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20172025
most citedUsing Pantheon and DES supernova, baryon acoustic oscillation, and Hubble parameter data to constrain the Hubble constant, dark energy dynamics, and spatial curvature

106 citations · 726 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

astro-ph.GA2025

Standardizing reverberation-mapped H active galactic nuclei using time-averaged radiusluminosity relations with 5100\,Å\,, broad H, and narrow \OIII\ luminosities

Shulei Cao, Amit Kumar Mandal, Michal Zajaček +1

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) have been studied as alternate probes in cosmology due to their large and stable luminosities and broad redshift range. Previously it was shown that hi…

astro-ph.GA2025

Standardizing a larger, higher-quality, homogeneous sample of reverberation-mapped H active galactic nuclei using the broad-line region radius-luminosity relation

Shulei Cao, Amit Kumar Mandal, Michal Zajaček +1

We present a high-quality, homogeneous sample of 157 H reverberation-mapped active galactic nuclei (RM AGNs) spanning redshifts , which is approximat…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 4 cited

Testing the consistency of new Amati-correlated gamma-ray burst dataset cosmological constraints with those from better-established cosmological data

Shulei Cao, Bharat Ratra

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are promising cosmological probes for exploring the Universe at intermediate redshifts (). We analyze 151 Fermi-observed long GRBs (datasets A123 and A28…

astro-ph.GA2024

Standardizing reverberation-mapped H and H active galactic nuclei using radius--luminosity relations involving monochromatic and broad H luminosities

Shulei Cao, Amit Kumar Mandal, Michal Zajaček +2

We test the standardizability of a homogeneous sample of 41 lower-redshift () active galactic nuclei (AGNs) reverberation-mapped (RM) using the broad H…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 12 cited

Testing the standardizability of, and deriving cosmological constraints from, a new Amati-correlated gamma-ray burst data compilation

Shulei Cao, Bharat Ratra

By using gamma-ray burst (GRB) data to simultaneously constrain Amati correlation parameters and cosmological parameters in six spatially-flat and nonflat dark energy cosmological…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 8 cited

Low- and high-redshift H II starburst galaxies obey different luminosity-velocity dispersion relations

Shulei Cao, Bharat Ratra

To determine whether or not H II starburst galaxies (H IIG) are standardizable candles, we study the correlation between the H luminosity () and the velocity dispersion ()…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 12 cited

Effects of heterogeneous data sets and time-lag measurement techniques on cosmological parameter constraints from MgII and CIV reverberation-mapped quasar data

Shulei Cao, Michal Zajaček, Bożena Czerny +2

Previously, we demonstrated that MgII and CIV reverberation-mapped quasars (RM QSOs) are standardizable and that the cosmological parameters inferred using the broad-line region ra…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 56 cited

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

Shulei Cao, Bharat Ratra

We use updated Type Ia Pantheon+ supernova, baryon acoustic oscillation, and Hubble parameter (now also accounting for correlations) data, as well as new reverberation-measured C I…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 22 cited

Accretion disks, quasars and cosmology: meandering towards understanding

Bozena Czerny, Shulei Cao, Vikram Kumar Jaiswal +11

As Setti & Woltjer noted back in 1973, quasars could be used to construct the Hubble diagram but the actual application was not that straightforward. It took years to implement the…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 34 cited

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

Shulei Cao, Michal Zajaček, Swayamtrupta Panda +3

We use 38 C IV quasar (QSO) reverberation-mapped (RM) observations, which span eight orders of magnitude in luminosity and the redshift range , to simul…

astro-ph.CO2022

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

Shulei Cao, Bharat Ratra

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 size, H…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 50 cited

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

Shulei Cao, Maria Dainotti, Bharat Ratra

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), observed to redshift , are potential probes of the largely unexplored part of the early Universe. Thus, finding relevant relations a…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 9 cited

Potentialities of Hubble parameter and expansion rate function data to alleviate Hubble tension

Yingjie Yang, Xuchen Lu, Lei Qian +1

Taking advantage of Gaussian process (GP), we obtain an improved estimate of the Hubble constant, km s Mpc, using Hubble parameter [] from co…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 82 cited

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

Shulei Cao, Maria Dainotti, Bharat Ratra

We show that the Platinum gamma-ray burst (GRB) data compilation, probing the redshift range , obeys a cosmological-model-independent three-parameter fundame…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 75 cited

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

Shulei Cao, Narayan Khadka, Bharat Ratra

We show that each of the three Dainotti-correlated gamma-ray burst (GRB) data sets recently compiled by Wang et al. and Hu et al., that together probe the redshift range $0.35 \leq…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 33 cited

Cosmological constraints from HII starburst galaxy, quasar angular size, and other measurements

Shulei Cao, Joseph Ryan, Bharat Ratra

We compare the constraints from two (2019 and 2021) compilations of HII starburst galaxy (HIIG) data and test the model-independence of quasar angular size (QSO) data using six spa…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 18 cited

Cosmological Constraints on the Coupling Model from Observational Hubble Parameter and Baryon Acoustic Oscillation Measurements

Shulei Cao, Tong-Jie Zhang, Xinya Wang +1

In the paper, we consider two models in which dark energy is coupled with either dust matter or dark matter, and discuss the conditions that allow more time for structure formation…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 106 cited

Using Pantheon and DES supernova, baryon acoustic oscillation, and Hubble parameter data to constrain the Hubble constant, dark energy dynamics, and spatial curvature

Shulei Cao, Joseph Ryan, Bharat Ratra

We use Pantheon Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) apparent magnitude, DES-3yr binned SN Ia apparent magnitude, Hubble parameter, and baryon acoustic oscillation measurements to constrain s…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 54 cited

Cosmological constraints from higher-redshift gamma-ray burst, HII starburst galaxy, and quasar (and other) data

Shulei Cao, Joseph Ryan, Narayan Khadka +1

We use higher-redshift gamma-ray burst (GRB), HII starburst galaxy (HIIG), and quasar angular size (QSO-AS) measurements to constrain six spatially flat and non-flat cosmological m…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 62 cited

Cosmological constraints from HII starburst galaxy apparent magnitude and other cosmological measurements

Shulei Cao, Joseph Ryan, Bharat Ratra

We use HII starburst galaxy apparent magnitude measurements to constrain cosmological parameters in six cosmological models. A joint analysis of HII galaxy, quasar angular size, ba…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 11 cited

Testing the Universe Jointly with the Redshift-dependent Expansion rate and Angular-diameter and Luminosity Distances

Hao-Yi Wan, Shu-Lei Cao, Fulvio Melia +1

We use three different data sets, specifically measurements from cosmic chronometers, the HII-galaxy Hubble diagram, and reconstructed quasar-core angular-size measurements,…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 34 cited

Cosmological model-independent test of CDM with two-point diagnostic by the observational Hubble parameter data

Shu-Lei Cao, Xiao-Wei Duan, Xiao-Lei Meng +1

Aiming at exploring the nature of dark energy (DE), we use forty-three observational Hubble parameter data (OHD) in the redshift range to make a cosmological…

gr-qc2017★ 34 cited

Statefinder diagnostic and constraints on the Palatini f(R) gravity theories

Shu-Lei Cao, Song Li, Hao-Ran Yu +1

We focus on a series of gravity theories in Palatini formalism to investigate the probabilities of producing the late-time acceleration for the flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walk…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 10 cited

Testing backreaction effects with observational Hubble parameter data

Shu-Lei Cao, Huan-Yu Teng, Hao-Ran Yu +2

In order to explore the generic properties of a backreaction model for explaining the accelerated expansion of the Universe, we exploit two metrics to describe the late time Univer…