Updated dark energy view of inflation
Autor: | Martin Kunz, Sveva Castello, S. Ilić |
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Přispěvatelé: | Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique et Atmosphères = Laboratory for Studies of Radiation and Matter in Astrophysics and Atmospheres (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA (UMR_8112)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2021 |
Předmět: |
cosmological model
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) satellite: Planck FOS: Physical sciences Cosmological constant Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics hierarchy 01 natural sciences Monte Carlo: Markov chain Theoretical physics symbols.namesake High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) power spectrum: scalar Astronomi astrofysik och kosmologi 98.80.-k 0103 physical sciences Astronomy Astrophysics and Cosmology Planck dark energy constituent 010303 astronomy & astrophysics equation of state Physics Inflation (cosmology) Spectral index cosmological constant Hubble constant 010308 nuclear & particles physics Equation of state (cosmology) 98.80.Es inflation: slow-roll approximation Order (ring theory) 95.36.+x Inflaton BICEP inflation: model inflaton field theory: scalar High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [PHYS.HPHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph] symbols Dark energy history expansion: acceleration [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph] Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics |
Zdroj: | Physical Review D Physical Review D, 2021, 104 (2), pp.023522. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevD.104.023522⟩ Physical Review D, American Physical Society, 2021, 104 (2), pp.023522. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevD.104.023522⟩ |
ISSN: | 1550-7998 1550-2368 |
DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.023522⟩ |
Popis: | The present epoch of accelerated cosmic expansion is supposed to be driven by an unknown constituent called dark energy, which in the standard model takes the form of a cosmological constant, characterized by a constant equation of state w=-1. An interesting perspective over the role and nature of dark energy can be achieved by drawing a parallel with a previous epoch of accelerated expansion, inflation, which we assume to be driven by a single scalar field, the inflaton. Since the Planck satellite has constrained the value of $n_s$ away from 1, the inflaton cannot be identified with a pure cosmological constant, as is also suggested by the fact that inflation ended. Thus, it is interesting to verify whether a hypothetical observer would have been able to measure the deviation of the w of the inflaton from -1. To do so, we consider a class of single-field slow-roll inflationary models dubbed HSR{i}, where the hierarchy of Hubble slow-roll parameters is truncated at the i-th order. The models are tested through a MCMC analysis based on combinations of the latest Planck and BICEP2/Keck data sets, and the resulting chains are converted into sets of allowed evolution histories of w. HSR{1} is excluded observationally since it would predict that $n_s=1$, in contrast with the recent Planck constraints, while we find that HSR{2} would prefer w>-1, but is disfavoured by the addition of the BICEP2/Keck data. The overall best description for the data is provided by HSR{3}, which yields a 68% upper bound of 1+w 9 pages, 3 figures; updated to match published version |
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