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Model-independent dark energy test with sigma8 using results from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe

Martin Kunz, Pier-Stefano Corasaniti, David Parkinson, Edmund J. Copeland

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0307346

Abstract

By combining the recent WMAP measurements of the cosmic microwave background anisotropies and the results of the recent luminosity distance measurements to type-Ia supernovae, we find that the normalization of the matter power spectrum on cluster scales, sigma8, can be used to discriminate between dynamical models of dark energy (quintessence models) and a conventional cosmological constant model (LCDM).

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