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Present and future evidence for evolving dark energy

December 2006 • 2006PhRvD..74l3506L

Authors • Liddle, Andrew R. • Mukherjee, Pia • Parkinson, David • Wang, Yun

Abstract • We compute the Bayesian evidences for one- and two-parameter models of evolving dark energy, and compare them to the evidence for a cosmological constant, using current data from Type Ia supernova, baryon acoustic oscillations, and the cosmic microwave background. We use only distance information, ignoring dark energy perturbations. We find that, under various priors on the dark energy parameters, ΛCDM is currently favored as compared to the dark energy models. We consider the parameter constraints that arise under Bayesian model averaging, and discuss the implication of our results for future dark energy projects seeking to detect dark energy evolution. The model selection approach complements and extends the figure-of-merit approach of the Dark Energy Task Force in assessing future experiments, and suggests a significantly-modified interpretation of that statistic.

Links

PREPRINT http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0610126
ELECTR http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.74.123506
SPIRES http://inspirehep.net/search?p=find+eprint+astro-ph/0610126

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Yun Wang

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