Deceleration parameter

About: Deceleration parameter is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1776 publications have been published within this topic receiving 89440 citations.

Anisotropic Bianchi-I Cosmological Models in String Cosmology with Variable Deceleration Parameter

Abstract: The present study deals with spatially homogeneous and anisotropic Bianchi-I cosmological model representing massive strings. The energy-momentum tensor, as formulated by Letelier (Phys. Rev. D 28: 2414, 1983) has been used to construct massive string cosmological model for which we assume that the expansion scalar in the model is proportional to one of the components of shear tensor. The Einstein's field equations have been solved by considering time dependent deceleration parameter which renders the scale factor $a = (\sinh(\alpha t))^{\frac{1}{n}}$, where $\alpha$ and $n$ are constants. It has been detected that, for $n > 1$, the presented model has a transition of the universe from the early decelerated phase to the recent accelerating phase at present epoch while for $0 < n \leq 1$, this describes purely accelerating universe which is consistent with recent astrophysical observations. Moreover, some physical and geometric properties of the model along with physical acceptability of the solutions have been also discussed in detail.

Interacting Tsallis holographic dark energy and tachyon scalar field dark energy model in Bianchi type-II Universe

Abstract: In this work, we study the interaction between the dark matter (DM) component and the dark energy (DE) component using the Tsallis holographic dark energy (THDE) density expression for a Bianchi type-II space–time within the framework of general relativity (GR). To obtain the exact solutions of Einstein’s field equations, we use two constraints: (i) the expansion scalar [Formula: see text] of the Universe is proportional to the component [Formula: see text] of the shear tensor [Formula: see text], i.e. [Formula: see text] and (ii) we assume that the scale factor follows the Hybrid Expansion Law (HEL). We have discussed some geometrical and physical parameters of our model such as the deceleration parameter (DP) and the equation of state (EoS) parameter. In these parameters, we plot their behavior in terms of redshift [Formula: see text]. We observe that the DP evolves from the early decelerating phase to the current accelerating phase with a current value consistent with the observation data. The EoS parameter evolves from a state of a stiff-matter fluid-dominated era [Formula: see text] for high redshift [Formula: see text] to a [Formula: see text]CDM era [Formula: see text] in the later times. Also, we have established a correspondence between the THDE model and the tachyon scalar field dark energy model. We have reconstructed the potential and the tachyon scalar field, which describes the current accelerated expansion of the Universe. Finally, using 51 values of observed Hubble measurement and the technique [Formula: see text]-test, we found the best fit value for the model parameters [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] (current value of the Hubble parameter). These results are consistent with the new measurements of [Formula: see text].[Formula: see text]

The Maxwell–Chern–Simons gravity, and its cosmological implications

Abstract: We consider the cosmological implications of a gravitational theory containing two vector fields coupled via a generalized Chern–Simons term. One of the vector fields is the usual Maxwell field, while the other is a constrained vector field with constant norm included in the action via a Lagrange multiplier. The theory admits a de Sitter type solution, with healthy cosmological perturbations. We also show that there are seven degrees of freedom that propagate on top of de Sitter space-time, consisting of two tensor polarizations, four degrees of freedom related to the two vector fields, and a scalar degree of freedom that makes one of the vector fields massive. We investigate the cosmological evolution of Bianchi type I space-time, by assuming that the matter content of the Universe can be described by the stiff and dust. The cosmological evolution of the Bianchi type I Universe strongly depends on the initial conditions of the physical quantities, as well as on the model parameters. The mean anisotropy parameter, and the deceleration parameter, are also studied, and we show that independently of the matter equation of state the cosmological evolution of the Bianchi type I Universe always ends in an isotropic de Sitter type phase.

Interacting Tsallis and Rényi holographic dark energy with hybrid expansion law

Abstract: The manuscript presents the dynamics of Tsallis holographic dark energy (THDE) and Renyi holographic dark energy (RHDE) prescribed by a non-linear interaction in the FRW spacetime and for a scale factor evolving with a composite power law-exponential (hybrid) form. To construct the energy densities of these holographic dark energy models, I assume the Hubble cutoff to be the IR limit. I find that the deceleration parameter undergoes a signature flipping at a redshift $z$ consistent with observations. The EoS parameter $\omega _{de}$ for both the HDE models exhibit quite contrasting dynamical behavior despite assuming values close to −1 at $z=0$ and therefore consistent with current observations. Next, I find the squared sound speed $c_{s}^{2}$ to be positive for the THDE model ensuring stability against perturbations, whereas for the RHDE model, $c_{s}^{2}<0$ implying instability against perturbations. Furthermore, I analyzed the evolutionary behavior of the EoS parameter of the HDE models by constructing the $\omega _{de}-\omega _{de}^{\prime }$ plane and find that the plane lies in the freezing region for the THDE model and in the thawing region for the RHDE model.

The evidence of cosmic acceleration and observational constraints

Abstract: Directly comparing the 6 expansion rate measured by type Ia supernovae data and the lower bound on the expansion rate set by the strong energy conditions or the null hypothesis that there never exists cosmic acceleration, we see $3\sigma$ direct evidence of cosmic acceleration and the $Rh=ct$ model is strongly excluded by the type Ia supernovae data. We also use Gaussian process method to reconstruct the expansion rate and the deceleration parameter from the 31 cosmic chronometers data and the 6 data points on the expansion rate measured from type Ia supernoave data, the direct evidence of cosmic acceleration is more than $3\sigma$ and we find that the transition redshift $z_t=0.60_{-0.12}^{+0.21}$ at which the expansion of the Universe underwent the transition from acceleration to deceleration. The Hubble constant inferred from the cosmic chronometers data with the Gaussian process method is $H_0=67.46\pm4.75$ Km/s/Mpc. To understand the properties of cosmic acceleration and dark energy, we fit two different two-parameter models to the observational data, and we find that the constraints on the model parameters from either the full distance modulus data by the Pantheon compilation or the compressed expansion rate data are very similar, and the derived Hubble constants are consistent with the Planck 2018 result. Our results confirm that the 6 compressed expansion rate data can replace the full 1048 distance modulus data from the Pantheon compilation. We derive the transition redshift $z_t=0.61_{-0.16}^{+0.24}$ by fitting a simple $q(z)$ model to the combination of cosmic chronometers data and the Pantheon compilation, the result is consistent with that obtained from the reconstruction with Gaussian process. Abridged.