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Over the last few years, a large family of cosmological attractor models has been discovered, which can successfully match the latest inflation-related observational data. Many of these models can also describe a small cosmological constant…

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We consider three `four-parameters' dark energy equations of state allowing fast transition from the matter dominated decelerating phase to the current accelerating phase. The fast-varying nature of the dark energy models is quantified by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-17 Rafael J. F. Marcondes , Supriya Pan

We propose a novel dark-energy equation-of-state parametrization, with a single parameter $\eta$ that quantifies the deviation from $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. We first confront the scenario with various datasets, from Hubble function (OHD),…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-04 J. K. Singh , Preeti Singh , Emmanuel N. Saridakis , Shynaray Myrzakul , Harshna Balhara

Motivated by the current status of the cosmological observations and significant tensions in the estimated values of some key parameters assuming the standard $\Lambda$CDM model, we propose a simple but radical phenomenological emergent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-14 Xiaolei Li , Arman Shafieloo

We present logistic dark energy model (LDEM), where the dark energy density follows a logistic function for the scale factor. The equation of state parameter of dark energy ($w_D$) transitioned from $-1$ in the distant past to its current…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-27 Sarath Nelleri , Gopi Krishna , Navaneeth Poonthottathil

Recently the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Collaboration presented evidence that the equation of state $w$ of the dark energy is varying, or $w \simeq -0.948$ if it is constant. In either case, the dark energy cannot be due to a cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-23 Hoang Nhan Luu , Yu-Cheng Qiu , S. -H. Henry Tye

A cosmological constant, Lambda, is the most natural candidate to explain the origin of the dark energy (DE) component in the Universe. However, due to experimental evidence that the equation of state (EOS) of the DE could be evolving with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Joan Sola , Hrvoje Stefancic

A huge amount of good quality astrophysical data converges towards the picture of a spatially flat universe undergoing the today observed phase of accelerated expansion. This new observational trend is commonly addressed as Precision…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 S. Capozziello

The first and second year results of DESI provide consistent evidence that dark energy may not be quantum vacuum energy ($\Lambda$). If true, this would be an extraordinary development in the 25-year quest to understand cosmic acceleration.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-17 Matilde L. Abreu , Michael S. Turner

Dark energy, the enigmatic force driving the accelerated cosmic expansion of the universe, is conventionally described as a cosmological constant in the standard $\Lambda$CDM model. However, measurements from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-26 Axel de la Macorra , Jose Agustin Lozano Torres

A flat Friedman-Roberson-Walker universe dominated by a cosmological constant ($\Lambda$) and cold dark matter (CDM) has been the working model preferred by cosmologists since the discovery of cosmic acceleration. However, tensions of…

Models of dark energy are conveniently characterized by the equation-of-state parameter w=p/\rho, where \rho is the energy density and p is the pressure. Imposing the Dominant Energy Condition, which guarantees stability of the theory,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Sean M. Carroll , Mark Hoffman , Mark Trodden

Early dark energy (EDE) that behaves like a cosmological constant at early times (redshifts $z\gtrsim3000$) and then dilutes away like radiation or faster at later times can solve the Hubble tension. In these models, the sound horizon at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 Vivian Poulin , Tristan L. Smith , Tanvi Karwal , Marc Kamionkowski

Gaussian processes (GP) provide an elegant and model-independent method for extracting cosmological information from the observational data. In this work, we employ GP to perform a joint analysis by using the geometrical cosmological probes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-11 Alexander Bonilla , Suresh Kumar , Rafael C. Nunes

We propose a new approach to the consistency test of dark energy models with observations. To test a category of dark energy models, we suggest introducing a characteristic Q(z) that in general varies with the redshift z but in those models…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-25 Je-An Gu , Chien-Wen Chen , Pisin Chen

Holographic dark energy (HDE) describes the vacuum energy in a cosmic IR region whose total energy saturates the limit of avoiding the collapse into a black hole. HDE predicts that the dark energy equation of the state transiting from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 Wei-Ming Dai , Yin-Zhe Ma , Hong-Jian He

We compile an updated list of 38 measurements of the Hubble parameter $H(z)$ between redshifts $0.07 \leq z \leq 2.36$ and use them to place constraints on model parameters of constant and time-varying dark energy cosmological models, both…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Omer Farooq , Foram Madiyar , Sara Crandall , Bharat Ratra

In this work, we study a class of early dark energy (EDE) models, in which, unlike in standard DE models, a substantial amount of DE exists in the matter-dominated era, self-consistently including DE perturbations. Our analysis shows that,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Ujjaini Alam

We study the influence of relevant quantities, including the density of dark energy (DE), to the predicted Hubble outflow around a system of galaxies. In particular, we are interested in the difference between two models: 1) The standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-06 Joonas Saaristo , Pekka Teerikorpi

We investigate the dynamical properties of dark energy through a detailed analysis of its equation of state parameter $w(z)$ as a function of redshift. We derive a general expression for $w(z)$ from the Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-29 J. W. Moffat , E. J. Thompson