Abstract
A previous analysis of starburst-dominated HII Galaxies and HII regions has demonstrated a statistically significant preference for the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmology with zero active mass, known as the Rh = ct universe, over CDM and its related dark-matter parametrizations. In this paper, we employ a 2-point diagnostic with these data to present a complementary statistical comparison of Rh = ct with Planck CDM. Our 2-point diagnostic compares-in a pairwise fashion-the difference between the distance modulus measured at two redshifts with that predicted by each cosmology.Our results support the conclusion drawn by a previous comparative analysis demonstrating that Rh = ct is statistically preferred over Planck CDM. But we also find that the reported errors in the HII measurements may not be purely Gaussian, perhaps due to a partial contamination by non-Gaussian systematic effects. The use of HII Galaxies and HII regions as standard candles may be improved even further with a better handling of the systematics in these sources.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Journal | Unknown Journal |
| State | Published - Nov 29 2017 |
Keywords
- Cosmology: Large-scale structure of the universe, cosmology: Observations, cosmology: Theory, distance scale
- Galaxies: General
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General