Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-09-30
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Dedicated to the people's republic of China on her 60th anniversary 1949-2009. 12 pages, 6 figures
Scientific paper
The class of Chaplygin gas models regarded as a candidate of dark energy can be realized by a scalar field, which could drive the variation of the fine structure constant $\alpha$ during the cosmic time. This phenomenon has been observed for almost ten years ago from the quasar absorption spectra and attracted many attentions. In this paper, we reconstruct the class of Chaplygin gas models to a kind of scalar fields and confront the resulting $\Delta\alpha/\alpha$ with the observational constraints. We found that if the present observational value of the equation of state of the dark energy was not exactly equal to -1, various parameters of the class of Chaplygin gas models are allowed to satisfy the observational constraints, as well as the equivalence principle is also respected.
Feng Chao-Jun
Li Xin-zhou
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