Deflationary cosmology: constraints from angular size and ages of globular clusters

Details Deflationary cosmology: constraints from angular size and ages of globular clusters Deflationary cosmology: constraints from angular size and ages of globular clusters

2002-02-13

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0202260v2

Phys.Rev. D66 (2002) 023520

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, 3 figures, revised version to appear in Phys. Rev. D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.66.023520

Observational constraints to a large class of decaying vacuum cosmologies are derived using the angular size data of compact radio sources and the latest age estimates of globular clusters. For this class of deflationary $\Lambda(t)$ models, the present value of the vacuum energy density is quantified by a positive $\beta$ parameter smaller than unity. In the case of milliarcsecond compact radio-sources, we find that the allowed intervals for $\beta$ and the matter density parameter $\Omega_m$ are heavily dependent on the value of the mean projected linear size $l$. For $l \simeq 20h^{-1} - 30h^{-1}$ pc, the best fit occurs for $\beta \sim 0.58$, $\Omega_{\rm{m}} \sim 0.58$, and $\beta \sim 0.76$, $\Omega_{\rm{m}} \sim 0.28$, respectively. This analysis shows that if one minimizes $\chi^{2}$ for the free parameters $l$, $\Omega_{\rm{m}}$ and $\beta$, the best fit for these angular size data corresponds to a decaying $\Lambda(t)$ with $\Omega_{\rm{m}} = 0.54$ $\beta=0.6$ and $l = 22.64h^{-1}$ pc. Constraints from age estimates of globular clusters and old high redshift galaxies are not so restrictive, thereby suggesting that there is no age crisis for this kind of $\Lambda(t)$ cosmologies.

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