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    Case for dynamical dark energy revisited
    (2011-07-06) Alam, Ujjaini; Sahni, Varun; Starobinsky, A. A.
    We investigate the behaviour of dark energy using the recently released supernova data of Riess et al., 2004 and a model independent parameterization for dark energy (DE). We find that, if no priors are imposed on Ω0m and h, DE which evolves with time provides a better fit to the SNe data than ΛCDM. This is also true if we include results from the WMAP CMB data. From a joint analysis of SNe+CMB, the best-fit DE model has w0 < ∼ − 1 at the present epoch and the transition from deceleration to acceleration occurs at zT = 0.39±0.03. However, DE evolution becomes weaker if the ΛCDM based CMB results Ω0m = 0.27 ± 0.04, h = 0.71 ± 0.06 are incorporated in the analysis. In this case, zT = 0.57±0.07. Our results also show that the extent of DE evolution is sensitive to the manner in which the supernova data is sampled.