Dark energy and cosmic curvature: Monte-Carlo Markov Chain approach

Abstract

We use the Monte-Carlo Markov Chain method to explore the dark energy property and the cosmic curvature by fitting two popular dark energy parameterizations to the observational data. The new 182 gold supernova Ia data and the ESSENCE data both give good constraint on the DE parameters and the cosmic curvature for the dark energy model $w_0+w_{a}z/(1+z)$. The cosmic curvature is found to be $|Ω_k|\la 0.03$. For the dark energy model $w_0+w_{a}z/(1+z{)}^2$, the ESSENCE data gives better constraint on the cosmic curvature and we get $|{\Omega }_k|\le 0.02$.

arXiv comment10 figures, revised version: clarify the marginalization on H_0 and the use of the covariance matrix, accepted for publication in ApJ

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