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Growth of perturbations in dark energy parametrization scenarios

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2018-05-23 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we study the evolution of dark matter perturbations in the linear regime by considering the possibility of dark energy perturbations. To do this, two popular parameterizations, CPL and BA with same number of free parameters and different redshift dependency have been considered. We integrate the full relativistic equations to obtain the growth of matter fluctuations for both clustering and smooth versions of CPL and BA dark energy. The growth rate is larger (smaller) than the Λ\LambdaCDM in the smooth cases when w<1w<-1 (w>1w>-1) but the dark energy clustering gives a larger (smaller) growth index when w>1w>-1 (w<1w<-1). We measure the relative difference of the growth rate with respect to concordance Λ\LambdaCDM and study how it changes depending on the free parameters. Furthermore, it is found that the difference of growth rates between smooth CPL and BA is negligible, less than 0.5%0.5\%, while for clustering case, the difference is considerable and might be as large as 2%\%. Eventually, using the latest geometrical and growth rate observational data, we perform an overall likelihood analysis and show that both smooth and clustering cases of CPL and BA parameterizations are consistent with observations. In particular, we find the dark energy FoM 70\sim70 for the BA and 30\sim30 for the CPL which indicates BA model constraints relatively better than CPL one.

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@article{arxiv.1804.09886,
  title  = {Growth of perturbations in dark energy parametrization scenarios},
  author = {A. Mehrabi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.09886},
  year   = {2018}
}

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Accepted for publication in PRD