Cosmological transition epoch from gamma-ray burst correlations

Abstract

The redshift zt and the jerk parameter jt of the transition epoch are constrained by using two model-independent approaches involving the direct expansion of the Hubble rate and the expansion of the deceleration parameter around z=zt. To extend our analysis to high-redshifts, we employ the Amati, Combo, Yonetoku and Dainotti gamma-ray burst correlations. The circularity problem is prevented by calibrating these correlations through the Bézier interpolation of the updated observational Hubble data. Each gamma-ray burst data set is jointly fit with type Ia supernovae and baryonic acoustic oscillations through a Monte Carlo analysis, based on the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm, to obtain zt, jt and the correlation parameters. The overall results are compatible with the concordance model with some exceptions. We also focus on the behaviors of the dark energy, verifying its compatibility with a cosmological constant, and the matter density Ωm and compare them with the expectations of the concordance paradigm.