2010/05/02 by V. F. Cardone, M. G. Dainotti, S. Capozziello +1 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #astro-ph.CO
paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17197.x
6 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables, submitted
arxiv created 2010/05/02 · arxiv updated 2015/05/18
We present the Hubble diagram (HD) of 66 Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) derived using only data from their X - ray afterglow lightcurve. To this end, we use the recently updated LX - Ta correlation between the break time Ta and the X - ray luminosity LX measured at Ta calibrated from a sample of Swift GRBs with lightcurves well fitted by the Willingale et al. (2007) model. We then investigate the use of this HD to constrain cosmological parameters when used alone or in combination with other data showing that the use of GRBs leads to constraints in agreement with previous results in literature. We finally argue that a larger sample of high luminosity GRBs can provide a valuable information in the search for the correct cosmological model.