Virialization in Dark Energy Cosmology
Author(s) -
Peng Wang
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
the astrophysical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.376
H-Index - 489
eISSN - 1538-4357
pISSN - 0004-637X
DOI - 10.1086/500074
Subject(s) - physics , dark energy , cosmology , dark matter , astrophysics , homogeneous , radius , energy (signal processing) , statistical physics , quantum mechanics , computer security , computer science
We discuss the issue of energy nonconservation in the virialzation process ofspherical collapse model with homogeneous dark energy. We propose anapproximation scheme to find the virialization radius. By comparing variousschemes and estimating the parameter characterizing the ratio of dark energy todark matter at the turn-around time, we conclude that the problem of energynonconservation may have sizable effects in fitting models to observations.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figures, explanation added. Accepted by Astrophysical Journa
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