SETI public: Dark energy - dark matter - and black holes: The music of the universe

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Date: Tue Oct 04 2005 - 19:50:29 UTC

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    Paper: astro-ph/0510024

    Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 19:22:16 GMT (16kb)

    Title: Dark energy - dark matter - and black holes: The music of the
    universe

    Authors: Peter L. Biermann (Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy, Bonn,
    Germany)

    Categories: astro-ph

    Comments: 8 pages, Invited review lecture at Carpathian Summer School in
    Physics 2005 (CSSP2005)
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    Here we review the recent evidence for dark energy, dark matter and black
    holes as components of an expanding universe, for the vantage point of a
    non-expert; we speculate on a specific DM particle.

    \\ ( http://arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0510024 , 16kb)

    Paper: astro-ph/0510059
    Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 19:45:26 GMT (105kb)

    Title: Insights into Dark Energy: Interplay Between Theory and Observation

    Authors: Rachel Bean, Sean Carroll and Mark Trodden

    Categories: astro-ph

    Comments: White paper submitted to the Dark Energy Task Force, 5 pages + 2
    pages references, 2 figures
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    The nature of Dark Energy is still very much a mystery, and the combination
    of a variety of experimental tests, sensitive to different potential Dark
    Energy properties, will help elucidate its origins. This white paper briefly
    surveys the array of theoretical approaches to the Dark Energy problem and
    their relation to experimental questions.

    \\ ( http://arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0510059 , 105kb)

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    Paper (*cross-listing*): gr-qc/0509124
    Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 13:37:25 GMT (37kb)

    Title: On globally static and stationary cosmologies with or without a
    cosmological constant and the Dark Energy problem

    Authors: Thomas Buchert

    Categories: gr-qc astro-ph

    Comments: 33 pages, submitted version
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    In the framework of spatially averaged inhomogeneous cosmologies in
    classical
    General Relativity, effective Einstein equations govern the regional and the
    global dynamics of averaged scalar variables of cosmological models. A
    particular solution may be characterized by a cosmic equation of state. In
    this
    paper it is pointed out that a globally static averaged dust model is
    conceivable without employing a compensating cosmological constant. Much in
    the
    spirit of Einstein's original model we discuss consequences for the global,
    but
    also for the regional properties of this cosmology. We then consider the
    wider
    class of globally stationary cosmologies that are conceivable in the
    presented
    framework. All these models are based on exact solutions of the averaged
    Einstein equations and provide examples of cosmologies in an
    out-of-equilibrium
    state, which we characterize by an information-theoretical measure. It is
    shown
    that such cosmologies preserve high-magnitude kinematical fluctuations and
    so
    tend to maintain their global properties. The same is true for a
    $\Lambda-$driven cosmos in such a state despite of exponential expansion. We
    outline relations to inflationary scenarios, and put the Dark Energy problem
    into perspective. Here, it is argued, on the grounds of the discussed
    cosmologies, that a classical explanation of Dark Energy through
    backreaction
    effects is theoretically conceivable, if the matter-dominated Universe
    emerged
    from a non-perturbative state in the vicinity of the stationary solution. We
    also discuss a number of caveats that furnish strong counter arguments in
    the
    framework of structure formation in a perturbed Friedmannian model.

    \\ ( http://arXiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0509124 , 37kb)


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