Cosmology seminar: Levon Pogosian: Fables of reconstruction: examining the evidence for dynamical dark energy

Levon Pogosian is Professor at the Simon Fraser University in Canada visiting David

I will describe a new non-parametric Bayesian method for reconstructing the
evolution history of the dark energy equation of state, based on applying a
correlated prior for w(z). When applied to the latest supernova, CMB, redshift space
distortion and the baryonic acoustic oscillation measurements, it mildly favors a
dynamical dark energy model which evolves across w=-1. An examination of the
Bayesian evidences does not show significant preference of this dynamical model over
a cosmological constant.  However, we show that the best fit models for current data
will be well distinguished from the LCDM model by future observations.

 

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