2012

Linear dark energy equation of state revealed by supernovae?

Salzano, Vincenzo, Wang, Yun, Sendra, Irene et al.

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In this letter we propose a test to detect the linearity of the dark energy equation of state, and apply it to two different Type Ia Supernova (SN Ia) data sets, Union2.1 and SNLS3.

  • We find that: a.
  • current SN Ia data are well described by a dark energy equation of state linear in the cosmic scale factor a, at least up to a redshift z = 1, independent of the pivot points chosen for the linear relation; b.
  • there is no significant evidence of any deviation from linearity.

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