A Cosmology-Independent Calibration of Gamma-Ray Burst Luminosity Relations and the Hubble Diagram

By N. Liang, Weike Xiao, Yuan Liu, Shuang-Nan Zhang. 2008

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An important concern in the application of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) to cosmology is that the calibration of GRB luminosity/energy relations depends on the cosmological model, due to the lack of a sufficient low-redshift GRB sample. In this paper, we present a new method to calibrate GRB relations in a cosmology-independent way. Since objects at the same redshift should have the same luminosity distance, and since the distance moduli of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) obtained directly from observations are completely cosmology independent, we obtain the distance modulus of a GRB at a given redshift by interpolating from the Hubble diagram of SNe Ia. Then we calibrate seven GRB relations without assuming a particular cosmological model and construct a GRB Hubble diagram to constrain cosmological parameters. From the 42 GRBs at 1.4 < z ⩽ 6.6, we obtain ΩM = 0.25+ 0.04−0.05, ΩΛ = 0.75+ 0.05−0.04 for the flat ΛCDM model, and for the dark energy model with a constant equation of state w0 = − 1.05+ 0.27−0.40, which is consistent with the concordance model in a 1 σ confidence region.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Measuring the cosmological parameters with the Ep,i–Eiso correlation of gamma-ray bursts (2008, result): “On the other hand the calibration of a spectrum–energy correlation using SNe-Ia as calibrators (Kodama et al. 2008; Liang et al. 2008) is an interesting attempt to use GRBs as cosmological probes, but it may look suspicious that this method gives very similar results to those obtained via SNe.”
The physics of gamma-ray bursts & relativistic jets (2014, methodology): “The derived cosmological parameters using the calibrated candles are again found consistent with the concordance model (Liang et al., 2008b).”