Large-scale cosmic microwave background anisotropies and dark energy

Weller, J.; Lewis, Antony

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2003.07144.x

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“…Dynamical dark energy will have large-scale fluctuations [20]. Furthermore, it may also have non-negligible anisotropic stress and is thus able to mimic modifications in gravity [21].…”

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Probing Gravity at Cosmological Scales by Measurements which Test the Relationship between Gravitational Lensing and Matter Overdensity

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The standard cosmological model is based on general relativity and includes dark matter and dark energy. An important prediction of this model is a fixed relationship between the gravitational potentials responsible for gravitational lensing and the matter overdensity. Alternative theories of gravity often make different predictions for this relationship. We propose a set of measurements which can test the lensing/matter relationship, thereby distinguishing between dark energy/matter models and models in which gravity differs from general relativity. Planned optical, infrared and radio galaxy and lensing surveys will be able to measure EG, an observational quantity whose expectation value is equal to the ratio of the Laplacian of the Newtonian potentials to the peculiar velocity divergence, to percent accuracy. We show that this will easily separate alternatives such as ΛCDM, DGP, TeVeS and f (R) gravity.

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“…Dynamical dark energy will have large-scale fluctuations [20]. Furthermore, it may also have non-negligible anisotropic stress and is thus able to mimic modifications in gravity [21].…”

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confidence: 99%

Probing Gravity at Cosmological Scales by Measurements which Test the Relationship between Gravitational Lensing and Matter Overdensity

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“…The idea of generalized dark matter/energy has been considered previously by a number of authors [19,20,26,27,29,30,31]. We will attempt to discuss how the approaches suggested by others relate to those presented here.…”

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“…This will require us to go back to the fundamentals of how formulate a generalized continuum medium in General Relativity and derive equations for the perturbations in the medium. These are essential in computing accurate predictions for observed power spectra [16,20,26,27]. We will show that the most obvious generalization of a perfect fluid is to allow for rigidity of the medium in a way analogous to a continuum elastic solid [19], and that this can be stable if the rigidity is sufficiently large even if the pressure is negative.…”

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Cosmological perturbations in elastic dark energy models

Battye

Moss

2007

Phys. Rev. D

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We discuss the general framework for a perfect continuum medium in cosmology and show that an interesting generalization of the fluids normally used is for the medium to have rigidity and, hence, be analogous to an elastic solid. Such models can provide perfect, adiabatic fluids which are stable even when the pressure is negative, if the rigidity is sufficiently large, making them natural candidates to describe the dark energy. In fact, if the medium is adiabatic and isotropic, they provide the most general description of linearized perturbations. We derive the equations of motion and wave propagation speeds in the isotropic case. We point out that anisotropic models can also be incorporated within the same formalism and that they are classified by the standard Bravais Lattices. We identify the adiabatic and isocurvature modes allowed in both the scalar and vector sectors and discuss the predictions they make for CMB and matter power spectra. We comment on the relationship between these models and other fluid-based approaches to dark energy, and discuss a possible microphysical manifestation of this class of models as a continuum description of defect-dominated scenarios.

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“…More complicated models that have a sound speed (c 2 s = δp/δρ) much smaller than c allow fluctuations to grow on sub-horizon scales (e.g., Hu 1998;Erickson et al 2002;Weller and Lewis 2003;DeDeo et al 2003;Bean and Doré 2004). de Putter et al (2010) provide a clear discussion of the background physics and observable consequences of dark energy inhomogeneities.…”

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Observational probes of cosmic acceleration

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The accelerating expansion of the universe is the most surprising cosmological discovery in many decades, implying that the universe is dominated by some form of "dark energy" with exotic physical properties, or that Einstein's theory of gravity breaks down on cosmological scales. The profound implications of cosmic acceleration have inspired ambitious efforts to understand its origin, with experiments that aim to measure the history of expansion and growth of structure with percent-level precision or higher. We review in detail the four most well established methods for making such measurements: Type Ia supernovae, baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), weak gravitational lensing, and the abundance of galaxy clusters. We pay particular attention to the systematic uncertainties in these techniques and to strategies for controlling them at the level needed to exploit "Stage IV" dark energy facilities such as BigBOSS, LSST, Euclid, and WFIRST. We briefly review a number of other approaches including redshift-space distortions, the Alcock-Paczynski effect, and direct measurements of the Hubble constant H 0 . We present extensive forecasts for constraints on the dark energy equation of state and parameterized deviations from General Relativity, achievable with Stage III and Stage IV experimental programs that incorporate supernovae, BAO, weak lensing, and cosmic microwave background data. We also show the level of precision required for clusters or other methods to provide constraints competitive with those of these fiducial programs. We emphasize the value of a balanced program that employs several of the most powerful methods in combination, both to cross-check systematic uncertainties and to take advantage of complementary information. Surveys to probe cosmic acceleration produce data sets that support a wide range of scientific investigations, and they continue the longstanding astronomical tradition of mapping the universe in ever greater detail over ever larger scales.

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Large-scale cosmic microwave background anisotropies and dark energy

Cited by 257 publications

References 42 publications

Probing Gravity at Cosmological Scales by Measurements which Test the Relationship between Gravitational Lensing and Matter Overdensity

Probing Gravity at Cosmological Scales by Measurements which Test the Relationship between Gravitational Lensing and Matter Overdensity

Cosmological perturbations in elastic dark energy models

Observational probes of cosmic acceleration

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