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Interacting Chaplygin gas

Astrophysics 2009-11-13 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We investigate a kind of interacting Chaplygin gas model in which the Chaplygin gas plays the role of dark energy and interacts with cold dark matter particles. We find that there exists a stable scaling solution at late times with the Universe evolving into a phase of steady state. Furthermore, the effective equation of state of Chaplygin gas may cross the so-called phantom divide w=1w=-1. The above results are derived from continuity equations, which means that they are independent of any gravity theories. Assuming standard general relativity and a spatially flat FRW metric, we also find the deceleration parameter is well consistent with current observations.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0509895,
  title  = {Interacting Chaplygin gas},
  author = {Hongsheng Zhang and Zong-Hong Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0509895},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

7 pages, 6 figures, detailed discussions on the interaction term added