Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-01-17
Astrophys.J.666:716-725,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Accepted by ApJ. v2: Two figures added, minor typographical corrections. 10 pages, 9 figures
Scientific paper
10.1086/519988
The first cosmological results from the ESSENCE supernova survey (Wood-Vasey et al. 2007) are extended to a wider range of cosmological models including dynamical dark energy and non-standard cosmological models. We fold in a greater number of external data sets such as the recent Higher-z release of high-redshift supernovae (Riess et al. 2007) as well as several complementary cosmological probes. Model comparison statistics such as the Bayesian and Akaike information criteria are applied to gauge the worth of models. These statistics favor models that give a good fit with fewer parameters. Based on this analysis, the preferred cosmological model is the flat cosmological constant model, where the expansion history of the universe can be adequately described with only one free parameter describing the energy content of the universe. Among the more exotic models that provide good fits to the data, we note a preference for models whose best-fit parameters reduce them to the cosmological constant model.
Becker Andrew C.
Blondin Stephan
Challis Peter
Clocchiatti Alejandro
Davis Tamara M.
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