Do Type-Ia Supernovae Constrain the Total Equation of State?

dc.creatorKomp, William
dc.date2005-11-28
dc.date2007-02-01
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T07:44:09Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T07:44:09Z
dc.descriptionIn this paper, we consider a couple of alternative dark energy models using the total equation of state of the cosmological fluid, $\wt$. These models are fit to the recent type-Ia supernovae data and are compared to previously considered models. The first model is based on the hyperbolic tangent and provides a good estimate of the rate of the transition to dark energy domination. The second model is a cubic spline model. This model demonstrates and quantifies the non-monotonicity in the total equation of state coming from the supernovae observations. At present, the supernovae observations indicate significance to non-monotonically decreasing dark energy. We derive constraints on the spline paramters and compare and constrast the results to the Cosmological Constant dark energy model. Both the hyperbolic and splines models indicate that a precise physical notion of dark enegy is a potentially ever more mysterious quantity?
dc.descriptionversion 2, 21 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables, submitted to Prd
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0511763
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0511763
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/123090
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.titleDo Type-Ia Supernovae Constrain the Total Equation of State?
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