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The peculiar velocity field in a quintessence model

Astrophysics 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

We investigate the evolution of matter density perturbations and some properties of the peculiar velocity field for a special class of exponential potentials in a scalar field model for quintessence, for which a general exact solution is known. The data from the 2-degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) suggest a value of the today pressureless matter density Omega_M0 = 0.18 +- 0.05.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0203205,
  title  = {The peculiar velocity field in a quintessence model},
  author = {Claudio Rubano and Mauro Sereno},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0203205},
  year   = {2008}
}

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11 pages, 3 figures