Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-03-03
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Accepted for publication, MNRAS, 10 pages, 5 figures
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14713.x
We study the dynamics of the FLRW flat cosmological models in which the vacuum energy varies with time, $\Lambda(t)$. In this model we find that the main cosmological functions such as the scale factor of the universe and the Hubble flow are defined in terms of exponential functions. Applying a joint likelihood analysis of the recent supernovae type Ia data, the Cosmic Microwave Background shift parameter and the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations traced by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) galaxies, we place tight constraints on the main cosmological parameters of the $\Lambda(t)$ scenario. Also, we compare the $\Lambda(t)$ model with the traditional $\Lambda$ cosmology and we find that the former model provides a Hubble expansion which compares well with that of the $\Lambda$ cosmology. However, the $\Lambda(t)$ scenario predicts stronger small scale dynamics, which implies a faster growth rate of perturbations with respect to the usual $\Lambda$-cosmology, despite the fact that they share the same equation of state parameter. In this framework, we find that galaxy clusters in the $\Lambda(t)$ model appear to form earlier than in the $\Lambda$ model.
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