When did cosmic acceleration start? How fast was the transition?

Details When did cosmic acceleration start? How fast was the transition? When did cosmic acceleration start? How fast was the transition?

2007-06-04

arxiv.org/abs/0706.0546v5

Astropart.Phys.28:547-552,2008

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, 3 figures. Replaced to match the published version

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.astropartphys.2007.10.

Cosmic acceleration is investigated through a kink-like expression for the deceleration parameter (q). The new parametrization depends on the initial (q_i) and final (q_f) values of q, on the redshift of the transition from deceleration to acceleration (z_{t}) and the width of such transition (\tau). We show that although supernovae (SN) observations (Gold182 and SNLS data samples) indicate, at high confidence, that a transition occurred in the past (z_{t}>0) they do not, by themselves, impose strong constraints on the maximum value of z_{t}. However, when we combine SN with the measurements of the ratio between the comoving distance to the last scattering surface and the SDSS+2dfGRS BAO distance scale (S_{k}/D_{v}) we obtain, at 95.4% confidence level, z_{t}=0.84+{0.17}-{0.13} and \tau =0.51-{0.17}+{0.23} for (S_{k}/D_{v}+Gold182), and z_{t}=0.88-{0.10}+{0.12} and \tau =0.35-{0.10}+{0.12} for (S_{k}/D_{v} + SNLS), assuming q_i=0.5 and q_f=-1. We also analyze the general case, q_f\in(-\infty,0) finding the constraints that the combined tests (S_{k}/D_{v} + SNLS) impose on the present value of the deceleration parameter (q_0).

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