Constraining Dark Energy Anisotropic Stress

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2007-08-06

arxiv.org/abs/0708.0830v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.382:793-800,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, 12 figures. Accepted for publication at Mon. Not. Roy. Astro. Soc

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12413.x

We investigate the possibility of using cosmological observations to probe and constrain an imperfect dark energy fluid. We consider a general parameterization of the dark energy component accounting for an equation of state, speed of sound and viscosity. We use present and future data from the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB), large scale structures and supernovae type Ia. We find that both the speed of sound and viscosity parameters are difficult to nail down with the present cosmological data. Also, we argue that it will be hard to improve the constraints significantly with future CMB data sets. The implication is that a perfect fluid description might ultimately turn out to be a phenomenologically sufficient description of all the observational consequences of dark energy. The fundamental lesson is however that even then one cannot exclude, by appealing to observational evidence alone, the possibility of imperfectness in dark energy.

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