Solar system constraints on Gauss-Bonnet mediated dark energy

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn , Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Amendola, Luca ^a   Charmousis, Christos ^b   Davis, Stephen C ^c  

^a INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI ROMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^c UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dark energy theory; Gravity; String theory and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 35748973541     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2007/10/004     Document Type: Article

References (61)

1. Riess AG et al (Supernova Search Team Collaboration) 1998 Observational evidence from supernovae for an accelerating universe and a cosmological constant Astron. J. 116 1009 [astro-ph/9805201]
2. Perlmutter S et al (Supernova Cosmology Project Collaboration) 1999 Measurements of omega and lambda from 42 high-redshift supernovae Astron. J. 517 565 [astro-ph/9812133]
3. Riess A G et al (Supernova Search Team Collaboration) 2004 Type Ia supernova discoveries at z>1 from the Hubble space telescope: evidence for past deceleration and constraints on dark energy evolution Astron. J. 607 665 [astro-ph/0402512]
4. Blanchard A, Douspis M, Rowan-Robinson M and Sarkar S 2003 An alternative to the cosmological concordance model Astron. Astrophys. 412 35 [astro-ph/0304237]
5. Weinberg S 1989 The cosmological constant problem Rev. Mod. Phys. 61 1
6. Wetterich C 1988 Cosmology and the fate of dilatation symmetry Nucl. Phys. B 302 668
7. Ratra B and Peebles P J E 1988 Cosmological consequences of a rolling homogeneous scalar field Phys. Rev. D 37 3406
8. Caldwell R R, Dave R and Steinhardt P J 1998 Cosmological imprint of an energy component with general equation-of-state Phys. Rev. Lett. 80 1582 [astro-ph/9708069]
9. Armendariz-Picon C, Mukhanov V F and Steinhardt P J 2000 A dynamical solution to the problem of a small cosmological constant and late-time cosmic acceleration Phys. Rev. Lett. 85 4438 [astro-ph/0004134]
10. Armendariz-Picon C, Mukhanov V F and Steinhardt P J 2001 Essentials of k-essence Phys. Rev. D 63 103510 [astro-ph/0006373]
11. Chiba T, Okabe T and Yamaguchi M 2000 Kinetically driven quintessence Phys. Rev. D 62 023511 [astro-ph/9912463]
12. Arkani-Hamed N, Hall L J, Kolda C F and Murayama H 2000 A new perspective on cosmic coincidence problems Phys. Rev. Lett. 85 4434 [astro-ph/0005111]
13. Onemli V K and Woodard R P 2004 Quantum effects can render w<-1 on cosmological scales Phys. Rev. D 70 107301 [gr-qc/0406098]
14. Onemli V K and Woodard R P 2002 Super-acceleration from massless, minimally coupled phi**4 Class. Quantum Grav. 19 4607 [gr-qc/0204065]
15. Padilla A 2005 Cosmic acceleration from asymmetric branes Class. Quantum Grav. 22 681 [hep-th/0406157]
16. Padilla A 2005 Infra-red modification of gravity from asymmetric branes Class. Quantum Grav. 22 1087 [hep-th/0410033]
17. Kaloper N and Kiley D 2007 Charting the landscape of modified gravity J. High Energy Phys. JHEP05(2007)045 [hep-th/0703190]
18. Kaloper N 2007 A new dimension hidden in the shadow of a wall Phys. Lett. B 652 92 [hep-th/0702206]
19. Dvali G R, Gabadadze G and Porrati M 2000 4D gravity on a brane in 5D Minkowski space Phys. Lett. B 485 208 [hep-th/0005016]
20. Dvali G R and Gabadadze G 2001 Gravity on a brane in infinite-volume extra space Phys. Rev. D 63 065007 [hep-th/0008054]
21. Deffayet C, Dvali G R and Gabadadze G 2002 Accelerated universe from gravity leaking to extra dimensions Phys. Rev. D 65 044023 [astro-ph/0105068]
22. Lue A 2006 The phenomenology of Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati cosmologies Phys. Rep. 423 1 [astro-ph/0510068]
23. Deffayet C 2001 Cosmology on a brane in Minkowski bulk Phys. Lett. B 502 199 [hep-th/0010186]
24. Capozziello S, Carloni S and Troisi A 2003 Quintessence without scalar fields Preprint astro-ph/0303041
25. Capozziello S, Cardone V F, Carloni S and Troisi A 2003 Curvature quintessence matched with observational data Int. J. Mod. Phys. D 12 1969 [astro-ph/0307018]
26. Carroll S M, Duvvuri V, Trodden M and Turner M S 2004 Is cosmic speed-up due to new gravitational physics? Phys. Rev. D 70 043528 [astro-ph/0306438]
27. Carroll S M 1998 Quintessence and the rest of the world Phys. Rev. Lett. 81 3067 [astro-ph/9806099]
28. Kolda C F and Lyth D H 1999 Quintessential difficulties Phys. Lett. B 458 197 [hep-ph/9811375]
29. Chiba T 1999 Quintessence, the gravitational constant, and gravity Phys. Rev. D 60 083508 [gr-qc/9903094]
30. Frieman J A, Hill C T, Stebbins A and Waga I 1995 Cosmology with ultralight pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons Phys. Rev. Lett. 75 2077 [astro-ph/9505060]
31. Nomura Y, Watari T and Yanagida T 2000 Quintessence axion potential induced by electroweak instanton effects Phys. Lett. B 484 103 [hep-ph/0004182]
32. Kim J E and Nilles H P 2003 A quintessential axion Phys. Lett. B 553 1 [hep-ph/0210402]
33. Choi K 2000 String or M theory axion as a quintessence Phys. Rev. D 62 043509 [hep-ph/9902292]
34. Kaloper N and Sorbo L 2006 Of pNGB Quintessence J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. JCAP04(2006)007 [astro-ph/0511543]
35. Will C M 2005 The confrontation between general relativity and experiment Preprint gr-qc/0510072
36. Will C M 1993 Theory and Experiment in Gravitational Physics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
37. Esposito-Farese G 2005 Tests of alternative theories of gravity SSI2005: Proc. 33rd SLAC Summer Institute on Particle Physics: Gravity in the Quantum World and the Cosmos (Menlo Park, CA) pT025
38. Gorbunov D, Koyama K and Sibiryakov S 2006 More on ghosts in DGP model Phys. Rev. D 73 044016 [hep-th/0512097]
39. Charmousis C, Gregory R, Kaloper N and Padilla A 2006 DGP spectroscopy J. High Energy Phys. JHEP10(2006)066 [hep-th/0604086]
40. Koyama K 2005 Are there ghosts in the self-accelerating brane universe? Phys. Rev. D 72 123511 [hep-th/0503191]
41. Chiba T 2003 1/R gravity and scalar-tensor gravity Phys. Lett. B 575 1 [astro-ph/0307338]
42. Dolgov A D and Kawasaki M 2003 Can modified gravity explain accelerated cosmic expansion? Phys. Lett. B 573 1 [astro-ph/0307285]
43. Amendola L, Polarski D and Tsujikawa S 2007 Are f(R) dark energy models cosmologically viable? Phys. Rev. Lett. 98 131302 [astro-ph/0603703]
44. Amendola L, Charmousis C and Davis S C 2006 Constraints on Gauss-Bonnet gravity in dark energy cosmologies J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. JCAP12(2006)020 [hep-th/0506137]
45. Koivisto T and Mota D F 2007 Cosmology and astrophysical constraints of Gauss-Bonnet dark energy Phys. Lett. B 644 104 [astro-ph/0606078]
46. Koivisto T and Mota D F 2007 Gauss-Bonnet quintessence: background evolution, large scale structure and cosmological constraints Phys. Rev. D 75 023518 [hep-th/0609155]
47. Leith B M and Neupane I P 2007 Gauss-Bonnet cosmologies: crossing the phantom divide and the transition from matter dominance to dark energy J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. JCAP05(2007)019 [hep-th/0702002]
48. Tsujikawa S and Sami M 2007 String-inspired cosmology: late time transition from scaling matter era to dark energy universe caused by a Gauss-Bonnet coupling J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. JCAP01(2007)006 [hep-th/0608178]
49. Binetruy P, Charmousis C, Davis S C and Dufaux J F 2002 Avoidance of naked singularities in dilatonic brane world scenarios with a Gauss-Bonnet term Phys. Lett. B 544 183 [hep-th/0206089]
50. Charmousis C, Davis S C and Dufaux J F 2003 Scalar brane backgrounds in higher order curvature gravity J. High Energy Phys. JHEP12(2003)029 [hep-th/0309083]
51. Sotiriou T P and Barausse E 2007 Post-Newtonian expansion for Gauss-Bonnet gravity Phys. Rev. D 75 084007 [gr-qc/0612065]
52. Esposito-Farese G 2003 Scalar-tensor theories and cosmology and tests of a quintessence-Gauss-Bonnet coupling Preprint gr-qc/0306018
53. Esposito-Farese G 2004 Tests of scalar-tensor gravity AIP Conf. Proc. 736 35 [gr-qc/0409081]
54. Anderson J D, Lau E L, Taylor A H, Dicus D A, Teplitz D C and Teplitz V L 1989 Bounds on dark matter in solar orbit Astrophys. J. 342 539
55. Sereno M and Jetzer P 2006 Solar and stellar system tests of the cosmological constant Phys. Rev. D 73 063004 [astro-ph/0602438]
56. Pitjeva E V 2005 High-precision ephemerides of planets-EPM and determination of some astronomical constants Sol. Syst. Res. 39 176
57. Bertotti B, Iess L and Tortora P 2003 A test of general relativity using radio links with the Cassini spacecraft Nature 425 374
58. Hoskins J K, Newman R D, Spero R and Schultz J 1985 Experimental tests of the gravitational inverse square law for mass separations from 2-cm to 105-cm Phys. Rev. D 32 3084
59. Calcagni G, De Felice A and de Carlos B 2006 Ghost conditions for Gauss-Bonnet cosmologies Nucl. Phys. B 752 404 [hep-th/0604201]
60. Brax P, van de Bruck C, Davis A C, Khoury J and Weltman A 2004 Detecting dark energy in orbit: the cosmological chameleon Phys. Rev. D 70 123518 [astro-ph/0408415]
61. Amendola L 2000 Coupled quintessence Phys. Rev. D 62 043511 [astro-ph/9908023]