The Equation of State of Tracker Fields

Details The Equation of State of Tracker Fields The Equation of State of Tracker Fields

2009-09-24

arxiv.org/abs/0909.4365v2

Phys.Rev.D81:023515,2010

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

5 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.81.023515

We derive the equation of state of tracker fields, which are typical examples of freezing quintessence (quintessence with the equation of state approaching toward -1), taking into account of the late-time departure from the tracker solution due to the nonzero density parameter of dark energy $\Omp$. We calculate the equation of state as a function of $\Omp$ for constant $\Gamma=VV"/(V')^2$ (during matter era) models. The derived equation of state contains a single parameter, $w_{(0)}$, which parametrizes the equation of state during the matter-dominated epoch. We derive observational constraints on $w_{(0)}$ and find that observational data are consistent with the cosmological constant: $-1.11< \wzero< -0.96 (1 \sigma)$.

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