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Updated observational constraints on spatially-flat and non-flat $\Lambda$CDM and XCDM cosmological models

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2024-06-05 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study 6 LCDM models, with 4 allowing for non-flat geometry and 3 allowing for a non-unity lensing consistency parameter ALA_L. We also study 6 XCDM models with a dynamical dark energy density X-fluid with equation of state ww. For the non-flat models we use two different primordial power spectra, Planck P(q)P(q) and new P(q)P(q). These models are tested against: Planck 2018 CMB power spectra (P18) and lensing potential power spectrum (lensing), and an updated compilation of BAO, SNIa, H(z)H(z), and fσ8f\sigma_8 data [non-CMB data]. P18 data favor closed geometry for the LCDM and XCDM models and w<1w<-1 (phantom-like dark energy) for the XCDM models while non-CMB data favor open geometry for the LCDM models and closed geometry and w>1w>-1 (quintessence-like dark energy) for the XCDM models. When P18 and non-CMB data are jointly analyzed there is weak evidence for open geometry and moderate evidence for quintessence-like dark energy. Regardless of data used, AL>1A_L>1 is always favored. The XCDM model constraints obtained from CMB data and from non-CMB data are incompatible, ruling out the 3 AL=1A_L = 1 XCDM models at >3σ> 3\sigma. In the 9 models not ruled out, for the P18+lensing+non-CMB data set we find little deviation from flat geometry and moderate deviation from w=1w=-1. In all 6 non-flat models (not ruled out), open geometry is mildly favored, and in all 3 XCDM+ALA_L models (not ruled out) quintessence-like dark energy is moderately favored (by at most 1.6σ1.6 \sigma). In the AL=1A_L = 1 non-flat LCDM cases, we find for P18+lensing+non-CMB data Ωk=0.0009±0.0017\Omega_k = 0.0009 \pm 0.0017 [0.0008±0.00170.0008 \pm 0.0017] for the Planck [new] P(q)P(q) model, favoring open geometry. The flat LCDM model remains the simplest (largely) observationally-consistent cosmological model. Our cosmological parameter constraints obtained for the flat LCDM model (and other models) are the most restrictive results to date (Abridged).

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@article{arxiv.2404.19194,
  title  = {Updated observational constraints on spatially-flat and non-flat $\Lambda$CDM and XCDM cosmological models},
  author = {Javier de Cruz Perez and Chan-Gyung Park and Bharat Ratra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.19194},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

71 pages, 33 figures. Accepted for publication in Physical Review D

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