Constraints on flat cosmologies with tracking Quintessence from Cosmic Microwave Background observations

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2001-09-06

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0109097v2

Phys.Rev. D65 (2002) 063520

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 6 figures, final version accepted for publication on Phys.Rev.D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.65.063520

We constrain cosmological parameters in flat cosmologies with tracking dark energy (or Quintessence) using the existing data on Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies. We perform a maximum likelihood analysis using combined data from COBE/DMR, BOOMERanG, DASI and MAXIMA, obtaining estimates for the dark energy density $\Omega_{Q}$ and equation of state $w_{Q}$, the physical baryon density $\Omega_{b}h^{2}$, the scalar perturbation spectral index $n_{S}$, the ratio $R$ between the tensor and scalar perturbation amplitude (or the tensor spectral index $n_{T}$). Dark energy is found to be the dominant cosmological component $\Omega_{Q}=0.71^{+0.05}_{-0.04}$, with equation of state $w_{Q}=-0.82^{+0.14}_{-0.11}$ (68% C.L.). Our best fit value of the physical baryon density is in good agreement with the primordial nucleosynthesis bound. We find no significant evidence for deviations from scale-invariance, although a scalar spectral index slightly smaller than unity is marginally preferred. Finally, we find that the contribution of cosmological gravitational waves is negligible. These results confirm that Quintessence is slightly preferred with respect to ordinary cosmological constant by the present CMB data.

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