Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-07-16
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.341:1299,2003
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
12 pages. This improved version has been accepted for publication in M.N.R.A.S
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06508.x
The possibility to unambiguously determine the equation-of-state of the cosmic dark energy with existing and future supernovae data is investigated. We consider four evolution laws for this equation-of-state corresponding to four quintessential models, i.e. i) a cosmological constant, ii) a general barotropic fluid, iii) a perfect fluid with a linear equation-of-state and iv) a more physical model based on a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson field. We explicitly show the degeneracies present not only within each model but also between the different models : they are caused by the multi-integral relation between the equation-of-state of dark energy and the luminosity distance. Present supernova observations are analysed using a standard $\chi^2$ method and the minimal $\chi^2$ values obtained for each model are compared. We confirm the difficulty to discriminate between these models using present SNeIa data only. By means of simulations, we then show that future SNAP observations will not remove all the degeneracies. For example, wrong estimations of $\Omega_m$ with a good value of $\chi^2_{min}$ could be found if the right cosmological model is not used to fit the data. We finally give some probabilities to obtain unambiguous results, free from degeneracies. In particular, the probability to confuse a cosmological constant with a true barotropic fluid with an equation-of-state different from -1 is shown to be 95% at a $2 \sigma$ level.
Claeskens Jean-Francois
Pietro Elisa Di
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