The Fate of the Universe: Dark Energy Dilution?

dc.creatorde la Macorra, A.
dc.date2007-01-23
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:00:43Z
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dc.descriptionWe study the possibility that dark energy decays in the future and the universe stops accelerating. The fact thatthe cosmological observations prefer an equation of state of dark energy smaller than -1 can be a signal that dark energy will decay in the future. This conclusion is based in interpreting a w<-1 as a signal of dark energy interaction with another fluid. We determine the interaction through the cosmological data and extrapolate it into the future. The resulting energy density for dark energy becomes rho=a^{-3(1+w)}e^{-β(a-1)}, i.e. it has an exponential suppression for a >> a_o=1. In this scenario the universe ends up dominated by this other fluid, which could be matter, and the universe stops accelerating at some time in the near future.
dc.description5 pages, 3 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0701635
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0701635
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.D76:027301,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevD.76.027301
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/187748
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleThe Fate of the Universe: Dark Energy Dilution?
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