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The expansion history of the Universe can be constrained in a cosmology-independent way by measuring the differential age evolution of cosmic chronometers. This yields a measurement of the Hubble parameter $H(z)$ as a function of redshift.…

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Recently, the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) measurements from the DESI survey have suggested hints of dynamical dark energy, challenging the standard $\Lambda $CDM model. In this work, we adopt an improved inverse distance ladder…

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We investigate in detail some popular cosmological models in light of the latest observational data, including the Union2.1 supernovae compilation, the baryon acoustic oscillation measurements from the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey, the cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Ke Shi , Yongfeng Huang , Tan Lu

We consider a varieties of quintessence scalar field models in a homogeneous and isotropic geometry of the universe with zero spatial curvature aiming to provide stringent constraints using a series of cosmological data sets, namely, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-24 Weiqiang Yang , M. Shahalam , Barun Pal , Supriya Pan , Anzhong Wang

Several cosmological observations (e.g., Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), Supernovae Type Ia, and local distance ladder measurements such as Cepheids) have been used to measure the global expansion rate of the Universe, i.e., the Hubble…

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We present a new algorithm that can reconstruct the full distributions of metric components within the class of spherically symmetric dust universes that may include a cosmological constant. The algorithm is capable of confronting this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-07 Hertzog L. Bester , Julien Larena , Nigel T. Bishop

The possibility of determining cosmological parameters on the basis of a wide set of observational data including the Abell-ACO cluster power spectrum and mass function, peculiar velocities of galaxies, the distribution of Ly-$\alpha$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Novosyadlyj , R. Durrer , S. Gottloeber , V. N. Lukash , S. Apunevych

We investigate a specific gravity model of the form $f(R, L_m) = \alpha R + L_m^{\beta} + \gamma$, where the nonlinear dependence on the matter Lagrangian $L_m$ introduces an effective curvature-matter interaction, leading to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 G. K. Goswami , J. P. Saini

The tensions between the values of Hubble constant obtained from the early and the late Universe data pose a significant challenge to modern cosmology. Possible modifications of the flat homogeneous isotropic cosmological {\Lambda}CDM model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-14 S. L. Parnovsky

The standard model of cosmology with nearly Gaussian, isotropic, scale invariant and adiabatic initial conditions describes the cosmological observations well. However, the study of any deviation from the mentioned conditions will open up a…

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The discussion of cosmological parameters used to be a source of embarrassment to cosmologists. Today, measurements of the cosmological parameters are leading the way into the era of precision cosmology. The CMB temperature is measured to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Michael S. Turner

We use the Simon, Verde, & Jimenez (2005) determination of the redshift dependence of the Hubble parameter to constrain cosmological parameters in three dark energy cosmological models. We consider the standard $\Lambda$CDM model, the XCDM…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Lado Samushia , Bharat Ratra

We consider a cosmology in which a spherically symmetric large scale inhomogeneous enhancement or a void are described by an inhomogeneous metric and Einstein's gravitational equations. For a flat matter dominated universe the inhomogeneous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. W. Moffat

We measure a value for the cosmic expansion of $H(z) = 89 \pm 23$(stat) $\pm$ 44(syst) km s$^{-1}$ Mpc$^{-1}$ at a redshift of $z \simeq 0.47$ based on the differential age technique. This technique, also known as cosmic chronometers, uses…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-22 A. L. Ratsimbazafy , S. I. Loubser , S. M. Crawford , C. M. Cress , B. A. Bassett , R. C. Nichol , P. Väisänen

A degeneracy in strong lens model is shown analytically. The observed time delays and quasar image positions might {\it not} uniquely determine the concentration and the extent of the lens galaxy halo mass distribution. Simply hardwiring…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 HongSheng Zhao , Bo Qin

We use cosmography to present constraints on the kinematics of the Universe, without postulating any underlying theoretical model. To this end, we use a Monte Carlo Markov Chain analysis to perform comparisons to the supernova Ia Union 2…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Alejandro Aviles , Christine Gruber , Orlando Luongo , Hernando Quevedo

A major issue in contemporary cosmology is the persistent discrepancy, known as the Hubble tension, between the Hubble constant ($H_0$) estimates from local measurements and those inferred from early-Universe observations under the standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-29 Surajit Kalita , Akhil Uniyal , Tomasz Bulik , Yosuke Mizuno

Cut-sky orthogonal mode analyses of the COBE-DMR 53 and 90 GHz sky maps are used to determine the normalization of a variety of open cosmogonical models based on the cold dark matter scenario. To constrain the allowed cosmological-parameter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 K. M. Gorski , B. Ratra , R. Stompor , N. Sugiyama , A. J. Banday

Astrophysical observations provide a picture of the universe as a 4-dim homogeneous and isotropic flat space-time dominated by an unknown form of dark energy. To achieve such a cosmology one has to consider in the early universe an…

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