English

Emergent Dark Energy, neutrinos and cosmological tensions

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2021-01-15 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

The Phenomenologically Emergent Dark Energy model, a dark energy model with the same number of free parameters as the flat Λ\LambdaCDM, has been proposed as a working example of a minimal model which can avoid the current cosmological tensions. A straightforward question is whether or not the inclusion of massive neutrinos and extra relativistic species may spoil such an appealing phenomenological alternative. We present the bounds on MνM_{\nu} and NeffN_{\rm eff} and comment on the long standing H0H_0 and σ8\sigma_8 tensions within this cosmological framework with a wealth of cosmological observations. Interestingly, we find, at 95%95\% confidence level, and with the most complete set of cosmological observations, Mν0.210.14+0.15M_{\nu}\sim 0.21^{+0.15}_{-0.14} eV and Neff=3.03±0.32N_{\rm eff}= 3.03\pm 0.32 i.e. an indication for a non-zero neutrino mass with a significance above 2σ2\sigma. The well known Hubble constant tension is considerably easened, with a significance always below the 2σ2\sigma level.

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@article{arxiv.2007.02927,
  title  = {Emergent Dark Energy, neutrinos and cosmological tensions},
  author = {Weiqiang Yang and Eleonora Di Valentino and Supriya Pan and Olga Mena},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.02927},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

12 pages, 6 tables and 3 figures. Title has been changed; published version in Physics of the Dark Universe