Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-04-14
Phys.Lett. B642 (2006) 171-178
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
RevTeX4, 11 pages, 7 figures; v2 some clarifications, bibliography additions, new figure (comparisons with respect to LambdaCD
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.physletb.2006.09.052
Recent astronomical observations indicate that the Universe is presently almost flat and undergoing a period of accelerated expansion. Basing on Einstein's general relativity all these observations can be explained by the hypothesis of a dark energy component in addition to cold dark matter (CDM). Because the nature of this dark energy is unknown, it was proposed some alternative scenario to explain the current accelerating Universe. The key point of this scenario is to modify the standard FRW equation instead of mysterious dark energy component. The standard approach to constrain model parameters, based on the likelihood method, gives a best-fit model and confidence ranges for those parameters. We always arbitrary choose the set of parameters which define a model which we compare with observational data. Because in the generic case, the introducing of new parameters improves a fit to the data set, there appears the problem of elimination of model parameters which can play an insufficient role. The Bayesian information criteria of model selection (the AIC and BIC) are dedicated to promotion a set of parameters which should be incorporated to the model. We divide class of all accelerating cosmological models into two groups according to the two types of explanation acceleration of the Universe. Then the Bayesian framework of model selection is used to determine the set of parameters which gives preferred fit to the SNIa data. We find a few of flat cosmological models which can be recommend by both the Bayes factor and Akaike information criterion.
Krawiec Adam
Kurek Aleksandra
Szydlowski Marek
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