English

CMB acoustic scale in the entropic-like accelerating universe

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2011-08-08 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We consider generalizations of the entropic accelerating universe recently proposed in Ref. [4,5] and show that their background equations can be made equivalent to a model with a dark energy component with constant parameter of state wX=1+2γ/3w_{X} = -1 + 2\, \gamma /3, where γ\gamma is related to the coefficients of the new terms in the Friedman equations. After discussing all the Friedman equations for an arbitrary γ\gamma, we show how to recover the standard scalings for dust and radiation. The acoustic scale A\ell_A, related to the peak positions in the pattern of the angular power spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropies, is also computed and yields the stringent bound γ1|\gamma|\ll 1. We then argue that future data might be able to distinguish this model from pure Λ\LambdaCDM (corresponding to γ=0\gamma=0).

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@article{arxiv.1005.0790,
  title  = {CMB acoustic scale in the entropic-like accelerating universe},
  author = {Roberto Casadio and Alessandro Gruppuso},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.0790},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

6 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in Physical Review D