Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-01-23
Phys.Rev.D76:027301,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
5 pages, 3 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.027301
We study the possibility that dark energy decays in the future and the universe stops accelerating. The fact thatthe cosmological observations prefer an equation of state of dark energy smaller than -1 can be a signal that dark energy will decay in the future. This conclusion is based in interpreting a w<-1 as a signal of dark energy interaction with another fluid. We determine the interaction through the cosmological data and extrapolate it into the future. The resulting energy density for dark energy becomes rho=a^{-3(1+w)}e^{-\beta(a-1)}, i.e. it has an exponential suppression for a >> a_o=1. In this scenario the universe ends up dominated by this other fluid, which could be matter, and the universe stops accelerating at some time in the near future.
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