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A&A
Volume 683, March 2024
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Article Number | A83 | |
Number of page(s) | 11 | |
Section | Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies) | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202348327 | |
Published online | 08 March 2024 |
Dark energy as a critical period in binary motion: Bounds from multi-scale binaries
1
Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), Ruth-Moufang-Strasse 1, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
e-mail: benidav@post.bgu.ac.il
2
Kavli Institute of Cosmology (KICC), University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK
3
Bahamas Advanced Study Institute and Conferences, 4A Ocean Heights, Hill View Circle, Stella Maris, Long Island, The Bahamas
4
Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
Received:
19
October
2023
Accepted:
27
December
2023
We study the two-body problem in the context of both dark energy and post-Newtonian modifications. In this unified framework, we demonstrate that dark energy plays the role of a critical period with TΛ = 2π/c√Λ ≈ 60 Gyr. We also show that the ratio between the orbital and critical periods naturally emerges from the Kretschmann scalar, which is a quadratic curvature invariant characterizing all binary systems effectively represented by de Sitter-Schwarzschild space-time. The suitability of a binary system in constraining dark energy is determined by the ratio between its Keplerian orbital period, TK, and the critical period, TΛ. Systems with TK ≈ TΛ are optimal for constraining the cosmological constant, Λ, such as the Local Group and the Virgo Cluster. Systems with TK ≪ TΛ are dominated by attractive gravity (which are best suited for studying modified gravity corrections). Systems with TK ≫ TΛ are dominated by repulsive dark energy and can thus be used to constrain Λ from below. We used our unified framework of post-Newtonian and dark-energy modifications to calculate the precession of bounded and unbounded astrophysical systems and infer constraints on Λ from them. We analyzed pulsars, the solar system, S stars around Sgr A*, the Local Group, and the Virgo Cluster, having orbital periods of days to gigayears. Our results reveal that the upper bound on the cosmological constant decreases when the orbital period of the system increases, emphasizing that Λ is a critical period in binary motion.
Key words: celestial mechanics / binaries: general / galaxies: kinematics and dynamics / dark energy
© The Authors 2024
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