Deceleration parameter

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

Evidence for anisotropy of cosmic acceleration

Abstract: Observations reveal a `bulk flow' in the local Universe which is faster and extends to much larger scales than is expected around a typical observer in the standard $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. This is expected to result in a scale-dependent dipolar modulation of the acceleration of the expansion rate inferred from observations of objects within the bulk flow. From a maximum-likelihood analysis of the Joint Lightcurve Analysis (JLA) catalogue of Type Ia supernovae we find that the deceleration parameter, in addition to a small monopole, indeed has a much bigger dipole component aligned with the CMB dipole which falls exponentially with redshift $z$: $q_0 = q_\mathrm{m} + \vec{q}_\mathrm{d}.\hat{n}\exp(-z/S)$. The best fit to data yields $q_\mathrm{d} = -8.03$ and $S = 0.0262~(\Rightarrow d \sim 100~\mathrm{Mpc})$, rejecting isotropy ($q_\mathrm{d} = 0$) with $3.9\sigma$ statistical significance, while $q_\mathrm{m} = -0.157$ and consistent with no acceleration ($q_\mathrm{m} = 0$) at $1.4\sigma$. Thus the cosmic acceleration deduced from supernovae may be an artefact of our being non-Copernican observers, rather than evidence for a dominant component of `dark energy' in the Universe.

Bianchi Type III Anisotropic Dark Energy Models with Constant Deceleration Parameter

Abstract: The Bianchi type III dark energy model with constant deceleration parameter is investigated. The equation of state parameter ω is found to be time dependent and its existing range for this model is consistent with the recent observations of SN Ia data, SN Ia data (with CMBR anisotropy) and galaxy clustering statistics. The physical aspects of the dark energy models is discussed.

Cosmological Constraints on the Sign-Changeable Interactions

Abstract: Recently, Cai and Su (Phys. Rev. D 81 (2010) 103514) found that the sign of interaction Q in the dark sector changed in the approximate redshift range of 0.45 �z �0.9, by using a model-independent method to deal with the observational data. In fact, this result raises a remarkable problem, since most of the familiar interactions cannot change their signs in the whole cosmic history. Motivated by the work of Cai and Su, we have proposed a new type of interaction in a previous work (H. Wei, Nucl. Phys. B 845 (2011) 381). The key ingredient is the deceleration parameter q in the interaction Q, and hence the interaction Q can change its sign when our universe changes from deceleration (q > 0) to acceleration (q < 0). In the present work, we consider the cosmological constraints on this new type of sign-changeable interactions, by using the latest observational data. We find that the cosmological constraints on the model parameters are fairly tight. In particular, the key parametercan be constrained to a narrow range. mological coincidence problem has an important position. This problem asks: why are we living in an epoch in which the densities of dark energy and matter are comparable? Since their densities scale differently with the expansion of our universe, there should be some fine-tunings. To allevi- ate this coincidence problem, it is natural to consider the possible interaction between dark energy and dark matter

Bianchi Type-$V$ cosmology in $f(R,T)$ gravity with $\Lambda(T)$

Abstract: A new class of cosmological models in $f(R, T)$ modified theories of gravity proposed by Harko et al. (2011), where the gravitational Lagrangian is given by an arbitrary function of Ricci scalar $R$ and the trace of the stress-energy tensor $T$, have been investigated for a specific choice of $f(R, T) = f_{1}(R) + f_{2}(T)$ by considering time dependent deceleration parameter. The concept of time dependent deceleration parameter (DP) with some proper assumptions yield the average scale factor $a(t) = \sinh^{\frac{1}{n}}(\alpha t)$, where $n$ and $\alpha$ are positive constants. For $0 1$, the models of universe exhibit phase transition from early decelerating phase to present accelerating phase which is in good agreement with the results from recent astrophysical observations. Our intention is to reconstruct $f(R,T)$ models inspired by this special law for the deceleration parameter in connection with the theories of modified gravity. In the present study we consider the cosmological constant $\Lambda$ as a function of the trace of the stress energy-momentum-tensor, and dub such a model "$\Lambda(T)$ gravity" where we have specified a certain form of $\Lambda(T)$. Such models may display better uniformity with the cosmological observations. The statefinder diagnostic pair $\{r,s\}$ parameter has been embraced to characterize different phases of the universe. We also discuss the physical consequences of the derived models.