Constraints from the old quasar APM 08279+5255 on two classes of (t)-cosmologies

DOI10.1007/S10714-007-0533-0MaRDI QIDQ934864zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors José F. Jesus

Publication date 30 July 2008

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0603142

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

Abstract: The viability of two different classes of $Lambda(t)$CDM cosmologies is tested by using the APM 08279+5255, an old quasar at redshift $z=3.91$. In the first class of models, the cosmological term scales as $Lambda(t)sim{R}^{-n}$. The particular case $n=0$ describes the standard $Lambda$CDM model whereas $n=2$ stands for the Chen and Wu model. For an estimated age of 2 Gyr, it is found that the power index has a lower limit $n>0.21$, whereas for 3 Gyr the limit is $n>0.6$. Since $n$ can not be so large as $sim0.81$, the $Lambda$CDM and Chen and Wu models are also ruled out by this analysis. The second class of models is the one recently proposed by Wang and Meng which describes several $Lambda(t)$CDM cosmologies discussed in the literature. By assuming that the true age is 2 Gyr it is found that the $epsilon$ parameter satisfies the lower bound $epsilon>0.11$, while for 3 Gyr, a lower limit of $epsilon>0.52$ is obtained. Such limits are slightly modified when the baryonic component is included.

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