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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES
Volume 177, Issue 1, Pages 1-13Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/587744
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cosmology : theory; dark matter; gravitation
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- STFC [PP/D000890/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [PP/D000890/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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We propose that galactic dark matter can be described by a nonuniform dark energy fluid. The underlying field is a decaying vector field, which might corresponds to a photon-like but massive particle of 4 degrees of dynamical freedom. We propose a very general Lagrangian for this vector field. The model includes a continuous spectrum of plausible gravity theories, for example, quintessence, f(R), Einstein-Aether, MOND, TeVeS, BSTV, V-Lambda theories, and the inflaton scalar field as special cases. We study in detail a special class of models with a fixed norm of the timelike vector field in the physical metric, which includes a nonlinear K-4 term and a Ricci scalar term. We derive the Einstein equations in the perturbed form, which are needed for simulating structure growth in an FRW universe to test such theories. A special case of the model V-Lambda shows promise of resembling the Lambda CDM cosmology. We show that the vector field has the effect of a nonuniform dark fluid, which resembles dark matter in galaxies and dark energy in the late universe.
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