Testing late-time cosmic acceleration with uncorrelated baryon acoustic oscillation dataset

Abstract

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) involve measuring the spatial distribution of galaxies to determine the growth rate of cosmic structures. We derive constraints on cosmological parameters from 17 uncorrelated BAO measurements that were collected from 333 published data points in the effective redshift range 0.106 ≤ z ≤ 2.36. We test the correlation of the subset using a random covariance matrix. The Λ cold dark matter (ΛCDM) model fit yields the cosmological parameters Ωm = 0.261 ± 0.028 and ΩΛ = 0.733 ± 0.021. Combining the BAO data with the Cosmic Chronometers data, the Pantheon type Ia supernova, and the Hubble diagram of gamma-ray bursts and quasars, the Hubble constant yields 69.85 ± 1.27 km s−1 Mpc−1 and the sound horizon distance gives 146.1 ± 2.15 Mpc. Beyond the ΛCDM model we test ΩkCDM and wCDM. The spatial curvature is Ωk = −0.076 ± 0.012 and the dark energy equation of states is w = −0.989 ± 0.049. We perform the Akaike information criteria test to compare the three models, and see that ΛCDM scores best.