Redshift drift exploration for interacting dark energy

Jan 15, 2015
6 pages
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  • Eur.Phys.J.C 75 (2015) 8, 356
  • Published: Aug 4, 2015
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Abstract: (Springer)
By detecting redshift drift in the spectra of the Lyman- α\alpha forest of distant quasars, the Sandage–Loeb (SL) test directly measures the expansion of the universe, covering the “redshift desert” of 2z52 \lesssim z \lesssim 5 . Thus this method is definitely an important supplement to the other geometric measurements and will play a crucial role in cosmological constraints. In this paper, we quantify the ability of the SL test signal by a CODEX-like spectrograph for constraining interacting dark energy. Four typical interacting dark energy models are considered: (i) Q=γHρcQ=\gamma H\rho _c , (ii) Q=γHρdeQ=\gamma H\rho _{de} , (iii) Q=γH0ρcQ=\gamma H_0\rho _c , and (iv) Q=γH0ρdeQ=\gamma H_0\rho _{de} . The results show that for all the considered interacting dark energy models, relative to the current joint SN  ++  BAO  ++  CMB  ++   H0H_0 observations, the constraints on Ωm\Omega _m and H0H_0 would be improved by about 60 and 30–40 %, while the constraints on w and γ\gamma would be slightly improved, with a 30-year observation of the SL test. We also explore the impact of the SL test on future joint geometric observations. In this analysis, we take the model with Q=γHρcQ=\gamma H\rho _c as an example, and we simulate future SN and BAO data based on the space-based project WFIRST. We find that with the future geometric constraints, the redshift drift observations would help break the geometric degeneracies in a meaningful way, thus the measurement precisions of Ωm\Omega _m , H0H_0 , w, and γ\gamma could be substantially improved using future probes.
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  • 6 pages, 5 figures; accepted for publication in EPJC. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1407.7123