Evolution of spherical overdensity in Chaplygin gas model

• Published in: arXiv.org 2021-06
• Main Authors: Amin Rezaei Akbarieh, Ahmadi, Mohammad, Izadi, Yousef, Aslmarand, Shahabeddin M, Miller, Warner A
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Astronomical models; Chaplygin gas; Cosmology; Dark energy; Equivalence; Evolution; Flux density; Parameters; Quintessence (cosmology); Scalars; Tensors
• ISSN: 2331-8422
• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2106.00900

Even though many scalar field models of dark energy have been considered in the literature, there is another interesting class of dark energy models involving a fluid known as a Chaplygin gas. In addition to describing the dark energy, both scalar-tensor model and the Chaplygin gas model are suitable candidates for explaining the spherical cosmological collapse. One of the most well-known scalar field models is the quintessence model, which was first introduced to explain an accelerating expanding universe. Using a special form of the quintessence model that is equivalent to Chaplygin gas, we describe evolution of a spherical collapse. We study the cosmological properties of the quintessence field with a special potential. In addition to the quintessence model, that can be converted into a Chaplygin gas model in a particular case, we claim that the fixed-potential tachyonic model is equivalent to the Chaplygin gas model. In this work, we obtain the spherical collapse parameters: the virialized overdensity parameters, radius, the energy density at the turnaround moment, etc. We compare the results of the proposed model with the standard model of cosmology and the Einstein-de Sitter model. We show that the formation of the large-scale structures within the framework of a Chaplygin gas model happens earlier than predicted in the standard model.