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FRIIb Radio Galaxies, Cosmology, and Quintessence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

Ruth A. Daly  and
Erick J. Guerra
Ruth A. Daly
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University, Department of Physics, P. 0. Box 7009, Reading, PA 19610-6009, USA
Erick J. Guerra
Affiliation:
Rowan University, Department of Chemistry and Physics, 201 Mullica Hill Road, Glassboro, NJ 08028, USA

Abstract

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FRIIb radio galaxies can be used as modified standard yardsticks to determine global cosmological parameters; the method is analogous to the use of supernovae type Ia as modified standard candles. FRIIb radio galaxies are observed to very high-redshift; the sources discussed here are fairly evenly distributed in redshift, with redshifts between zero and two. The sources can be used to determine the coordinate distance to high-redshift sources, and thus can constrain global cosmological parameters (just like the use of supernova type Ia to determine the coordinate distance, or luminosity distance, to high-redshift sources). Current constraints on global cosmological parameters and on quintessence obtained using FRIIb radio galaxies are presented.

Type
Part VII: Evidence for non-zero A
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 201: New Cosmological Data and the Values of the Fundamental Parameters , 2005 , pp. 264 - 267
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2005 

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