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Observational Constraints on Variable Chaplygin Gas

Zong-Kuan Guo, Yuan-Zhong Zhang

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0509790

Abstract

We investigate observational constraints on the variable Chaplygin gas model from the gold sample of type Ia supernova data and the recent measurements of the X-ray gas mass fractions in galaxy clusters. Combining these databases, we obtain a tight constraint on the two model parameters. Our results indicate that the original Chaplygin gas model is ruled out by the data at 99.7% confidence level.

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