Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-12-09
Phys.Rev.D66:043523,2002
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
18 pages, 12 figures, submitted to PRD
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.66.043523
In a recent paper we considered the possibility of a scalar field providing an explanation for the cosmic acceleration. Our model had the interesting properties of attractor-like behavior and having its parameters of O(1) in Planck units. Here we discuss the effect of the field on large scale structure and CMB anisotropies. We show how some versions of our model inspired by "brane" physics have novel features due to the fact that the scalar field has a significant role over a wider range of redshifts than for typical "dark energy" models. One of these features is the additional suppression of the formation of large scale structure, as compared with cosmological constant models. In light of the new pressures being placed on cosmological parameters (in particular H_0) by CMB data, this added suppression allows our "brane" models to give excellent fits to both CMB and large scale structure data.
Albrecht Andreas
Skordis Constantinos
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