$\alpha$-attractor dark energy in view of next-generation cosmological surveys

Abstract

The $\alpha$-attractor inflationary models are nowadays favored by CMB Planck observations. Their similarity with canonical quintessence models motivates the exploration of a common framework that explains both inflation and dark energy. We study the expected constraints that next-generation cosmological experiments will be able to impose for the dark energy $\alpha$-attractor model. We systematically account for the constraining power of SNIa from WFIRST, BAO from DESI and WFIRST, galaxy clustering and shear from LSST and Stage-4 CMB experiments. We assume a tensor-to-scalar ratio, $10^{-3}<r<10^{-2}$, which permits to explore the wide regime sufficiently close, but distinct, to a cosmological constant, without need of fine tunning the initial value of the field. We find that the combination S4CMB + LSST + SNIa will achieve the best results, improving the FoM by almost an order of magnitude; respect to the S4CMB + BAO + SNIa case. We find this is also true for the FoM of the $w_0-w_a$ parameters. Therefore, future surveys will be uniquely able to probe models connecting early and late cosmic acceleration.

V1: 22 pages, 10 figures, comments welcome; V2: minor changes, accepted for publication in JCAP

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