, , and other constraints from lower-redshift, non-CMB, expansion-rate data

S Cao, B Ratra - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We use updated type Ia Pantheon+ supernova, baryon acoustic oscillation, and Hubble
parameter (now also accounting for correlations) data, as well as new reverberation …

High Eddington quasars as discovery tools: Current state and challenges

S Panda, P Marziani - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2023 - frontiersin.org
A landmark of accretion processes in active galactic nuclei (AGN) is the continuum
originating from a complex structure, ie, an accretion disk and a corona around a …

Using lower redshift, non-CMB, data to constrain the Hubble constant and other cosmological parameters

S Cao, B Ratra - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We use updated Hubble parameter and baryon acoustic oscillation data, as well as other
lower redshift Type Ia supernova, Mg ii reverberation-measured quasar, quasar angular …

Standardizing Platinum Dainotti-correlated gamma-ray bursts, and using them with standardized Amati-correlated gamma-ray bursts to constrain cosmological model …

S Cao, M Dainotti, B Ratra - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We show that the Platinum gamma-ray burst (GRB) data compilation, probing the redshift
range 0.553≤ z≤ 5.0, obeys a cosmological-model-independent three-parameter …

Past, Present, and Future of the Scaling Relations of Galaxies and Active Galactic Nuclei

M D'Onofrio, P Marziani, C Chiosi - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
We review the properties of the established Scaling Relations (SRs) of galaxies and active
galactic nuclei (AGN), focusing on their origin and expected evolution back in time, providing …

Quasar UV/X-ray relation luminosity distances are shorter than reverberation-measured radius–luminosity relation luminosity distances

N Khadka, M Zajaček, R Prince, S Panda… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We use measurements of 59/58 quasars (QSOs), over a redshift range 0.0041≤ z≤ 1.686,
to do a comparative study of the radius–luminosity (R− L) and X-ray− UV luminosity (LX …

Do quasar X-ray and UV flux measurements provide a useful test of cosmological models?

N Khadka, B Ratra - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The recent compilation of quasar (QSO) X-ray and ultraviolet (UV) flux measurements
include QSOs that appear to not be standardizable via the X-ray luminosity and UV …

Gamma-ray burst data strongly favour the three-parameter fundamental plane (Dainotti) correlation over the two-parameter one

S Cao, M Dainotti, B Ratra - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), observed to redshift z= 9.4, are potential probes of
the largely unexplored z∼ 2.7–9.4 part of the early Universe. Thus, finding relevant relations …

Standardizing reverberation-measured C iv time-lag quasars, and using them with standardized Mg ii quasars to constrain cosmological parameters

S Cao, M Zajaček, S Panda… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We use 38 C iv quasar (QSO) reverberation-mapped observations, which span eight orders
of magnitude in luminosity and the redshift range 0.001064≤ z≤ 3.368, to simultaneously …

Effect of extinction on quasar luminosity distances determined from UV and X-ray flux measurements

M Zajaček, B Czerny, N Khadka… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
In Khadka et al., a sample of X-ray-detected reverberation-mapped quasars was presented
and applied for the comparison of cosmological constraints inferred using two well …