Scalar field models for an accelerating universe
arXiv:astro-ph/0101016
Abstract
I describe a new class of quintessence+CDM models in which late time scalar field oscillations can give rise to both quintessence and cold dark matter. Additionally, a versatile ansatz for the luminosity distance is used to reconstruct the quintessence equation of state in a model independent manner from observations of high redshift supernovae.
4 pages, 2 figures. To appear in Proceedings of IAU Symposium 201, `New Cosmological Data and the Values of the Fundamental Parameters', Manchester, U.K., August 2000, eds. A.N. Lasenby and A. Wilkinson, Publications of the Astronomy Society of the Pacific
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