Current Observational Constraints on Cosmic Doomsday

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2004-09-11

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0409264v2

JCAP 0412:006,2004

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

19 pages, 6 figures, comments added; the version to appear in JCAP

Scientific paper

10.1088/1475-7516/2004/12/006

In a broad class of dark energy models, the universe may collapse within a finite time t_c. Here we study a representative model of dark energy with a linear potential, V(\phi)=V_0(1+\alpha\phi). This model is the simplest doomsday model, in which the universe collapses rather quickly after it stops expanding. Observational data from type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), cosmic microwave background anisotropy (CMB), and large scale structure (LSS) are complementary in constraining dark energy models. Using the new SN Ia data (Riess sample), the CMB data from WMAP, and the LSS data from 2dF, we find that the collapse time of the universe is t_c > 42 (24) gigayears from today at 68% (95%) confidence.

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