Gamma-Ray Burst Constraints on Cosmological Models from the Improved Amati Correlation

Abstract

Abstract An improved Amati correlation was constructed in ApJ 931 (2022) 50 by us recently. In this paper, we further study constraints on the ΛCDM and wCDM models from the gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) standardized with the standard and improved Amati correlations, respectively. By using the Pantheon Type Ia supernova sample to calibrate the latest A220 GRB data set, the GRB Hubble diagram is obtained model-independently. We find that at the high-redshift region (z > 1.4) the GRB distance modulus from the improved Amati correlation is larger apparently than that from the standard Amati one. The GRB data from the standard Amati correlation only give a lower bound limit on the present matter density parameter Ωm0, while the GRBs from the improved Amati correlation constrain the Ωm0 with the 68% confidence level to be 0.308 − 0.230 + 0.066 and 0.307 − 0.290 + 0.057 in the ΛCDM and wCDM models, respectively, which are very consistent with those given by other current popular observational data including baryon acoustic oscillation, cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, and so on. Once the H(z) data are added in our analysis, the constraint on the Hubble constant H 0 can be achieved. We find that two different correlations provide slightly different H 0 results but the marginalized mean values seem to be close to that from the Planck 2018 CMB radiation observations.