Gamma-ray bursts in 1.8 < z < 5.6 suggest that the time variation of the dark energy is small
Abstract
We calibrated the peak energy-peak luminosity relation of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs; the so-called Yonetoku relation) using 33 events with redshift z < 1.62 without assuming any cosmological models. The luminosity distances to GRBs are estimated from those of large numbers of Type Ia supernovae with z < 1.755. This calibrated Yonetoku relation can be used as a new cosmic distance ladder towards higher redshifts. We determined the luminosity distances of 30 GRBs in 1.8 < z < 5.6 using the calibrated relation, and plotted the likelihood contour in the (Ωm, ΩΛ) plane. We obtained (Ωm, ΩΛ) = (0.37+0.14-0.11, 0.63+0.11-0.14) for a flat universe. Because our method is free from the circularity problem, we can say that our universe in 1.8 < z < 5.6 is compatible with the so-called concordance cosmological model derived for z < 1.8. This suggests that the time variation of the dark energy is small or zero up to z ~ 6.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- November 2008
- DOI:
- 10.1111/j.1745-3933.2008.00508.x
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0802.3428
- Bibcode:
- 2008MNRAS.391L...1K
- Keywords:
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- cosmology: cosmological parameters;
- gamma-rays: bursts;
- gamma-rays: observations;
- Astrophysics;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, 4 figures, accepted to MNRAS