Limits on decaying dark energy density models from the CMB temperature-redshift relation

DOI10.1007/S10714-010-1091-4MaRDI QIDQ538347zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors P. Jetzer, Denis Puy, Monique Signore, Crescenzo Tortora

Publication date 25 May 2011

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.2325

zbMATH Keywords

dark energythermodynamicsSunyaev-Zel'dovich effect

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

Abstract: The nature of the dark energy is still a mystery and several models have been proposed to explain it. Here we consider a phenomenological model for dark energy decay into photons and particles as proposed by Lima (J. Lima, Phys. Rev. D 54, 2571 (1996)). He studied the thermodynamic aspects of decaying dark energy models in particular in the case of a continuous photon creation and/or disruption. Following his approach, we derive a temperature redshift relation for the CMB which depends on the effective equation of state $w_{eff}$ and on the "adiabatic index" $gamma$. Comparing our relation with the data on the CMB temperature as a function of the redshift obtained from Sunyaev-Zel'dovich observations and at higher redshift from quasar absorption line spectra, we find $w_{eff}=-0.97pm0.034$, adopting for the adiabatic index $gamma=4/3$, in good agreement with current estimates and still compatible with $w_{eff}=-1$, implying that the dark energy content being constant in time.

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