Old Dark Energy

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2009-09-13

arxiv.org/abs/0909.2251v2

Phys.Rev.D81:063004,2010

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

12 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in Phys Rev D.

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.81.063004

Dark energy dynamics in the recent universe is influenced by its evolution through the long, matter dominated expansion history. A particular dynamical property, the flow variable, remains constant in several classes of scalar field models as long as matter dominates; the dark energy is only free to diverge in behavior at recent times. This gives natural initial conditions for Monte Carlo studies of dark energy dynamics. We propose a parametrization for the later evolution that covers a wide range of possible behaviors, is tractable in making predictions, and can be constrained by observations. We compare the approach to directly parametrizing the potential, which does not take into account the maturity of the dark energy dynamics.

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