Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 May 2009
We model the cosmic medium as the mixture of a generalizedChaplygin gas and a pressureless matter component. Within aneo-Newtonian approach we compute the matter power spectrum. The2dFGRS data are used to discriminate between unified models of thedark sector and different models, for which there is separate darkmatter, in addition to that accounted for by the generalizedChaplygin gas. Leaving the corresponding density parameters free,we find that the unified models are strongly disfavored. On theother hand, using unified model priors, the observational data arealso well described, in particular for small and large values ofthe generalized Chaplygin gas parameter α.