scholarly journals CONSTRAINTS ON DARK ENERGY FROM THE OBSERVED EXPANSION OF OUR COSMIC HORIZON

2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (07) ◽  
pp. 1113-1127 ◽  
Author(s):  
FULVIO MELIA
Keyword(s):  
Dark Energy ◽  
Cosmological Constant ◽  
Cosmic Time ◽  
Accelerating Universe ◽  
De Sitter ◽  
Dark Energy Component ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Type Ia ◽  
Age Of The Universe ◽  
The Universe

Within the context of standard cosmology, an accelerating universe requires the presence of a third "dark" component of energy, beyond matter and radiation. The available data, however, are still deemed insufficient to distinguish between an evolving dark energy component and the simplest model of a time-independent cosmological constant. In this paper, we examine the cosmological expansion in terms of observer-dependent coordinates, in addition to the more conventional comoving coordinates. This procedure explicitly reveals the role played by the radius Rh of our cosmic horizon in the interrogation of the data. (In Rindler's notation, Rh coincides with the "event horizon" in the case of de Sitter, but changes in time for other cosmologies that also contain matter and/or radiation.) With this approach, we show that the interpretation of dark energy as a cosmological constant is clearly disfavored by the observations. Within the framework of standard Friedmann–Robertson–Walker cosmology, we derive an equation describing the evolution of Rh, and solve it using the WMAP and Type Ia supernova data. In particular, we consider the meaning of the observed equality (or near-equality) Rh(t0) ≅ ct0, where t0 is the age of the universe. This empirical result is far from trivial, for a cosmological constant would drive Rh(t) toward ct (t is the cosmic time) only once — and that would have to occur right now. Though we are not here espousing any particular alternative model of dark energy, for comparison we also consider scenarios in which dark energy is given by scaling solutions, which simultaneously eliminate several conundrums in the standard model, including the "coincidence" and "flatness" problems, and account very well for the fact that Rh(t0) ≈ ct0.

scholarly journals ACCELERATING UNIVERSE IN A BIG BOUNCE MODEL

2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (06) ◽  
pp. 449-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
BEILI WANG ◽  
HONGYA LIU ◽  
LIXIN XU
Keyword(s):  
Dark Energy ◽  
Cosmological Constant ◽  
Early Time ◽  
Accelerating Universe ◽  
Late Time ◽  
Total Energy Density ◽  
Variable Cosmological Constant ◽  
Type Ia ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Big Bounce

Recent observations of Type Ia supernovae provide evidence for the acceleration of our universe, which leads to the possibility that the universe is entering an inflationary epoch. We simulate it under a "big bounce" model, which contains a time variable cosmological "constant" that is derived from a higher dimension and manifests itself in 4D spacetime as dark energy. By properly choosing the two arbitrary functions contained in the model, we obtain a simple exact solution in which the evolution of the universe is divided into several stages. Before the big bounce, the universe contracts from a Λ-dominated vacuum, and after the bounce, the universe expands. In the early time after the bounce, the expansion of the universe is decelerating. In the late time after the bounce, dark energy (i.e. the variable cosmological "constant") overtakes dark matter and baryons, and the expansion enters an accelerating stage. When time tends to infinity, the contribution of dark energy tends to two thirds of the total energy density of the universe, qualitatively in agreement with observations.

scholarly journals CONSTRAINTS ON HOLOGRAPHIC DARK ENERGY MODELS USING THE DIFFERENTIAL AGES OF PASSIVELY EVOLVING GALAXIES

2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (01) ◽  
pp. 41-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZE-LONG YI ◽  
TONG-JIE ZHANG
Keyword(s):  
Dark Energy ◽  
Hubble Parameter ◽  
Holographic Dark Energy ◽  
Cosmological Parameters ◽  
Cosmic Time ◽  
Energy Models ◽  
Dark Energy Component ◽  
Best Fitting ◽  
Age Of The Universe ◽  
The Universe

Using the absolute ages of passively evolving galaxies observed at different redshifts, one can obtain the differential ages, the derivative of redshift z with respect to the cosmic time t (i.e. dz/dt). Thus, the Hubble parameter H(z) can be measured through the relation H(z) = -(dz/dt)/(1+z). By comparing the measured Hubble parameter at different redshifts with the theoretical one containing free cosmological parameters, one can constrain current cosmological models. In this paper, we use this method to present the constraint on a spatially flat Friedman–Robert–Walker universe with a matter component and a holographic dark energy component, in which the parameter c plays a significant role in this dark energy model. Firstly we consider three fixed values of c = 0.6, 1.0 and 1.4 in the fitting of data. If we set c free, the best fitting values are c = 0.26, Ωm0 = 0.16, h = 0.9998. It is shown that the holographic dark energy behaves like a quintom-type at the 1σ level. This result is consistent with some other independent cosmological constrains, which imply that c < 1.0 is favored. We also test the results derived from the differential ages using another independent method based on the lookback time to galaxy clusters and the age of the universe. It shows that our results are reliable.

scholarly journals QUANTUM EFFECTS AND SUPERQUINTESSENCE IN THE NEW AGE OF PRECISION COSMOLOGY

2004 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 2255-2259 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. GUNZIG ◽  
ALBERTO SAA
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Dark Energy ◽  
Energy Density ◽  
Cosmological Constant ◽  
Classical Approach ◽  
Constant Ratio ◽  
Energy Component ◽  
Dark Energy Component ◽  
Type Ia ◽  
The Universe

Recent observations of Type Ia supernova at high redshifts establish that the dark energy component of the universe has (a probably constant) ratio between pressure and energy density [Formula: see text]. The conventional quintessence models for dark energy are restricted to the range -1≤w<0, with the cosmological constant corresponding to w=-1. Conformally coupled quintessence models are the simplest ones compatible with the marginally allowed superaccelerated regime (w<-1). However, they are known to be plagued with anisotropic singularities. We argue here that the extension of the classical approach to the semiclassical one, with the inclusion of quantum counterterms necessary to ensure the renormalization, can eliminate the anisotropic singularities preserving the isotropic behavior of conformally coupled superquintessence models. Hence, besides of having other interesting properties, they are consistent candidates to describe the superaccelerated phases of the universe compatible with the present experimental data.

scholarly journals Supernovae, the Accelerating Cosmos, and Dark Energy

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (H16) ◽  
pp. 17-17
Author(s):  
Brian Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Dark Energy ◽  
Accelerating Universe ◽  
Type Ia Supernovae ◽  
Current State ◽  
Cosmological Application ◽  
Type Ia ◽  
Ia Supernovae ◽  
The Universe

AbstractType Ia supernovae remain one of Astronomy's most precise tools for measuring distances in the Universe. I describe the cosmological application of these stellar explosions, and chronicle how they were used to discover an accelerating Universe in 1998 - an observation which is most simply explained if more than 70% of the Universe is made up of some previously undetected form of ‘Dark Energy’. Over the intervening 13 years, a variety of experiments have been completed, and even more proposed to better constrain the source of the acceleration. I review the range of experiments, describing the current state of our understanding of the observed acceleration, and speculate about future progress in understanding Dark Energy.

scholarly journals Cold dark matter: Bose-Einstein condensation of gluons in Anti-de Sitter space time

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilles Cohen-Tannoudji ◽  
Jean-Pierre Gazeau
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Dark Energy ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Cosmological Constant ◽  
Cold Dark Matter ◽  
Hidden Variables ◽  
Einstein Condensation ◽  
De Sitter ◽  
Bose Einstein ◽  
The Universe

In the same way as the realization of some of the famous gedanken experiments imagined by the founding fathers of quantum mechanics has recently led to the current renewal of the interpretation of quantum physics, it seems that the most recent progresses of observational astrophysics can be interpreted as the realization of some cosmological gedanken experiments such as the removal from the universe of the whole visible matter or the cosmic time travel leading to a new cosmological standard model. This standard model involves two dark components of the universe, dark energy and dark matter. Whereas dark energy is usually associated with the positive cosmological constant, we propose to explain dark matter as a pure QCD effect. This effect is due to the trace anomaly viewed as a negative cosmological constant accompanying baryonic matter at the hadronization transition from the quark gluon plasma phase to the colorless hadronic phase. Our approach not only yields a ratio Dark/Visible equal to 11/2 but also provides gluons and (anti-)quarks with an extra mass of vibrational nature. Currently observed dark matter is thus interpreted as a gluon Bose Einstein condensate that is a relic of the quark period. Such an interpretation would comfort the idea that, apart from the violation of the matter/antimatter symmetry satisfying the Sakharov&rsquo;s conditions, the reconciliation of particle physics and cosmology needs not the recourse to any ad hoc fields, particles or hidden variables.

scholarly journals The Hubble Constant

2000 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Mould
Keyword(s):  
Globular Clusters ◽  
Hubble Space Telescope ◽  
Hubble Constant ◽  
Big Bang ◽  
Accelerating Universe ◽  
De Sitter ◽  
Age Of The Universe ◽  
Extragalactic Distance Scale ◽  
The Big Bang ◽  
The Universe

AbstractWith the completion of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale, it is interesting to form the dimensionless quantity H0t0 by multiplying the Hubble Constant by the age of the Universe. In a matter dominated decelerating Universe with a density exceeding 0·26 of the critical value, H0t0 < 1; in an accelerating Universe with the same Ωm = 0·26, but dominated by vacuum energy with ΩV ≥ 1 – Ωm, H0t0 ≥ 1. If the first globular clusters formed 109 years after the Big Bang, then with 95% confidence H0t0 =1·0 ± 0·3. The classical Einstein–de Sitter cosmological model has H0t0 = ⅔.

scholarly journals An interacting holographic dark energy model within an induced gravity brane

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (09) ◽  
pp. 2050066
Author(s):  
Moulay-Hicham Belkacemi ◽  
Zahra Bouabdallaoui ◽  
Mariam Bouhmadi-López ◽  
Ahmed Errahmani ◽  
Taoufik Ouali
Keyword(s):  
Dark Energy ◽  
Holographic Dark Energy ◽  
Late Time ◽  
De Sitter ◽  
Ricci Dark Energy ◽  
Induced Gravity ◽  
Big Rip ◽  
Dark Energy Component ◽  
Braneworld Model ◽  
The Universe

In this paper, we present a model for the late-time evolution of the universe where a dark energy-dark matter interaction is invoked. Dark energy is modeled through an holographic Ricci dark energy component. The model is embedded within an induced gravity braneworld model. For suitable choices of the interaction coupling, the big rip and little rip induced by the holographic Ricci dark energy, in a relativistic model and in an induced gravity braneworld model, are removed. In this scenario, the holographic dark energy will have a phantom like behavior even though the brane is asymptotically de Sitter.

THE CASE FOR A POSITIVE COSMOLOGICAL Λ-TERM

2000 ◽  
Vol 09 (04) ◽  
pp. 373-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
VARUN SAHNI ◽  
ALEXEI STAROBINSKY
Keyword(s):  
Cosmological Constant ◽  
Gravitational Lensing ◽  
High Redshift ◽  
Scalar Fields ◽  
Accelerating Universe ◽  
Microwave Background ◽  
Present Epoch ◽  
Polarization Effects ◽  
Age Of The Universe ◽  
The Universe

Recent observations of Type 1a supernovae indicating an accelerating universe have once more drawn attention to the possible existence, at the present epoch, of a small positive Λ-term (cosmological constant). In this paper we review both observational and theoretical aspects of a small cosmological Λ-term. We discuss the current observational situation focusing on cosmological tests of Λ including the age of the universe, high redshift supernovae, gravitational lensing, galaxy clustering and the cosmic microwave background. We also review the theoretical debate surrounding Λ: the generation of Λ in models with spontaneous symmetry breaking and through quantum vacuum polarization effects — mechanisms which are known to give rise to a large value of Λ hence leading to the "cosmological constant problem." More recent attempts to generate a small cosmological constant at the present epoch using either field theoretic techniques, or by modelling a dynamical Λ-term by scalar fields are also extensively discussed. Anthropic arguments favouring a small Λ-term are briefly reviewed. A comprehensive bibliography of recent work on Λ is provided.

scholarly journals Does holographic equipartition demand a pure cosmological constant?

2020 ◽  
pp. 2050334
Author(s):  
P. B. Krishna ◽  
Titus K. Mathew
Keyword(s):  
Dark Energy ◽  
Cosmological Constant ◽  
Dark Energy Model ◽  
State Parameter ◽  
De Sitter ◽  
Entropy Maximization ◽  
Expansion Of The Universe ◽  
The Law ◽  
De Sitter Universe ◽  
The Universe

The spacial expansion of the universe could be described as a tendency for satisfying holographic equipartition which inevitably demands the presence of dark energy. We explore whether this novel idea proposed by Padmanabhan gives any additional insights into the nature of dark energy. In particular, we obtain the constraints imposed by the law of emergence on the equation of state parameter, [Formula: see text]. We also present a thermodynamic motivation for the obtained constraints on [Formula: see text]. Further, we explicitly prove the feasibility of describing a dynamic dark energy model through the law of emergence. Interestingly, both holographic equipartition and the entropy maximization demand an asymptotically de Sitter universe with [Formula: see text], rather than a pure cosmological constant.

scholarly journals The Expanding and Accelerating Universe

2005 ◽  
Vol 192 ◽  
pp. 511-523
Author(s):  
Brian P. Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Equation Of State ◽  
Accelerating Universe ◽  
Look Back ◽  
Type Ia ◽  
Systematic Effects ◽  
Expansion Of The Universe ◽  
Age Of The Universe ◽  
The Look ◽  
Ia Supernovae ◽  
The Universe

SummaryMeasuring distances back to a significant portion of the look back time probes the make-up of the Universe, through the effects of different types of matter on the cosmological geometry and expansion. Over the past five years two teams have used type Ia supernovae to trace the expansion of the Universe to a look back time more than 70% of the age of the Universe. These observations show an accelerating Universe which is best explained by a cosmological constant, or other form of dark energy with an equation of state near w = p/ρ = −1. There are many possible lurking systematic effects. However, while difficult to completely eliminate, none of these appears large enough to challenge current results. However, as future experiments attempt to better characterize the equation of state of the matter leading to the observed acceleration, these systematic effects will ultimately limit progress.

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