Tachyon dark energy models: dynamics and constraints
Astrophysics
2009-11-11 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We explore the dynamics of dark energy models based on a Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) tachyonic action, studying a range of potentials. We numerically investigate the existence of tracking behaviour and determine the present-day value of the equation of state parameter and its running, which are compared with observational bounds. We find that tachyon models have quite similar phenomenology to canonical quintessence models. While some potentials can be selected amongst many possibilities and fine-tuned to give viable scenarios, there is no apparent advantage in choosing a DBI scalar field instead of a Klein-Gordon one.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0606003,
title = {Tachyon dark energy models: dynamics and constraints},
author = {Gianluca Calcagni and Andrew R. Liddle},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0606003},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
10 pages, 4 figures. v2: references added, matches the published version