A model independent approach to the dark energy equation of state

Details A model independent approach to the dark energy equation of state A model independent approach to the dark energy equation of state

2002-05-31

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0205544v3

Phys.Rev.D67:063521,2003

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, 5 figures. Final version to appear in PRD

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.67.063521

The consensus of opinion in cosmology is that the Universe is currently undergoing a period of accelerated expansion. With current and proposed high precision experiments it offers the hope of being able to discriminate between the two competing models that are being suggested to explain the observations, namely a cosmological constant or a time dependent `Quintessence' model. The latter suffers from a plethora of scalar field potentials all leading to similar late time behaviour of the universe, hence to a lack of predictability. In this paper, we develop a model independent approach which simply involves parameterizing the dark energy equation of state in terms of known observables. This allows to analyse the impact dark energy has had on cosmology without the need to refer to particular scalar field models and opens up the possibility that future experiments will be able to constrain the dark energy equation of state in a model independent manner.

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