Future weak lensing constraints in a dark coupled universe

Apr, 2011
8 pages
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  • Phys.Rev.D 84 (2011) 023504
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Abstract: (arXiv)
Coupled cosmologies can predict values for the cosmological parameters at low redshifts which may differ substantially from the parameters values within non-interacting cosmologies. Therefore, low redshift probes, as the growth of structure and the dark matter distribution via galaxy and weak lensing surveys constitute a unique tool to constrain interacting dark sector models. We focus here on weak lensing forecasts from future Euclid and LSST-like surveys combined with the ongoing Planck cosmic microwave background experiment. We find that these future data could constrain the dimensionless coupling to be smaller than a few ×102\times 10^{-2}. The coupling parameter ξ\xi is strongly degenerate with the cold dark matter energy density Ωch2\Omega_{c}h^2 and the Hubble constant H0H_0.These degeneracies may cause important biases in the cosmological parameter values if in the universe there exists an interaction among the dark matter and dark energy sectors.
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