Redshift-distance relations from type Ia supernova observations. New constraints on grey dust models

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2007-01-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0701259v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Extinction due to intergalactic grey dust has been proposed as an alternative to accelerated expansion to account for the dimming of \s fluxes beyond $z \simeq 0.5$. The ``replenishing'' grey dust model, although fitting the observational data, does not seem to be based on physical assumptions. For this reason, in this paper we propose a new grey dust model whose dust distribution follows the comoving SFR density evolution, a reasonably established phenomenon. This new model is compared with the updated photometric data sample from the High Z Supernova Search Team (HZT). Also, using pairs of supernovae at different redshifts, the possibility of any ``patchy'' distribution proposed to explain the discrepancies between the ``high $z$'' dust model and the \s observations at very high redshift ($z \ge 0.9$) is ruled out. Finally, the data are compared with different models with and without dark energy and a best fit to a universe with adimensional parameters $\Omega_{\mathrm{m0}} = 0.31$ and $\Omega_{\mathrm{\Lambda 0}} = 0.69$ is obtained, from which an age of the universe of $t_{0} \simeq 14.6 \times 10^{9}$ years is derived. This age is compatible with the age of the globular clusters using an equation of state $\omega = -1$ and it obviates the need to resort to any kind of phantom energy.

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