Reconstructing the cosmic equation of state from supernova distances |
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Authors: | Saini T D Raychaudhury S Sahni V Starobinsky A A |
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Institution: | Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Puné 411 007, India. saini@iucaa.ernet.in |
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Abstract: | Observations of high-redshift supernovae indicate that the Universe is accelerating. Here we present a model-independent method for estimating the form of the potential V(phi) of the scalar field driving this acceleration, and the associated equation of state w(phi). Our method is based on a versatile analytical form for the luminosity distance D(L), optimized to fit observed distances to distant supernovae and differentiated to yield V(straight phi) and w(straight phi). Our results favor w(phi) approximately -1 at the present epoch, steadily increasing with redshift. A cosmological constant is consistent with our results. |
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