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We perform a cosmographic analysis using several cosmological observables such as the luminosity distance moduli, the volume distance, the angular diameter distance and the Hubble parameter. These quantities are determined using different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Jun-Qing Xia , Vincenzo Vitagliano , Stefano Liberati , Matteo Viel

Recent observations from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI 2025) indicate a weakening of cosmic acceleration at low redshifts $z < 1$, with effective dark energy equation of state parameters $w_0 > -1$ and $w_a < 0$. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-28 John W. Moffat

A mildly inhomogeneous universe with a cosmological constant may look like it contains evolving dark energy. We show that could be the case by modelling the inhomogeneities and their effects in three different ways: as clumped matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-29 Yonadav Barry Ginat , Pedro G. Ferreira

The Lambda-Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) model agrees with most of the cosmological observations, but has some hindrances from observed data at smaller scales such as galaxies. Recently, Berezhiani and Khoury (2015) proposed a new theory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-22 Shreya Banerjee , Sayantani Bera , David F. Mota

The accelerated expansion of the Universe is one of the main discoveries of the past decades, indicating the presence of an unknown component: the dark energy. Evidence of its presence is being gathered by a succession of observational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-13 V. Motta , Miguel A. García-Aspeitia , A. Hernández-Almada , J. Magaña , Tomás Verdugo

This study explores the impact of cosmic curvature on structure formation through general relativistic first-order perturbation theory. We analyze continuity and Euler equations, incorporating cosmic curvature into Einstein equations.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-29 Bikash R. Dinda

In this paper, observational constraints on the cosmic equation of state of dark energy ($p = w \rho$) have been investigated using gravitational lensing statistics. A likelihood analysis of the lens surveys has been carried out to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Abha Dev , Deepak Jain , N. Panchapakesan , S. Mahajan , V. B. Bhatia

Cosmology is living through fascinating times, where new observations from ground and space telescopes are questioning the established paradigm, the so-called Lambda Cold Dark Matter model. The particle nature of Dark Matter is severely…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 Juan Garcia-Bellido

We use the effective field theory of dark energy to explore the space of modified gravity models which are capable of driving the present cosmic acceleration. We identify five universal functions of cosmic time that are enough to describe a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Federico Piazza , Heinrich Steigerwald , Christian Marinoni

Exact solutions of the perturbations equations in the magnetized LambdaCDM scenario are presented. They apply during the dark ages and, more specifically, after the baryons are freed from the drag of the photons. The magnetized growth rate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-25 Massimo Giovannini

Reconstructing the expansion history of the Universe from type Ia supernovae data, we fit the growth rate measurements and put model-independent constraints on some key cosmological parameters, namely, $\Omega_\mathrm{m},\gamma$, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-10 Benjamin L'Huillier , Arman Shafieloo , Hyungjin Kim

Given the persistence of various tensions in the "Cosmic Concordance" -- such as the "Hubble Tension", and possible departures from LambdaCDM time evolution -- seen from combinations of complementary data sets (e.g., Cosmic Microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-19 Brett Bochner , Aiden Jin

We investigate the influence of dark energy on structure formation, within five different cosmological models, namely a concordance $\Lambda$CDM model, two models with dynamical dark energy, viewed as a quintessence scalar field (using a RP…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Cristiano De Boni , Klaus Dolag , Stefano Ettori , Lauro Moscardini , Valeria Pettorino , Carlo Baccigalupi

We use Monte Carlo techniques to simulate the ability of future large high-redshift galaxy surveys to measure the temporal evolution of the dark energy equation-of-state w(z), using the baryonic acoustic oscillations in the clustering power…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Karl Glazebrook , Chris Blake

We investigate the evolution of a universe with a decaying cosmological term (vacuum energy) that is assumed to be a function of the scale factor. In this model, while the cosmological term increases to the early universe, the radiation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Riou Nakamura , Masa-aki Hashimoto , Kiyotomo Ichiki

Measurements of time delays between multiple quasar images produced by strong lensing are reaching a sensitivity that makes them a promising cosmological probe. Future surveys will provide significantly more measurements, reaching…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-20 Banafshe Shiralilou , Matteo Martinelli , Georgios Papadomanolakis , Simone Peirone , Fabrizio Renzi , Alessandra Silvestri

In a previous work it was shown that by considering the quantum nature of the gravitational field mediator, it is possible to introduce the momentum energy of the graviton into the Einstein equations as an effective cosmological constant.…

General Physics · Physics 2022-03-16 Tonatiuh Matos , Luis Osvaldo Tellez-Tovar

The concordance of the $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model in light of current observations has been the subject of an intense debate in recent months. The 2018 Planck Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature anisotropy power spectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-02 Sunny Vagnozzi , Eleonora Di Valentino , Stefano Gariazzo , Alessandro Melchiorri , Olga Mena , Joseph Silk

Non-negligible dark energy density at high redshifts would indicate dark energy physics distinct from a cosmological constant or ``reasonable'' canonical scalar fields. Such dark energy can be constrained tightly through investigation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Eric V. Linder

We perform an empirical consistency test of General Relativity/dark energy by disentangling expansion history and growth of structure constraints. We replace each late-universe parameter that describes the behavior of dark energy with two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-25 José Luis Bernal , Licia Verde , Antonio J. Cuesta