Monday, April 16, 2012

1204.3066 (F. E. M. Costa et al.)

An interacting model for the cosmological dark sector    [PDF]

F. E. M. Costa, J. S. Alcaniz, Deepak Jain
We discuss a new interacting model for the cosmological dark sector in which the attenuated dilution of cold dark matter scales as $a^{-3}f(a)$, where f(a) is an arbitrary function of the cosmic scale factor $a$. From thermodynamic arguments, we show that f(a) is proportional to entropy source of the particle creation process. In order to investigate the cosmological consequences of this kind of interacting models, we expand f(a) in a power series and viable cosmological solutions are obtained. Finally, we use current observational data to place constraints on the interacting function f(a).
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.3066

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