Observational constraints on Modified Chaplygin Gas from Large Scale Structure

Abstract

We study cosmological models with modified Chaplygin gas (in short, MCG) to determine observational constraints on its EoS parameters. The observational data of the background and the growth tests are employed. The background test data namely, H(z)-z data, CMB shift parameter, Baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO) peak parameter, SN Ia data are considered to study the dynamical aspects of the universe. The growth test data we employ here consists of the linear growth function for the large scale structures of the universe, models are explored assuming MCG as a candidate for dark energy. Considering the observational growth data for a given range of redshift from the Wiggle-Z measurements and rms mass fluctuations from Ly-$α$ measurements, cosmological models are analyzed numerically to determine constraints on the MCG parameters. In this case, the Wang-Steinhardt ansatz for the growth index $γ$ and growth function $f$ (defined as $f=Ω_{m}^γ (a)$) are also taken into account for the numerical analysis. The best-fit values of the equation of state parameters obtained here are used to study the variation of the growth function ($f$), growth index ($γ$), equation of state parameter ($ω$), squared sound speed $c^2_{s}$ and deceleration parameter with redshift. The observational constraints on the MCG parameters obtained here are then compared with those of the GCG model for viable cosmology. It is noted that MCG models satisfactorily accommodate an accelerating phase followed by a matter dominated phase of the universe. The permitted range of values of the EoS parameters and the associated parameters ($f$, $γ$, $ω$, $Ω$, $c^2_{s}$, $q$) are compared with those obtained earlier using other observations.