Consequences on some dark energy-candidates from the type Ia supernova SN 1997ff

Details Consequences on some dark energy-candidates from the type Ia supernova SN 1997ff Consequences on some dark energy-candidates from the type Ia supernova SN 1997ff

2001-08-07

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0108118v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 331 (2002) 776-784

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

26 pages including 6 figures; Revised version with analysis of more accurate data; General results unchanged. Accepted in MNRA

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05253.x

We examine the status of various dark energy-models in light of the recently observed SN 1997ff at z \approx 1.7. The modified data still fit a pure cosmological constant \Lambda or a quintessence with an equation of state similar to that of \Lambda. The kinematical \Lambda-models, \Lambda\sim S^{-2} and \Lambda\sim H^2, also fit the data reasonably well and require less dark energy density than is required by the constant \Lambda-model. However, the model \Lambda\sim S^{-2} with low energy density becomes unphysical as it cannot accommodate higher redshift objects. We also examine an alternative explanation of the data, viz., the absorption by the intervening whisker-like dust and find that the quasi-steady state model and the FRW model \Omega_{\rm m0}=0.33, {\it without any dark energy} also fit the data reasonably well. We notice that the addition of SN 1997ff to the old data has worsened the fit to most of the models, except a closed FRW model with a constant \Lambda and a closed quintessence-model with \omega_\phi=-0.82, and the models have started departing from each other as we go above z=1. However, to make a clear discrimination possible, a few more supernovae with z>1 are required. We have also calculated the age of the universe in these models and find that, in the models with a constant \Lambda, the expansion age is uncomfortably close to the age of the globular clusters. Quintessence-models show even lower age. The kinematical \Lambda-models are, however, interesting in this connection (especially the model \Lambda\sim H^2), which give remarkably large age of the universe.

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