The Equation of State of Tracker Fields

Abstract

We derive the equation of state of tracker fields, which are typical examples of freezing quintessence (quintessence with the equation of state approaching toward -1), taking into account of the late-time departure from the tracker solution due to the nonzero density parameter of dark energy $\Omp$. We calculate the equation of state as a function of $\Omp$ for constant $\Gamma =VV"/(V^{\prime }{)}^2$ (during matter era) models. The derived equation of state contains a single parameter, $w_{(0)}$, which parametrizes the equation of state during the matter-dominated epoch. We derive observational constraints on $w_{(0)}$ and find that observational data are consistent with the cosmological constant: $-1.11< \wzero< -0.96 (1 σ)$.

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