Anisotropic Dark Energy: Dynamics of Background and Perturbations

Details Anisotropic Dark Energy: Dynamics of Background and Perturbations Anisotropic Dark Energy: Dynamics of Background and Perturbations

2008-01-23

arxiv.org/abs/0801.3676v2

JCAP 0806:018,2008

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

43 pages, 6 figures. V2: Reflects the version to appear in JCAP, title changed, more unified analysis using the 3+1 formalism,

Scientific paper

10.1088/1475-7516/2008/06/018

We investigate cosmologies where the accelerated expansion of the Universe is driven by a field with an anisotropic equation of state. We model such scenarios within the Bianchi I framework, introducing two skewness parameters to quantify the deviation of pressure from isotropy. We study the dynamics of the background expansion in these models. A special case of anisotropic cosmological constant is analyzed in detail. The anisotropic expansion is then confronted with the redshift and angular distribution of the supernovae type Ia. In addition, we investigate the effects on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies for which the main signature appears to be a quadrupole contribution. We find that the two skewness parameters can be very well constrained. Tightest bounds are imposed by the CMB quadrupole, but there are anisotropic models which avoid this bound completely. Within these bounds, the anisotropy can be beneficial as a potential explanation of various anomalous cosmological observations, especially in the CMB at the largest angles. We also consider the dynamics of linear perturbations in these models. The covariant approach is used to derive the general evolution equations for cosmological perturbations taking into account imperfect sources in an anisotropic background. The implications for the galaxy formation are then studied. These results might help to make contact between the observed anomalies in CMB and large scale structure and fundamental theories exhibiting Lorentz violation.

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