Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-01-19
Phys.Rev.D72:063502,2005
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
6 pages, 2 figures, quantification of reionization constraints and enhanced discussion of unified dark matter context added
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.72.063502
Given that the dark matter and dark energy in the universe affect cosmological observables only gravitationally, their phenomenology may be described by a single stress energy tensor. True unification however requires a theory that reproduces the successful phenomenology of LCDM and that requirement places specific constraints on the stress structure of the matter. We show that a recently proposed unification through an offset quadratic kinetic term for a scalar field is exactly equivalent to a fluid with a closed-form barotropic equation of state plus cosmological constant. The finite pressure at high densities introduces a cutoff in the linear power spectrum, which may alleviate the dark matter substructure problem; we provide a convenient fitting function for such studies. Given that sufficient power must remain to reionize the universe, the equation of state today is nonrelativistic with p proportional to rho^2 and a Jeans scale in the parsec regime for all relevant densities. Structure may then be evolved into the nonlinear regime with standard hydrodynamic techniques. In fact, the model is equivalent to the well-studied collisional dark matter with negligible mean free path. If recent observations of the triaxiality of dark matter halos and ram pressure stripping in galaxy clusters are confirmed, this model will be ruled out.
Giannakis Dimitrios
Hu Wayne
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