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Reconstructing the properties of dark energy from recent observations

Puxun Wu1 and Hongwei Yu2,3

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We explore the properties of dark energy from recent observational data, including the Gold Sne Ia, the baryonic acoustic oscillation peak from SDSS, the CMB shift parameter from WMAP3, the x-ray gas mass fraction in clusters and the Hubble parameter versus redshift. The ΛCDM model with curvature and two parameterized dark energy models are studied. For the ΛCDM model, we find that the flat universe is consistent with observations at the 1σ confidence level and a closed universe is slightly favored by these data. For two parameterized dark energy models, with the prior given on the present matter density, Ωm0, with Ωm0 = 0.24, Ωm0 = 0.28 and Ωm0 = 0.32, our result seems to suggest that the trend of Ωm0 dependence for an evolving dark energy from a combination of the observational datasets is model-dependent.


Keywords

supernova type Ia

dark energy theory

PACS

95.36.+x Dark energy

98.70.Vc Background radiations

95.30.Cq Elementary particle processes

98.65.Cw Galaxy clusters

98.80.Es Observational cosmology (including Hubble constant, distance scale, cosmological constant, early Universe, etc)

Subjects

Gravitation and cosmology

Particle physics and field theory

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 10 (October 2007)

Received 12 June 2007, accepted for publication 2 October 2007

Published 22 October 2007



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