Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-07-18
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
28 pages, 6 figures; references added, minor corrections
Scientific paper
It is generally assumed that the two dark components of the energy density of the universe, a smooth component called dark energy and a fluid of nonrelativistic weakly interacting particles called dark matter, are independent of each other and interact only through gravity. In this paper, we consider a class of models in which the dark matter and dark energy interact directly. The dark matter particle mass is proportional to the value of a scalar field, and the energy density of this scalar field comprises the dark energy. We study the phenomenology of these models and calculate the luminosity distance as a function of redshift and the CMB anisotropy spectrum for several cases. We find that the phenomenology of these models can differ significantly from the standard case, and current observations can already rule out the simplest models.
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