Resolving the Cosmological Missing Energy Problem

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1998-04-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9804285v2

Phys.Rev.D59:063005,1999

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, Latex, 4 postscript figures; revised analysis to include gravitational lensing

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.59.063005

Some form of missing energy may account for the difference between the observed cosmic matter density and the critical density. Two leading candidates are a cosmological constant and quintessence (a time-varying, inhomogenous component with negative pressure). We show that an ideal, full-sky cosmic background anisotropy experiment may not be able to distinguish the two, even when non-linear effects due to gravitational lensing are included. Due to this ambiguity, microwave background experiments alone may not determine the matter density or Hubble constant very precisely. We further show that degeneracy may remain even after considering classical cosmological tests and measurements of large scale structure.

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