Quintessence reconstructed: new constraints and tracker viability

Details Quintessence reconstructed: new constraints and tracker viability Quintessence reconstructed: new constraints and tracker viability

2006-10-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0610812v3

Phys.Rev.D75:023502,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages RevTeX4, 12 figures included. Minor updates to match version accepted by Phys Rev D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.75.023502

We update and extend our previous work reconstructing the potential of a quintessence field from current observational data. We extend the cosmological dataset to include new supernova data, plus information from the cosmic microwave background and from baryon acoustic oscillations. We extend the modelling by considering Pad\'e approximant expansions as well as Taylor series, and by using observations to assess the viability of the tracker hypothesis. We find that parameter constraints have improved by a factor of two, with a strengthening of the preference of the cosmological constant over evolving quintessence models. Present data show some signs, though inconclusive, of favouring tracker models over non-tracker models under our assumptions.

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