Dark energy and the Boomerang data
The recent high-quality Boomerang data allow to test many competing cosmological models. Here I present a seven-parameter likelihood analysis of dark energy models with exponential potential and explicit coupling to dark matter. Such a model is conformally equivalent to a scalar field with non-minim...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) Chapter/Article |
| Language: | English |
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2000
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Arxiv
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| Online Access: | Verlag, Volltext: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0006300
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| Author Notes: | Luca Amendola, Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Viale del Parco Mellini 84, 00136 Roma, Italy |
| Summary: | The recent high-quality Boomerang data allow to test many competing cosmological models. Here I present a seven-parameter likelihood analysis of dark energy models with exponential potential and explicit coupling to dark matter. Such a model is conformally equivalent to a scalar field with non-minimal coupling to gravity. So far, the constraints on a dark energy - dark matter coupling were extremely weak. The Boomerang data constrain the dimensionless coupling $\beta $ to be smaller than 0.1, an order of magnitude better than previous limits. In terms of the constant $\xi $ of non-minimally coupled theories, this amounts to $\xi <0.01.$ On the other hand, Boomerang has not enough sensitivity to put constraints on the potential slope. |
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| Physical Description: | Online Resource |