Journal
PHYSICS LETTERS B
Volume 699, Issue 4, Pages 239-245Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2011.04.014
Keywords
Cosmology; Dark energy; Cosmological parameters
Funding
- CNPq [481784/2008-0]
- DOE [DE-FG03-99EP41093]
- SNSF [128040]
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The absence of guidance from fundamental physics about the mechanism behind cosmic acceleration has given rise to a number of alternative cosmological scenarios. These are based either on modifications of general relativistic gravitation theory on large scales or on the existence of new fields in Nature. In this Letter we investigate the observational viability of some accelerating cosmological models in light of 32 age measurements of passively evolving galaxies as a function of redshift and recent estimates of the product of the cosmic microwave background acoustic scale and the baryonic acoustic oscillation peak scale. By using information-criteria model selection, we select the best-fit models and rank the alternative scenarios. We show that some of these models may provide a better fit to the data than does the current standard cosmological constant dominated (ACDM) model. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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