Cosmological consequences of a Chaplygin gas dark energy

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2002-09-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0209379v2

Phys.Rev. D67 (2003) 023515

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.67.023515

A combination of recent observational results has given rise to what is currently known as the dark energy problem. Although several possible candidates have been extensively discussed in the literature to date the nature of this dark energy component is not well understood at present. In this paper we investigate some cosmological implications of another dark energy candidate: an exotic fluid known as the Chaplygin gas, which is characterized by an equation of state $p = -A/\rho$, where $A$ is a positive constant. By assuming a flat scenario driven by non-relativistic matter plus a Chaplygin gas dark energy we study the influence of such a component on the statistical properties of gravitational lenses. A comparison between the predicted age of the universe and the latest age estimates of globular clusters is also included and the results briefly discussed. In general, we find that the behavior of this class of models may be interpreted as an intermediary case between the standard and $\Lambda$CDM scenarios.

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