Probing dark energy with the Sandage-Loeb test

Oct, 2012
6 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 86 (2012) 123001
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Abstract: (arXiv)
Future redshift-drift measurements (also known as Sandage-Loeb signal) will be crucial to probe the so called "redshift desert", thus providing a new tool for cosmological studies. In this paper we quantify the ability of a future measurement of the Sandage-Loeb signal by a CODEX-like spectrograph to constrain a phenomenological parametrization of dynamical dark energy, specifically by obtaining constraints on w0w_0 and waw_a. We also demonstrate that if used alongside CMB data, the Sandage-Loeb measurements will be able to break degeneracies between expansion parameters, thus greatly improving cosmological constraints.
Note:
  • 6 pages, 7 figures. New version matching the one accepted by PRD
  • 95.36.+x
  • 98.54.Aj
  • 98.80.Es