Published September 15, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Imprint of the interaction between dark sectors in large scale cosmic microwave background anisotropies

  • 1. Department of Physics, Fudan University, 200433 Shanghai (China)
  • 2. Key Laboratory for Research in Galaxies and Cosmology, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Nandan Road 80, Shanghai, 200030 (China)

Description

Dark energy interacting with dark matter is a promising model to solve the cosmic coincidence problem. We study the signature of such interaction on large scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies. Based on the detail analysis in perturbation equations of dark energy and dark matter when they are in interaction, we find that the large scale CMB, especially the late integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect, is a useful tool to measure the coupling between dark sectors. We also discuss the possibility to detect the coupling by cross-correlating CMB maps with tracers of the large scale structure. We finally perform the global fitting to constrain the coupling by using the CMB power spectrum data together with other observational data. We find that in the 1σ range, the constrained coupling between dark sectors can solve the coincidence problem.

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
80
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
p. 063530-063530.14
ISSN
0556-2821
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