The integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect in cosmologies with coupled dark matter and dark energy
Abstract
The subject of this paper is the derivation of the integrated Sachs-Wolfe (iSW) effect in cosmologies with coupled dark matter and dark energy fluids. These couplings influence the iSW-effect in three ways: The Hubble function assumes a different scaling, the structure growth rate shows a different time evolution, and in addition, the Poisson equation, which relates the density perturbations to fluctuations in the gravitational potential, is changed, due to the violation of the scaling rho ~ a^{-3} of the matter density rho with scale factor a. Exemplarily, I derive the iSW-spectra for a model in which dark matter decays into dark energy, investigate the influence of the dark matter decay rate and the dark energy equation of state on the iSW-signal, and discuss the analogies for gravitational lensing. Quite generally iSW-measurements should reach similar accuracy in determining the dark energy equation of state parameter and the coupling constant.
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@article{arxiv.0803.2239,
title = {The integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect in cosmologies with coupled dark matter and dark energy},
author = {Bjoern Malte Schaefer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0803.2239},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
5 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, submitted to MNRAS