Tracking Dark Energy with the ISW effect: short and long-term predictions

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2005-06-16

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0506396v2

Phys.Rev. D72 (2005) 103519

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

15 pages, 17 figures. Added discussion, references, 2 new figures. Minor errors fixed in the calculation. The predicted ISW co

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.72.103519

We present an analysis of the constraining power of future measurements of the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect on models of the equation of state of dark energy as a function of redshift, w(z). To achieve this, we employ a new parameterization of w, which utilizes the mean value of w(z) () as an explicit parameter. This helps to separate the information contained in the estimation of the distance to the last scattering surface (from the CMB) from the information contained in the ISW effect. We then use Fisher analysis to forecast the expected uncertainties in the measured parameters from future ISW observations for two models of dark energy with very different time evolution properties. For example, we demonstrate that the cross-correlation of Planck CMB data and LSST galaxy catalogs will provide competitive constraints on w(z), compared to a SNAP-like SNe project, for models of dark energy with a rapidly changing equation of state (e.g. 'Kink' models). Our work confirms that, while SNe measurements are more suitable for constraining variations in w(z) at low redshift, the ISW effect can provide important independent constraints on w(z) at high z.

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