Fate of the universe, age of the universe, dark matter, and the decaying vacuum energy

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 520, Issue 1 PART 1, 1999, Pages 45-53

  Özer, Murat ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Cosmology: theory; Dark matter

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033587448     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/307418     Document Type: Article

References (63)

1. Abdel-Rahman, A.-M. M. 1992, Phys. Rev. D, 45, 3497
2. Al-Rawaf, A. S., & Taha, M. O. 1996, Gen. Relativ. Gravitation, 28, 935
3. Arbab, A. I., & Abdel-Rahman, A.-M. M. 1994, Phys. Rev. D, 50, 7725
4. Berman, M. S. 1991, Phys. Rev. D, 43, 1075
5. Blome, H. J., & Priester, W. 1985, Ap&SS, 117, 327
6. Bolte, M., & Hogan, C. J. 1995, Nature, 376, 399
7. Brown, M. E., & Peebles, P. J. E. 1987, ApJ, 317, 588
8. Carlberg, R. G., Yee, H. K. C., & Ellingson, E. 1997, ApJ, 478, 462
9. Carr, B. 1994, ARA&A, 32, 531
10. Carroll, S. M., Press, W. H., & Turner, E. L. 1992, ARA&A, 30, 499
11. Carvalho, J. C., Lima, J. A. S., & Waga, I. 1992, Phys. Rev. D, 46, 2404
12. Chaboyer, B., Demarque, P., & Sarajedini, A. 1996, ApJ, 459, 558
13. Chen, W., & Wu, Y. S. 1990, Phys. Rev. D, 41, 695; erratum 1992 Phys. Rev. D, 45, 4728
14. Chen, W., & Wu, Y. S. 1990, Phys. Rev. D, 41, 695; erratum 1992 Phys. Rev. D, 45, 4728
15. Copi, C. J., Schramm, D. N., & Turner, M. S. 1995, Science, 267, 192
16. Dekel, A., Burnstein, D., & White, S. 1997, in Critical Dialogues in Cosmology, ed. N. Turok (Singapore: World Scientific), 175
17. Feast, M. W., & Catchpole, R. M. 1997, MNRAS, 286, L1
18. Felten, J. E., & Isaacman, R. 1986, Rev. Mod. Phys., 58, 689
19. Freedman, W. L., Madore, B. F., & Kennicutt, R. C. 1997, in The Extragalactic Distance Scale, ed. M. Donahue & M. Livio (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press), 171
20. Fukugita, M., Futamese, T., & Kasai, M. 1990, MNRAS, 246, 24P
21. Gasperini, M. 1987, Phys. Lett. B, 194, 3406
22. _. 1988, Classical Quantum Gravity, 5, 521
23. Kamionkowski M., & Toumbas, N. 1996, Phys. Rev. Lett., 77, 587
24. Kim, A. G., et al. 1997, ApJ, 476, L63
25. Klapdor, H. P., & Grotz, K. 1986, ApJ, 301, L39
26. Kochanek, C. S. 1993, ApJ, 419, 12
27. _. 1995, ApJ, 453, 545
28. Landsberg, P. T., & Evans, D. A. 1979, Mathematical Cosmology (Oxford: Clarendon Press)
29. Malaney, R. A., & Mathews, G. J. 1993, Phys. Rep., 229, 145
30. Maoz, D., & Rix, H.-W. 1993, ApJ, 416, 425
31. Matyjasek, J. 1995, Phys. Rev. D, 51, 4154
32. Misner, C. W., Thorne, K. S., & Wheeler, J. A. 1970, Gravitation (San Francisco: Freeman)
33. Olson ,T. S., & Jordan, T. F. 1987, Phys. Rev. D, 35, 3258
34. Özer, M., & Taha, M. O. 1986, Phys. Lett. B, 171, 363
35. Özer, M., & Taha, M. O. 1987, Nucl. Phys. B, 287, 776
36. _. 1992, Phys. Rev. D, 45, R997
37. Peebles, P. J. E. 1984, ApJ, 284, 439
38. _. 1986, Nature, 321, 27
39. _. 1993, Principles of Physical Cosmology (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press)
40. Peebles, P. J. E., & Ratra, B. 1988, ApJ, 325, L17
41. Perlmutter, S., et al. 1997, ApJ, 483, 565
42. Primack, J. R. 1996, SLAC-Report 484, 99
43. Ratra, B., & Peebles, P. J. E. 1988, Phys. Rev. D, 37, 3406
44. Ratra, B., & Quillen, A. 1992, MNRAS, 259, 738
45. Reid, I.N. 1997, AJ, 114, 161
46. Rindler, W. 1977, Essential Relativity, Special, General, and Cosmological (2d ed.; Berlin: Springer)
47. Sandage, A. 1997, preprint
48. Sandage, A., Saha, A., Tammann, G. A., Labhardt, L., Panagia, N., & Macchetto, F. D. 1996, ApJ, 460, L15
49. Sandquist, E. L., Bolte, M., Stetson, P. B., & Hesser, J. E. 1996, ApJ, 470, 910
50. Schwarzschild, B. 1997, Phys. Today, September, 19
51. Shaya, E. J., Peebles, P. J. E., & Tully, R. B. 1995, ApJ, 454, 15
52. Spergel, D., & Pen U. 1997, ApJ, 491, L67
53. Srednicki, M. 1996, SLAC-Report 484, 199
54. Tammann, G. A., & Sandage, A. 1996, in IAU Symp. 168, Examining the Big Bang and Diffuse Background Radiations, ed. M. Kafatos & Y. Kondo (Dordrecht: Kluwer), 163
55. Trimble, V. 1996, Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.), 51B, 5
56. Turner, E. L. 1990, ApJ, 365, L43
57. Turner, M. S., Steigman, G., & Kraus, L. M. 1984, Phys. Rev. Lett., 52, 2090
58. Vilenkin, A. 1984, Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 1016
59. Vilenkin, A., & Shellard, E. P. S. 1993, Cosmic Strings and Other Topological Defects (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press)
60. Waga, I. 1993, ApJ, 414, 436
61. Walker, T., Steigman, G., Schramm, D. N., Olive, K. A., & Kang, H. S. 1991, ApJ, 376, 51
62. Weinberg, S. 1972, Gravitation and Cosmology (New York: John Wiley & Sons)
63. _. 1989, Rev. Mod. Phys., 61, 1