Variable Chaplygin Gas: Constraints from Supernovae, GRB and Gravitational Wave Merger Events

TL;DR

This study constrains the Variable Chaplygin gas cosmological model using diverse observational data, demonstrating its compatibility with current measurements and refining key parameters through MCMC analysis.

Contribution

It provides new observational constraints on the Variable Chaplygin gas model parameters using supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, and gravitational wave data, enhancing understanding of dark matter and dark energy interaction.

Findings

Compatible with supernovae and gravitational wave data

Tighter constraints on parameters $B_s$ and $n$ from Pantheon sample

Combined data yields refined cosmological parameter estimates

Abstract

We investigate the cosmological constraints on the Variable Chaplygin gas model from the latest observational data: SCP Union 2.1 compilation dataset of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), Pantheon sample of SNe Ia, Platinum Sample of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRB) and GWTC-3 of gravitational wave merger events. Variable Chaplygin gas is a model of interacting dark matter and dark energy, which interpolates from a dust-dominated era to a quintessence-dominated era. The Variable Chaplygin gas model is shown to be compatible with Type Ia Supernovae and gravitational merger data. We have obtained tighter constraints on cosmological parameters $B_s$ and $n$, using the Pantheon sample. By using the Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method on the Pantheon sample, we obtain $B_s$=0.108 $\pm$ 0.034, n=1.157 $\pm$ 0.513 and $H_0$=70.020 $\pm$ 0.407, for GRBs, we obtain $B_s$=0.20 $\pm$ 0.11, n=1.45 $\pm$ 1.40 and $H_0$=70.41 $\pm$ 0.67} and on GWTC-3, we obtain $B_s$=0.130 $\pm$ 0.076, n=0.897 $\pm$ 1.182 and $H_0$=69.838 $\pm$ 3.007. The combined constraints from the above data sets are $B_s$=0.11 $\pm$ 0.03, n=1.14 $\pm$ 0.36 and $H_0$=70.34 $\pm$ 0.61