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Dark energy from $\alpha$ -attractors: phenomenology and observational constraints

Carlos García-García
(
- CSIC, IFF, Madrid and
- ICC, Barcelona U.
)
,
Eric V. Linder
(
- BCCP, Berkeley and
- Nazarbayev U., Astana
)
,
Pilar Ruíz-Lapuente
(
- CSIC, IFF, Madrid and
- ICC, Barcelona U.
)
,
Miguel Zumalacárregui
(
- BCCP, Berkeley and
- IPhT, Saclay
)

Mar 1, 2018

23 pages

Published in:

JCAP 08 (2018) 022

Published: Aug 17, 2018

e-Print:

1803.00661 [astro-ph.CO]

DOI:

10.1088/1475-7516/2018/08/022 (publication)

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Abstract: (IOP)

The possibility of linking inflation and late cosmic accelerated expansion using the α-attractor models has received increasing attention due to their physical motivation. In the early universe, α-attractors provide an inflationary mechanism compatible with Planck satellite CMB observations and predictive for future gravitational wave CMB modes. Additionally α-attractors can be written as quintessence models with a potential that connects a power law regime with a plateau or uplifted exponential, allowing a late cosmic accelerated expansion that can mimic behavior near a cosmological constant. In this paper we study a generalized dark energy α-attractor model. We thoroughly investigate its phenomenology, including the role of all model parameters and the possibility of large-scale tachyonic instability clustering. We verify the relation that 1+w~ 1/α (while the gravitational wave power r~α) so these models predict that a signature should appear in either the primordial B-modes or in late time deviation from a cosmological constant. We constrain the model parameters with current datasets, including the cosmic microwave background (Planck 2015 angular power spectrum, polarization and lensing), baryon acoustic oscillations (BOSS DR12) and supernovae (Pantheon compressed). Our results show that expansion histories close to a cosmological constant exist in large regions of the parameter space, not requiring a fine-tuning of the parameters or initial conditions.

Note:

V1: 23 pages, 14 figures, comments welcome. V2: 23 pages, 14 figures, added some minor corrections and a major modification: used the Full Planck Likelihood instead of the compressed one. This version is accepted for publication in JCAP

dark energy theory
cosmological parameters from CMBR
cosmological parameters from LSS
inflation
expansion: acceleration
baryon: oscillation: acoustic
B-mode: primordial
tachyon: stability
satellite: Planck
cosmic background radiation

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