Hubble diagram of gamma-ray bursts: Robust evidence for a Chaplygin gas   expansion-driven universe with phase transition at $z \simeq 3$
  The Hubble diagram (HD) of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) having properly estimated redshifts is compared with the predicted one for the Chaplygin gas (CG), a dark energy candidate. The CG cosmology and that of Friedmann and $\Lambda$-CDM models are studied and confronted to the GRBs observations. The model-to-sample $\chi^2$ statistical analysis indicates the CG model as the best fit. The present GRBs HD plot exhibits a marked trend: as one goes back in time, it gets much closer to the predict HD for a Friedmann universe. This clear trend conclusively demonstrates that a transition from decelerate to accelerate expansion did take place. However, contrarily to claims based on supernovae type Ia, the transition redshift lies somewhere between $\sim 2.5 < z \simeq 3.5$ rather than at $z \sim 0.5-1$. All of these striking features of the GRBs HD constitute the most robust demonstration that the Chaplygin gas can in fact be the universe's driving dark energy field. 
Herman J. Mosquera Cuesta, Habib Dumet M., Rodrigo Turcati, Carlos A.   Bonilla Quintero, Cristina Furlanetto, and Jefferson...