WMAP Constraints on Quintessence

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2003-03-13

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0303298v1

Phys.Rev. D68 (2003) 043515

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, 3 figures, RevTeX4

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.68.043515

We use recent results from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) for the locations of peaks and troughs of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) power spectrum, together with constraints from large-scale structure, to study a quintessence model in which the pure exponential potential is modified by a polynomial factor. We find that the model is compatible with all the recent data for a wide range of cosmological and potential parameters. Moreover, quintessence is favoured compared to $\Lambda$CDM for $n_s\approx 1$ and relatively high values of the average fraction of dark energy before last scattering (``early quintessence''); for $n_s<1$, quintessence and $\Lambda$CDM give similar results, except for high values of early quintessence, in which case $\Lambda$CDM is favoured.

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