Quintessence at Galactic Level?
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
Recently it has been proposed that the main contributor to the dark energy of the Universe is a dynamical, slow evolving, spatially inhomogeneous scalar field called quintessence. We investigate the behavior of this scalar field at galactic level by assuming that it is the dark matter compossing the halos of galaxies. Using an exact solution of the Einstein's equations we find an excellent concordance between our results and observations.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0002126,
title = {Quintessence at Galactic Level?},
author = {T. Matos and F. S. Guzman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0002126},
year = {2007}
}
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3 pages, 2 .ps figures. Requires REVTeX