Forecasting cosmological constraints from age of high-z galaxies

Aug 28, 2013
4 pages
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  • Astron.Astrophys. 561 (2014) A44
  • Published: Dec 23, 2013
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Abstract: (EDP Sciences)
We perform Monte Carlo simulations based on current age estimates ofhigh-z objects to forecast constraints on the equation of state (EoS)of the dark energy. In our analysis, we use two different EoS parameterizations, namely,the so-called Chevallier-Polarski-Linder (CPL) and its uncorrelated form, and calculatethe improvements on the figure of merit (FoM) for both cases. Although there is a cleardependence of the FoM with the size and accuracy of the synthetic age samples, we findthat the most substantial gain in FoM comes from a joint analysis involving age and baryonacoustic oscillation data.
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  • 4 pages, 13 figures, latex