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most citedUltra-compact structure in intermediate-luminosity radio quasars: building a sample of standard cosmological rulers and improving the dark energy constraints up to

115 citations · 945 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

astro-ph.CO2024

Constraining on the non-standard cosmological models combining the observations of high-redshift quasars and BAO

Ziqiang Liu, Tonghua Liu, Xinyi Zhong +2

In this work, we studied four types of cosmological models with different mechanisms driving the accelerated expansion of the universe, include Braneworld models, Chaplygin Gas mod…

astro-ph.CO2024

Distinguishing CDM from evolving dark energy with the future gravitational-wave space-borne detector DECIGO

Yuting Liu, Shuo Cao, Xiaogang Zheng +3

The two point diagnostics was proposed as a litmus test of CDM model and measurements of cosmic expansion rate have been extensively used to perform this…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 23 cited

Redshift evolution of the Amati relation: calibrated results from the Hubble diagram of quasars at high redshifts

Yan Dai, Xiao-Gang Zheng, Zheng-Xiang Li +2

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have long been proposed as a complementary probe to type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) and cosmic microwave background to explore the expansion history of the high…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 50 cited

Hubble diagram at higher redshifts: Model independent calibration of quasars

Xiaolei Li, Ryan E. Keeley, Arman Shafieloo +4

In this paper, we present a model-independent approach to calibrate the largest quasar sample. Calibrating quasar samples is essentially constraining the parameters of the linear r…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 25 cited

Multiple measurements of quasars acting as standard probes: model independent calibration and exploring the Dark Energy Equation of States

Xiaogang Zheng, Shuo Cao, Marek Biesiada +3

Recently, two classes of quasar samples were identified, which are promising as new cosmological probes extending to higher redshifts. The first sample uses the nonlinear relation…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 21 cited

Model-independent constraints on cosmic curvature: implication from the future gravitational wave observation DECIGO

Xiaogang Zheng, Shuo Cao, Yuting Liu +5

A model-independent test of the cosmic curvature parameter is very important in cosmology. In order to estimate cosmic curvature from cosmological probes like standard candle…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 47 cited

Multiple measurements of quasars acing as standard probes: exploring the cosmic distance duality relation at higher redshift

Xiaogang Zheng, Kai Liao, Marek Biesiada +3

General relativity reproduces main current cosmological observations, assuming the validity of cosmic distance duality relation (CDDR) at all scales and epochs. However, CDDR is po…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 13 cited

The gas depletion factor in galaxy clusters: implication from Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarization experiment measurements

Xiaogang Zheng, Jing-Zhao Qi, Shuo Cao +4

The gas depletion factor , i.e., the average ratio of the gas mass fraction to the cosmic mean baryon fraction of galaxy clusters, plays a very important role in the cosmolog…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 48 cited

Testing the speed of light over cosmological distances: the combination of strongly lensed and unlensed supernova Ia

Shuo Cao, Jingzhao Qi, Marek Biesiada +3

Probing the speed of light is as an important test of General Relativity but the measurements of using objects in the distant universe have been almost completely unexplored. I…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 7 cited

Statistical analysis with cosmic-expansion-rate measurements and two-point diagnostics

Xiaogang Zheng, Marek Biesiada, Xuheng Ding +3

Direct measurements of Hubble parameters are very useful for cosmological model parameters inference. Based on them, Sahni, Shafieloo and Starobinski introduced a two-point…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 38 cited

Strongly gravitational lensed SNe Ia as multi-messengers: Direct test of the Friedmann-Lema\^ıtre-Robertson-Walker metric

Jing-Zhao Qi, Shou Cao, Marek Biesiada +3

We present a new idea of testing the validity of the Friedman-Lema\^ıtre-Robertson-Walker metric, through the multiple measurements of galactic-scale strong gravitational lensing s…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 41 cited

Cosmological inference from standard sirens without redshift measurements

Xuheng Ding, Marek Biesiada, Xiaogang Zheng +3

The purpose of this work is to investigate the prospects of using the future standard siren data without redshift measurements to constrain cosmological parameters. With successful…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 4 cited

Testing and selecting cosmological models with ultra-compact radio quasars

Xiaolei Li, Shuo Cao, Xiaogang Zheng +3

In this paper, we place constraints on four alternative cosmological models under the assumption of the spatial flatness of the Universe: CPL, EDE, GCG and MPC. A new compilation o…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 115 cited

Ultra-compact structure in intermediate-luminosity radio quasars: building a sample of standard cosmological rulers and improving the dark energy constraints up to

Shuo Cao, Xiaogang Zheng, Marek Biesiada +3

In this paper, we present a new compiled milliarcsecond compact radio data set of 120 intermediate-luminosity quasars in the redshift range . These quasars show negl…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 62 cited

New observational constraints on cosmology from radio quasars

Jing-Zhao Qi, Shuo Cao, Marek Biesiada +2

Using a new recently compiled milliarcsecond compact radio data set of 120 intermediate-luminosity quasars in the redshift range , whose statistical linear sizes sho…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 30 cited

Cosmological investigation of multi-frequency VLBI observations of ultra-compact structure in radio quasars

Shuo Cao, Marek Biesiada, Jingzhao Qi +5

In this paper, we use multi-frequency angular size measurements of 58 intermediate-luminosity quasars reaching the redshifts and demonstrate that they can be used as stan…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 46 cited

A new test of gravity with the cosmological standard rulers in radio quasars

Tengpeng Xu, Shuo Cao, Jingzhao Qi +3

As an important candidate gravity theory alternative to dark energy, a class of modified gravity, which introduces a perturbation of the Ricci scalar in the Einstein-Hil…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 1 cited

Milliarcsecond compact structure in radio quasars and the geometry of the universe

Shuo Cao, Jingzhao Qi, Marek Biesiada +4

In this paper, by using the recently compiled set of 120 intermediate-luminosity quasars (ILQSO) observed in a single-frequency VLBI survey, we propose an improved model-independen…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 20 cited

Ultra-compact structure in radio quasars as a cosmological probe: a revised study of the interaction between cosmic dark sectors

Xiaogang Zheng, Marek Biesiada, Shuo Cao +2

A new compilation of angular-size/redshift data for compact radio quasars from very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) surveys motivates us to revisit the interaction betwee…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 95 cited

Measuring the speed of light with ultra-compact radio quasars

Shuo Cao, Marek Biesiada, John Jackson +3

In this paper, based on a 2.29 GHz VLBI all-sky survey of 613 milliarcsecond ultra-compact radio sources with , we describe a method of identifying the sub-sample w…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 83 cited

What are and diagnostics telling us in light of data?

Xiaogang Zheng, Xuheng Ding, Marek Biesiada +2

Two-point diagnostics and have been introduced as an interesting tool for testing the validity of the CDM model. Quite recently, Sahni, Shafieloo…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 32 cited

Testing the gas mass density profile of galaxy clusters with distance duality relation

Shuo Cao, Marek Biesiada, Xiaogang Zheng +1

In this paper, assuming the validity of distance duality relation, , where and are the angular and the luminosity distance respective…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 90 cited

The Distance Duality Relation from Strong Gravitational Lensing

Kai Liao, Zhengxiang Li, Shuo Cao +3

Under very general assumptions of metric theory of spacetime, photons traveling along null geodesics and photon number conservation, two observable concepts of cosmic distance, i.e…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 17 cited

Comparison of cosmological models using standard rulers and candles

Xiaolei Li, Shuo Cao, Xiaogang Zheng +2

In this paper, we used standard rulers and standard candles (separately and jointly) to explore five popular dark energy models under assumption of spatial flatness of the Universe…