Variation of fundamental parameters and dark energy: A principal component approach

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2012

Authors

Martins, CJAP (Author) Other

Journal

Title: Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Vol. 86 No. 025008

Initial page: 063515

ISSN: 1550-7998

Publisher: American Physical Society

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Authenticus ID: P-002-5EX

DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.86.063515

Abstract (EN): Received 12 October 2011; revised manuscript received 8 August 2012; published 17 September 2012) We discuss methods based on principal component analysis to constrain the dark energy equation of state using a combination of Type Ia supernovae at low redshift and spectroscopic measurements of varying fundamental couplings at higher redshifts. We discuss the performance of this method when future better-quality data sets are available, focusing on two forthcoming European southern observatory (ESO) spectrographs-Echelle spectrograph for rocky exoplanet and stable spectroscopic observations (ESPRESSO) for the very large telescope (VLT) and Cosmic dynamics explorer (CODEX) for the European extremely large telescope (E-ELT)-which include these measurements as a key part of their science cases. These can realize the prospect of a detailed characterization of dark energy properties almost all the way up to redshift 4.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 9