Constraining the dark energy perturbations using growth index analysis [CEA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.2234


We derive a new formulation of the growth index of matter fluctuations in the regime where the dark energy is allowed to have clustering. In particular, we find that the growth index is not only affected by the cosmological parameters but rather it depends on the choice of the considered dark energy (homogeneous or clustered). Using the {\em Planck} priors and performing a standard $\chi^2$-minimization between theoretical expectations and growth data, we place tight constraints on the DE perturbations. As an example, close to the present time we obtain that $\delta_{de0}=0.108\pm 0.031$ for the quintessence model.Regarding the phantom model we find $\delta_{de0}=0.081\pm 0.022$. Also, we statistically quantify the ability of the growth index to represent the observations. Finally, based on the growth index analysis we find that the growth data favor the clustered dark energy scenario.

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S. Basilakos
Tue, 9 Dec 14
24/64

Comments: 7 pages, 2 figures (comments are welcome)