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Cosmological structure formation and dark energy. Carlo Baccigalupi Madrid, November 15, 2005. L. Cosmological Constant Problem. G µ ν =8 π T ν. f. L. Cosmological Constant Problem. Geometry. G ν + g ν =8 π T ν + V g ν. f. Quantum Vacuum. L.
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Cosmological structure formation and dark energy Carlo Baccigalupi Madrid, November 15, 2005
L Cosmological Constant Problem Gµν=8πTν f
L Cosmological Constant Problem Geometry Gν+ gν=8πTν+Vgν f Quantum Vacuum
L Cosmological Constant Problem : ? |-V|/M4Planck≈10-123 f 4 V: ? M Planck
?? L for Physics Two Why so small with respect to any particle physics scale ? ? f Why comparable to the cosmological matter density today
outline • Quintessence scheme • Cosmological expansion rate • Cosmological perturbations • Cosmic microwave background • Gravitational lensing • Non-linear structure formation • Quintessence, dark matter and gravity • Conclusion
The Quintessence: a minimal generalization of • setting up a phenomenology of the impact of vacuum energy in cosmology • Predicting observable signatures if the acceleration is not due to a constant into the Einstein equations
Quintessence tracking solutions • Classical trajectories for the Quintessence field converging to the present energy density from a large set of initial conditions • The field may (Wetterich 1988) or may not (Ratra-Peebles 1998) scale as the dominant component • Dark energy abundance today still severely tuned
Where are we now? L Present constraints from CMB and LSS on the redshift average of the equation of state: -1.1 ≤‹w›z≤ -0.9 Quest to be continued, the study of the dark energy is one of the core topics of the Beyond Einstein (NASA) and Cosmic Vision (ESA) programs for the next decades… f
Cosmological expansion rate • For a fixed value today, H is larger if w > -1 in the past • The comoving distance at a given redshift gets contracted • The redshift dependence of w is washed out by two redshift integrals
Cosmological expansion rate • For a fixed value today, H-1 is larger if w > -1 in the past • The comoving distance at a given redshift gets contracted • The redshift dependence of w is washed out by two redshift integrals
Effects on cosmological perturbations • Modified geometry affects the growth of linear perturbations • The dark energy possesses fluctuations which are dragged on large scales by the background evolution (Brax & Martin 2000)
Effects on cosmological perturbations • Modified geometry affects the growth of linear perturbations • The dark energy possesses fluctuations which are dragged on large scales by the background evolution (Brax & Martin 2000)
Effects from modified geometry • For w greater than -1, the cosmological friction gets enhanced for a fixed H0 • This affects the linear density perturbations growth and the dynamics of the gravitational potentials on all scales in linear regime
Effects from quintessence perturbations • A minimally coupled quintessence field is light, mf»(d2V/df2)1/2» H-1 • Fluctuations live on horizon and super-horizon scales • Excess power visible on small wavenumbers in the density power spectrum (Ma et al. 1999)
Effects at decoupling • If the dark energy tracks the dominant component at a few percent level, the physics at decoupling is affected at a measurable level (early quintessence, see Caldwell et al. 2005 and references therein) • The equivalence epoch is shifted • The dark energy sound speed enters into the acoustic oscillations
Constraining dark energy with primary CMB anisotropies • Main effect from the shift of acoustic peaks due to the variation of distances • The constraining power is limited by the projection degeneracy
Constraining dark energy with primary CMB anisotropies • Assume flatness, fix H, gravitational waves in single field inflation • Fit with B98, COBE, MAXIMA, DASI, get some preference for a dynamical dark energy (Baccigalupi et al. 2002) • Mind degeneracies • Is WMAP Wtot=1.02±0.02 a similar indication? • Probably not…
Main predictions of CMB lensing Non-Gaussianity
The promise of CMB lensing z z ≈ 1
The promise of CMB lensing z acceleration z ≈ 1
Weak lensing in dark energy cosmology • Probing intermediate redshifts only • Collecting effects from modified geometry and perturbations • Details in Acquaviva et al. 2004
Breaking the projection degeneracy Dark energy records in lensed CMB, Acquaviva and Baccigalupi, 2005
Breaking the projection degeneracy Dark energy records in lensed CMB, Acquaviva and Baccigalupi, 2005
Probing dark energy with CMB B modes from lensing • B modes are lensing dominated at arcminute scales • The lensing picks up power at the onset of acceleration only • Cosmic variance is not simply Gaussian • Near future probes: EBEx, Quad, Clover, …
CMB bispectrum l1 l3 l2
Lensing chronology Giovi et al. 2003, PhD thesis
CMB three-point statistics and dark energy Giovi et al. 2003, 2005, PhD thesis
CMB three-point statistics and dark energy Giovi et al. 2003, 2005, PhD thesis
Matthias Bartelmann Massimo Meneghetti Klaus Dolag Carlo Baccigalupi Viviana Acquaviva Francesca Perrotta Lauro Moscardini
Matthias Bartelmann Massimo Meneghetti Klaus Dolag Carlo Baccigalupi Viviana Acquaviva Francesca Perrotta Lauro Moscardini Heidelberg
Matthias Bartelmann Massimo Meneghetti Klaus Dolag Carlo Baccigalupi Viviana Acquaviva Francesca Perrotta Lauro Moscardini MPA, Garching
Matthias Bartelmann Massimo Meneghetti Klaus Dolag Carlo Baccigalupi Viviana Acquaviva Francesca Perrotta Lauro Moscardini SISSA, Trieste
Matthias Bartelmann Massimo Meneghetti Klaus Dolag Carlo Baccigalupi Viviana Acquaviva Francesca Perrotta Lauro Moscardini Bologna
Dark energy records in galaxy cluster concentrations Dolag et al. 2004
Strong lensing arc statistics • Numerical ray tracing machines integrate null geodesics across structures out of N-body codes • Internal parameters of structures may be constrained through the lensing pattern Meneghetti et al. 2004