Tracking and coupled dark energy as seen by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe

• Verfasst von: Amendola, Luca [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Quercellini, Claudia [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Tracking and coupled dark energy as seen by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
• Verf.angabe: Luca Amendola, INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Via Frascati 33, 00040 Monte Porzio Catone, Italy ; Claudia Quercellini, INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Via Frascati 33, 00040 Monte Porzio Catone, Italy and Dip. di Fisica, Universita’ di Roma Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Roma, Italy
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 17.11.2017
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Physical review / D
• Jahr Quelle: 2003
• Band/Heft Quelle: 69(2003,2) Artikel-Nummer 023514, 7 Seiten
• ISSN Quelle: 1550-2368
• ISSN Quelle: 1089-4918
• DOI: doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.68.023514
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 1565448758

Abstract

The satellite experiment, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), has produced for the first time a high-coverage, high-resolution survey of the microwave sky, releasing publicly available data that are likely to remain unrivaled for years to come. Here we compare the WMAP temperature power spectrum, along with an exhaustive compilation of previous experiments, to models of dark energy that allow for a tracking epoch at the present, deriving updated bounds on the dark energy equation of state and the other cosmological parameters. Moreover, we complement the analysis by including a coupling of the dark energy to dark matter. The main results are (a) the WMAP data alone constrain the equation of state of tracking dark energy to be wφ<−0.67(−0.49) to 68%(95%) (confining the analysis to wφ>−1), which implies for an inverse power-law potential an exponent α<0.99(2.08), and (b) the dimensionless coupling to dark matter is |β|<0.07(0.13). Including the results from supernovae type Ia further constrains the dark energy equation of state.