Momentum transfer models of interacting dark energy

Abstract

We consider two models of interacting dark energy, both of which interact only through momentum exchange. One is a phenomenological one-parameter extension to wCDM, and the other is a coupled quintessence model described by a Lagrangian formalism. Using a variety of high and low redshift data sets, we perform a global fitting of cosmological parameters and compare to ΛCDM, uncoupled quintessence, and wCDM. We find that the models are competitive with ΛCDM, even obtaining a better fit when certain data sets are included.