Current constraints on anisotropic and isotropic dark energy models

Abstract

We use Gaussian processes in combination with MCMC method to place constraints on cosmological parameters of three dark energy models including flat and curved FRW and Bianchi type I spacetimes. To do so, we use recently compiled 36 measurements of the Hubble parameter $H(z)$ in the redshifts intermediate $0.07\leqslant z \leqslant 2.36$. Moreover, we use these models to estimate the redshift of the deceleration-acceleration transition. We consider two Gaussian priors for current value of the Hubble constant i.e $H_{0}=73\pm1.74 (68\pm 2.8)$ km/s/Mpc to investigate the effect of the assumed $H_{0}$ on our parameters estimations. For statistical analysis we use NUTS sampler which is an extension of Hamiltonian Monte Carlo algorithm to generate MCMC chains for parameters of dark energy models. To compare the considered cosmologies, we perform Akaike information criterion (AIC) and Bayes factor ($\Psi$). In general, when we compared our results with 9 years WMAP as well as Planck 2015 Collaboration, we found that Bianchi type I model is slightly fits better to the observational Hubble data with respect to the non-flat FRW model.