Gamma Ray Bursts: Cosmic Rulers for the High-Redshift Universe?

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2006-12-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0612089v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

2 pages, 1 figure (black & white, colour available). To be published in "Phil. Trans. of the Royal Society" as proceedings fro

Scientific paper

10.1098/rsta.2006.1991

The desire to extend the Hubble Diagram to higher redshifts than the range of current Type Ia Supernovae observations has prompted investigation into spectral correlations in Gamma Ray Bursts, in the hope that standard candle-like properties can be identified. In this paper we discuss the potential of these new `cosmic rulers' and highlight their limitations by investigating the constraints that current data can place on an alternative Cosmological model in the form of Conformal Gravity. By fitting current Type 1a Supernovae and Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) data to the predicted luminosity distance redshift relation of both the standard Concordance Model and Conformal Gravity, we show that currently \emph{neither} model is strongly favoured at high redshift. The scatter in the current GRB data testifies to the further work required if GRBs are to cement their place as effective probes of the cosmological distance scale.

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