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Title

  • Main Title A Kinematical Approach to Dark Energy Studies

Creator

  • Author: Rapetti, David
    Creator Type: Personal
  • Author: Allen, Steven W.
    Creator Type: Personal
  • Author: Amin, Mustafa A.
    Creator Type: Personal
  • Author: Blandford, Roger D.
    Creator Type: Personal
  • Author: /KIPAC, Menlo Park
    Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

  • Sponsor: United States. Department of Energy.
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

  • Name: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
    Place of Publication: [Menlo Park, California]
    Additional Info: SLAC

Date

  • Creation: 2006-06-06

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: We present and employ a new kinematical approach to cosmological ''dark energy'' studies. We construct models in terms of the dimensionless second and third derivatives of the scale factor a(t) with respect to cosmic time t, namely the present-day value of the deceleration parameter q{sub 0} and the cosmic jerk parameter, j(t). An elegant feature of this parameterization is that all {Lambda}CDM models have j(t) = 1 (constant), which facilitates simple tests for departures from the {Lambda}CDM paradigm. Applying our model to the three best available sets of redshift-independent distance measurements, from type Ia supernovae and X-ray cluster gas mass fraction measurements, we obtain clear statistical evidence for a late time transition from a decelerating to an accelerating phase. For a flat model with constant jerk, j(t) = j, we measure q{sub 0} = -0.81 {+-} 0.14 and j = 2.16{sub -0.75}{sup +0.81}, results that are consistent with {Lambda}CDM at about the 1{sigma} confidence level. A standard ''dynamical'' analysis of the same data, employing the Friedmann equations and modeling the dark energy as a fluid with an equation of state parameter, w (constant), gives {Omega}{sub m} = 0.306{sub -0.040}{sup +0.042} and w = -1.15{sub -0.18}{sup +0.14}, also consistent with {Lambda}CDM at about the 1{sigma} level. In comparison to dynamical analyses, the kinematical approach uses a different model set and employs a minimum of prior information, being independent of any particular gravity theory. The results obtained with this new approach therefore provide important additional information and we argue that both kinematical and dynamical techniques should be employed in future dark energy studies, where possible. Our results provide further interesting support for the concordance {Lambda}CDM paradigm.
  • Physical Description: 12 pages

Subject

  • Keyword: Acceleration
  • Keyword: Supernovae Astrophysics,Astro, Grqc
  • Keyword: Astrophysics,Astro, Grqc
  • Keyword: Simulation
  • STI Subject Categories: 71 Classical And Quantum Mechanics, General Physics

Collection

  • Name: Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical Reports
    Code: OSTI

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

  • Report

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Report No.: SLAC-PUB-11882
  • Grant Number: AC02-76SF00515
  • DOI: 10.2172/883269
  • Office of Scientific & Technical Information Report Number: 883269
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc891841

Note

  • Display Note: http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/pubpage?slac-pub-11882.html
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