Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-01-27
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 343 (2003) 533
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
6 pages, 5 figures, minor changes, accepted to MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06685.x
We show that the distance measures (such as the luminosity and angular diameter distances) are linear functionals of the equation-of-state function w(z) of the dark energy to a fair degree of accuracy in the regimes of interest. That is, the distance measures can be expressed as a sum of (i) a constant and (ii) an integral of a weighting function multiplied by the equation of state parameter w(z). The existence of such an accurate linear response approximation has several important implications: (a) Fitting a constant w model to the data drawn from an evolving model has a simple interpretation as a weighted average of w(z). (b) Any polynomial (or other expansion coefficients can also be expressed as weighted sums of the true w(z). (c) A replacement for the commonly used heuristic equation for the effective w(z), as determined by the CMB, can be derived and the result is found to be quite close to the heuristic expression commonly used. (d) The reconstruction of w(z) by Huterer et al. (2002) can be expressed as a matrix inversion. In each case the limitations of the linear response approximation are explored and found to be surprisingly small.
Bridle Sarah
Padmanabhan Thanu
Saini Tarun Deep
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