5
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
37014195
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
COSMOLOGY; EQUATIONS OF STATE; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; SUPERNOVAE
Descriptors DEC
BINARY STARS; EQUATIONS; ERUPTIVE VARIABLE STARS; MATTER; STARS; VARIABLE STARS

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