Constraints on a Vacuum Energy from Both SNIa and CMB Temperature Observations

• Main Authors: Riou Nakamura, E. P. Berni Ann Thushari, Mikio Ikeda, Masa-Aki Hashimoto
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hindawi Limited 2012-01-01
• Series: Advances in Astronomy
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/528243

We investigate the cosmic thermal evolution with a vacuum energy which decays into photon at the low redshift. We assume that the vacuum energy is a function of the scale factor that increases toward the early universe. We put on the constraints using recent observations of both type Ia supernovae (SNIa) by Union-2 compilation and the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature at the range of the redshift 0.01<z<3. From SNIa, we find that the effects of a decaying vacuum energy on the cosmic expansion rate should be very small but could be possible for z<1.5. On the other hand, we obtain the severe constraints for parameters from the CMB temperature observations. Although the temperature can be still lower than the case of the standard cosmological model, it should only affect the thermal evolution at the early epoch.