Matter density perturbations in interacting quintessence models

Details Matter density perturbations in interacting quintessence models Matter density perturbations in interacting quintessence models

2006-07-26

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0607604v1

Phys.Rev.D74:043521,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

11 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.74.043521

Models with dark energy decaying into dark matter have been proposed to solve the coincidence problem in cosmology. We study the effect of such coupling in the matter power spectrum. Due to the interaction, the growth of matter density perturbations during the radiation dominated regime is slower compared to non-interacting models with the same ratio of dark matter to dark energy today. This effect introduces a damping on the power spectrum at small scales proportional to the strength of the interaction and similar to the effect generated by ultrarelativistic neutrinos. The interaction also shifts matter--radiation equality to larger scales. We compare the matter power spectrum of interacting quintessence models with the measurments of 2dFGRS. We particularize our study to models that during radiation domination have a constant dark matter to dark energy ratio.

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