Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2008-04-22
Phys.Rev.D78:024031,2008
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
38 pages, 4 figures; to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.78.024031
A model of dark matter and dark energy based on the concept of gravitational polarization is investigated. We propose an action in standard general relativity for describing, at some effective or phenomenological level, the dynamics of a dipolar medium, i.e. one endowed with a dipole moment vector, and polarizable in a gravitational field. Using first-order cosmological perturbations, we show that the dipolar fluid is undistinguishable from standard dark energy (a cosmological constant Lambda) plus standard dark matter (a pressureless perfect fluid), and therefore benefits from the successes of the Lambda-CDM (Lambda-cold dark matter) scenario at cosmological scales. Invoking an argument of "weak clusterisation" of the mass distribution of dipole moments, we find that the dipolar dark matter reproduces the phenomenology of the modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) at galactic scales. The dipolar medium action naturally contains a cosmological constant, and we show that if the model is to come from some fundamental underlying physics, the cosmological constant Lambda should be of the order of a0^2/c^4, where a0 denotes the MOND constant acceleration scale, in good agreement with observations.
Blanchet Luc
Le Tiec Alexandre
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