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Phys. Rev. D 60, 081301(R) (1999) [5 pages]

Prospects for probing the dark energy via supernova distance measurements

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Dragan Huterer
Department of Physics, Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637-1433

Michael S. Turner
Department of Physics, Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637-1433;
Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637-1433;
NASA/Fermilab Astrophysics Center, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510-0500

Received 18 August 1998; revised 6 April 1999; published 30 August 1999

Distance measurements to type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) indicate that the Universe is accelerating and that two-thirds of the critical energy density exists in a dark-energy component with negative pressure. Distance measurements to SNe Ia can be used to distinguish between different possibilities for the dark energy, and if it is an evolving scalar field, to reconstruct the scalar-field potential. We derive the reconstruction equations and address the feasibility of this approach by Monte Carlo simulation.

© 1999 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.60.081301
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.60.081301
PACS:
98.80.Cq, 98.62.Py
 
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