Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-10-10
Nuovo Cim.B122:1359-1364,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Talk presented at the "A Century of Cosmology - Past, Present and Future" conference, S.Servolo(Venice), Italy, August 27-31 2
Scientific paper
10.1393/ncb/i2008-10480-3
Recent astronomical observations of SNIa, CMB, as well as BAO in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, suggest that the current Universe has entered a stage of an accelerated expansion with the transition redshift at $z \simeq 0.5$. While the simplest candidates to explain this fact is cosmological constant/vacuum energy, there exists a serious problem of coincidence. In theoretical cosmology we can find many possible approaches alleviating this problem by applying new physics or other conception of dark energy. We consider state of art candidates for the description of accelerating Universe in the framework of the Bayesian model selection. We point out advantages as well as troubles of this approach. We find that the combination of four data bases gives a stringent posterior probability of the $\Lambda$CDM model which is 74%. This fact is a quantitative exemplification of a turmoil in modern cosmology over the $\Lambda$ problem.
Kurek Aleksandra
Szydlowski Marek
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