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Post-reionization HI 21-cm signal: A probe of negative cosmological constant

arXiv:2309.01623 · doi:10.1093/mnras/stad3946

Abstract

In this study, we investigate a cosmological model involving a negative cosmological constant (AdS vacua in the dark energy sector). We consider a quintessence field on top of a negative cosmological constant and study its impact on cosmological evolution and structure formation. We use the power spectrum of the redshifted HI 21 cm brightness temperature maps from the post-reionization epoch as a cosmological probe. The signature of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) on the multipoles of the power spectrum is used to extract measurements of the angular diameter distance and the Hubble parameter . The projected errors on these are then subsequently employed to forecast the constraints on the model parameters () using Markov Chain Monte Carlo techniques. We find that a negative cosmological constant with a phantom dark energy equation of state (EoS) and a higher value of is viable from BAO distance measurements data derived from galaxy samples. We also find that BAO imprints on the 21cm power spectrum obtained from a futuristic SKA-mid like experiment yield a error on a negative cosmological constant and the quintessence dark energy EoS parameters to be and , respectively.

17 pages, 15 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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