Constraining Thawing Quintessence

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2011-09-19

arxiv.org/abs/1109.4112v2

MNRAS, 420, 1309 (2012)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

8 pages, Latex style, 11 eps figures, revised with included remark about future extension. Appeared in MNRAS

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We look at observational constraints on the thawing class of scalar field models proposed to explain the late time acceleration of the universe. Using the recently introduced `Statefinder Hierarchy', we compare these thawing class of models with other widely studied dark energy (and modified gravity) models to check the underlying parameter degeneracies. We put constraints on the deviations of these thawing models from the canonical \Lambda CDM model using a large class of observational data, e.g, the Supernova Type Ia data, the BAO data, the CMB data and data from the measurements of the Hubble parameter using red-envelope galaxies. We also forecast constraints using a simulated dataset for the future JDEM SNe survey. Our study shows that, although with current data it is difficult to distinguish different thawing models from \Lambda CDM, a future JDEM like mission would be able tell apart thawing models from \Lambda CDM for currently acceptable values of \Omega_{m0}

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