Revisit of constraints on holographic dark energy: SNLS3 dataset with the effects of time-varying $β$ and different light-curve fitters

Shuang Wang, Jia-Jia Geng, Yi-Liang Hu, Xin Zhang

Published 2013-12-01, updated 2014-12-08Version 3

Previous studies have shown that for the Supernova Legacy Survey three-year (SNLS3) data there is strong evidence for the redshift-evolution of color-luminosity parameter $\beta$ of type Ia supernovae (SN Ia). In this paper, we explore the effects of varying $\beta$ on the cosmological constraints of holographic dark energy (HDE) model. In addition to the SNLS3 data, we also use Planck distance prior data of cosmic microwave background (CMB), as well as galaxy clustering (GC) data extracted from Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data release 7 and Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). We find that, for the both cases of using SN data alone and using SN+CMB+GC data, involving an additional parameter of $\beta$ can reduce $\chi^2$ by $\sim$ 36; this shows that $\beta$ deviates from a constant at 6$\sigma$ confidence levels. Adopting SN+CMB+GC data, we find that compared to the constant $\beta$ case, varying $\beta$ yields a larger fractional matter density $\Omega_{m0}$ and a smaller reduced Hubble constant $h$; moreover, varying $\beta$ significantly increases the value of HDE model parameter $c$, leading to $c\approx 0.8$, consistent with the constraint results obtained before Planck. These results indicate that the evolution of $\beta$ should be taken into account seriously in the cosmological fits. In addition, we find that relative to the differences between the constant $\beta$ and varying $\beta(z)$ cases, the effects of different light-curve fitters on parameter estimation are very small.