Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-09-28
Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.173:19-23,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
5 pages, 8 figures
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2007.08.02
Understanding the acceleration of the universe and its cause is one of the key problems in physics and cosmology today, and is best studied using a variety of mutually complementary approaches. Daly and Djorgovski (2003, 2004) proposed a model independent approach to determine the expansion and acceleration history of the universe and a number of important physical parameters of the dark energy as functions of redshift directly from the data. Here, we apply the method to explicitly determine the first and second derivatives of the coordinate distance with respect to redshift and combine them to solve for the acceleration of the universe and the kinetic and potential energy density of the dark energy as functions of redshift. A data set of 228 supernova and 20 radio galaxy measurements with redshifts from zero to 1.79 is used for this study. The values we obtain are shown to be consistent with the values expected in a standard Lambda Cold Dark Matter model.
Daly Ruth A.
Djorgovski Stanislav G.
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