Comparing the scalar-field dark energy models with recent observations

Abstract

We investigate the general properties of a class of scalar-field dark energy models (i.e., $\varphi$CDM models) which behave like cosmological trackers at early times. Particularly, we choose three $\varphi$CDM models with typical potentials, i.e., $V(\varphi )\propto {\varphi }^{-\alpha }$ (inverse power-law (IPL) model), $V(\varphi )\propto {\coth }^{\alpha }\varphi$ (L-model) and $V(\varphi )\propto \cosh (\alpha \varphi )$ (Oscillatory tracker model), where the latter two models are based on the $\alpha$-attractors originated from the study of inflation. These models, which reduce to the $\Lambda$CDM model with $\alpha \to 0$, are studied and compared with the recent observations, including the Pantheon sample of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) measurements extracted from 6dFGS, BOSS and eBOSS, as well as the temperature and polarization anisotropy power spectra data of cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) from Planck 2018 results. The observational constraints from the combining sample (SNe Ia + BAO + CMB) indicate that none of the three $\varphi$CDM models exclude the $\Lambda$CDM model at $68.3\%$ confidence level. We find that the CMB anisotropy data have obvious advantages in constraining the dark energy models compared with other cosmological probes, which is particularly evident in the L-model. Furthermore, we apply the Bayesian evidence to compare the $\varphi$CDM models and the $\Lambda$CDM model with the analysis of the combining sample. The concordance $\Lambda$CDM model is still the most supported one. In addition, among the three $\varphi$CDM models, the IPL model is the most competitive one, while the L-model/Oscillatory tacker model is moderately/strongly disfavored.

arXiv comment18 pages, 4 figures, 1 table; Accepted for publication in Physics of the Dark Universe (PDU)

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