Constraining Bianchi type I universe with type Ia supernova and H(z) data

Abstract

Abstract We use recent 36 observational Hubble data (OHD) in the redshift range 0 . 07 ≤ z ≤ 2 . 36 , latest “joint light curves” (JLA) sample, comprised of 740 type Ia supernovae (SNIa) in the redshift range 0 . 01 ≤ z ≤ 1 . 30 , and their joint combination datasets to constrain anisotropic Bianchi type I (BI) dark energy (DE) model. To estimate model parameters, we apply Hamiltonian Monte Carlo technique. We also compute the covariance matrix for BI dark energy model by considering different datasets to compare the correlation between model parameters. To check the acceptability of our fittings, all results are compared with those obtained from 9 year WMAP as well as Planck (2015) collaboration. Our estimations show that at 68% confidence level the dark energy equation of state (EOS) parameter for OHD or JLA datasets alone varies between quintessence and phantom regions whereas for OHD+JLA dataset this parameter only varies in phantom region. It is also found that the current cosmic anisotropy is of order ∼ 1 0 − 3 which imply that the OHD and JLA datasets do not put tight constraint on this parameter. Therefore, to constraint anisotropy parameter, it is necessary to use high redshift dataset namely cosmic microwave background (CMB). Moreover, from the calculation of p -value associated with χ 2 statistic we observed that non of the ω BI and flat ω CDM models rule out by OHD or JLA datasets. The deceleration parameter is obtained as q = − 0 . 4 6 − 0 . 41 − 0 . 37 + 0 . 89 + 0 . 36 , q = − 0 . 61 9 − 0 . 095 − 0 . 24 + 0 . 12 + 0 . 20 , and q = − 0 . 5 2 − 0 . 046 − 0 . 15 + 0 . 080 + 0 . 014 for OHD, SNIa, and OHD+SNIa data respectively.