Constraining the curvature density parameter in cosmology

Purba Mukherjee and Narayan Banerjee
Phys. Rev. D 105, 063516 – Published 15 March 2022

Abstract

The cosmic curvature density parameter has been constrained in the present work independent of any background cosmological model. The reconstruction is undertaken adopting the nonparametric Gaussian processes (GP). The constraints on Ωk0 are obtained via a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) analysis. Late-time cosmological probes viz., the supernova (SN) distance modulus data, the cosmic chronometer (CC) and the radial baryon acoustic oscillations (rBAO) measurements of the Hubble data have been utilized for this purpose. The results are further combined with the data from redshift space distortions (RSD) which studies the growth of large scale structure in the universe. The only a priori assumption is that the universe is homogeneous and isotropic, described by the Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker metric. Results indicate that a spatially flat universe is well consistent in 2σ within the domain of reconstruction 0<z<2 for the background data. On combining the RSD data we find that the results obtained are consistent with spatial flatness mostly within 2σ and always within 3σ in the domain of reconstruction 0<z<2.

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  • Received 10 October 2021
  • Accepted 15 February 2022

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.105.063516

© 2022 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Gravitation, Cosmology & Astrophysics

Authors & Affiliations

Purba Mukherjee* and Narayan Banerjee

  • Department of Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Mohanpur, West Bengal - 741246, India

  • *pm14ip011@iiserkol.ac.in
  • narayan@iiserkol.ac.in

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Vol. 105, Iss. 6 — 15 March 2022

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