Monday, December 19, 2011

1112.3701 (Lixin Xu et al.)

A Unified Dark Fluid with Constant Adiabatic Sound Speed and Cosmic Constraints    [PDF]

Lixin Xu, Yuting Wang, Hyerim Noh
As known above 90% of the energy content in our universe is made of unknown dark component. Usually this dark fluid is separated into two energy components: dark matter and dark energy. However, maybe it is a mixture of dark matter and dark energy components, or just one exotic unknown fluid. This property is dubbed as dark degeneracy. With this motivation, in this paper, a unified dark fluid with constant adiabatic sound speed $c_s^2=\alpha$ in the range $[0,1]$ is studied. At first, via the energy conservation equation, its energy density, $\rho_d/\rho_{d0}=(1-B_s)+B_s a^{-3(1+\alpha)}$ where $B_s$ is related to integration constant from energy conservation equation as another model parameter, is presented. Then by using Markov Chain Monte Carlo method with current available cosmic observational data sets which include type Ia supernova Union 2, baryon acoustic oscillation and WMAP 7-year data of cosmic background radiation, we show that small values of $\alpha$ are favored in this unified dark fluid model.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.3701

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