Complementary Measures of the Mass Density and Cosmological Constant

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1998-02-23

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9802295v4

Astrophys.J.506:495,1998

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 4 figures, minor changes to reflect version accepted in ApJ. New SN data included. Minor typos fixed

Scientific paper

10.1086/306278

The distance-redshift relation depends on the amount of matter of each type in the universe. Measurements at different redshifts constrain differing combinations of these matter densities and thus may be used in combination to constrain each separately. The combination of Omega_0 and Omega_Lambda measured in supernovae at z<1 is almost orthogonal to the combination probed by the location of features in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy spectrum. We analyze the current combined data set in this framework, showing that the regions preferred by the Supernova and CMB measurements are compatible. We quantify the favoured region. We also discuss models in which the matter density in the universe is augmented by a smooth component to give critical density. These models, by construction and in contrast, are not strongly constrained by the combination of the data sets.

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