A parametric reconstruction of the deceleration parameter

Abstract The present work is based on a parametric reconstruction of the deceleration parameter q(z) in a model for the spatially flat FRW universe filled with dark energy and non-relativistic matter. In cosmology, the parametric reconstruction technique deals with an attempt to build up a model by choosing some specific evolution scenario for a cosmological parameter and then estimate the values of the parameters with the help of different observational datasets. In this paper, we have proposed a logarithmic parametrization of q(z) to probe the evolution history of the universe. Using the type Ia supernova, baryon acoustic oscillation and the cosmic microwave background datasets, the constraints on the arbitrary model parameters $$q_{0}$$ q 0 and $$q_{1}$$ q 1 are obtained (within $$1\sigma $$ 1 σ and $$2\sigma $$ 2 σ confidence limits) by $$\chi ^{2}$$ χ 2 -minimization technique. We have then reconstructed the deceleration parameter, the total EoS parameter $$\omega _\mathrm{tot}$$ ω tot , the jerk parameter and have compared the reconstructed results of q(z) with other well-known parametrizations of q(z). We have also shown that two model selection criteria (namely, the Akaike information criterion and Bayesian information criterion) provide a clear indication that our reconstructed model is well consistent with other popular models