Large scale structure and the generalised Chaplygin gas as dark energy

We study the late-time evolution of the Universe where dark energy (DE) is parametrized by a modified generalized Chaplygin gas (mGCG) on top of cold dark matter (CDM). We also take into account the radiation content of the Universe. In this context, the late stage of the evolution of the universe refers to the epoch where CDM is already clustered into inhomogeneously distributed discrete structures (galaxies, groups and clusters of galaxies). Under these conditions, the mech...

We will extend the study of the new generalized Chaplygin gas (NGCG) based on [JCAP 0601(2006)003]. Concretely, we will not only discuss the change rates of the energy densities and the energy transfer of this model, but also perform the $Om$ diagnostic to differentiate the $\Lambda$CDM model from the NGCG and the GCG models. Furthermore, in order to consider the influence of dark energy on the structure formation, we also present the evolution of growth index in this scenari...

We propose in this paper a new model for describing the unification of dark energy and dark matter. This new model is a further generalization of the generalized Chaplygin gas (GCG) model, thus dubbed new generalized Chaplygin gas (NGCG) model. The equation of state of the NGCG is given by $p = - \tilde{A}(a)/\rho^{\alpha}$, where $a$ is the scale factor and $\tilde{A}(a)=-w_XAa^{-3(1+w_X)(1+\alpha)}$. We show that the NGCG model is totally dual to an interacting XCDM paramet...

Spherically symmetric dark energy structures are investigated in the framework of a generalized Chaplygin gas (GCG), which has an equation of state of the form $P = - A/\rho^{\alpha}} $. We also study these in a modified GCG equation of state, which includes a matter term, i.e. $P = \sigma^{2} \rho - A/\rho^{\alpha}$. The results of the latter are then compared with some observational data on low-surface-brightness galaxies which are supposed to be dominated by dark matter.

Despite the interest in dark matter and dark energy, it has never been shown that they are in fact two separate substances. We provide the first strong evidence that they are separate by ruling out a broad class of so-called unified dark matter models that have attracted much recent interest. We find that they produce oscillations or exponential blowup of the matter power spectrum inconsistent with observation. For the particular case of generalized Chaplygin gas models, 99.9...

We study cosmological models with modified Chaplygin gas (in short, MCG) to determine observational constraints on its EoS parameters. The observational data of the background and the growth tests are employed. The background test data namely, H(z)-z data, CMB shift parameter, Baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO) peak parameter, SN Ia data are considered to study the dynamical aspects of the universe. The growth test data we employ here consists of the linear growth function ...

The fact that Einstein's equations connect the space-time geometry to the total matter content of the cosmic substratum, but not to individual contributions of the matter species, can be translated into a degeneracy in the cosmological dark sector. Such degeneracy makes it impossible to distinguish cases where dark energy (DE) interacts with dark matter (DM) from a dynamical non-interacting scenario using observational data based only on time or distance measurements. In this...

We explicitly demonstrate that, contrary to recent claims, the dynamics of a generalized Chaplygin gas model with an equation of state $p=-C$ (where $C$ is a positive constant) is equivalent to that of a standard $\Lambda$CDM model to first order in the metric perturbations. We further argue that the analogy between the two models goes well beyond linear theory and conclude that they cannot be distinguished based on gravity alone.

We study the generalized Chaplygin gas (GCG) scenario in a modified gravity approach. That is, we impose that our universe has a pure dust configuration, and allow for a modification of gravity that yields a GCG specific scale factor evolution. Moreover, assuming that this new hypothetical gravity theory obeys a generalization of Birkhoff's law, we determine the Schwarzschild-like metric in this new modified gravity. We also study the large scale structure formation in this m...

In this paper, we undertake a unified study of background dynamics and cosmological perturbations in the presence of the Chaplygin gas. This is done by first constraining the background cosmological parameters of different Chaplygin gas models with SNIa and $H(z)$ data for detailed statistical analysis of the CG models. Based on the statistical criteria we followed, none of the models has substantial observational support, but we show that the so-called `original' and `extend...