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  • Probing a steep EoS for dar...
    Jaber, Mariana; Macorra, Axel de la

    Astroparticle physics, January 2018, 2018-01-00, Letnik: 97
    Journal Article

    We present a parametrization for the Dark Energy Equation of State “EoS” which has a rich structure, performing a transition at pivotal redshift zT between the present day value w0 to an early time wi=wa+w0≡w(z≫0) with a steepness given in terms of q parameter. The proposed parametrization is w=w0+wa(z/zT)q/(1+(z/zT))q, with w0, wi, q and zT constant parameters. It reduces to the widely used EoS w=w0+wa(1−a) for zT=q=1. This transition is motivated by scalar field dynamics such as for example quintessence models. We study if a late time transition is favored by BAO measurements combined with local determination of H0 and information from the CMB. We find that our dynamical DE model allows to simultaneously fit H0 from local determinations and Planck CMB measurements, alleviating the tension obtained in a ΛCDM model. We obtain a smaller χ2 in our DE model than in ΛCDM showing that a dynamical DE is preferred with a reduction of 4.8%, 20.2% and 42.8% using BAO + H0, BAO + CMB and BAO + CMB + H0 datasets, respectively. However due to the increased number of free parameters in the EoS information criteria favors ΛCDM over our DE model at this stage. Nevertheless it is crucial to obtain the dynamics of DE from the observational data to show the path for theoretical DE models based on fundamental physics.