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Planck data provide precise constraints on cosmological parameters when assuming the base $\Lambda$CDM model, including a $0.17\%$ measurement of the age of the Universe, $t_0=13.797 \pm 0.023\,{\rm Gyr}$. However, the persistence of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-28 Michael Boylan-Kolchin , Daniel R. Weisz

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) and the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) measurements claim that the dark energy equation of state $w \ne -1$. This observation can be explained by the axion Dark Energy (aDE) model of an ultralight…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-27 Hoang Nhan Luu , Yu-Cheng Qiu , S. -H. Henry Tye

In standard cosmologies, dark energy interacts only gravitationally with dark matter. There could be a non-gravitational interaction in the dark sector, leading to changes in the effective DE equation of state, in the redshift dependence of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-13 Timothy Clemson , Kazuya Koyama , Gong-Bo Zhao , Roy Maartens , Jussi Väliviita

It is shown that in the cosmological models based on a vacuum energy decaying as a^{-2}, where a is the scale factor of the universe, the fate of the universe in regard to whether it will collapse in future or expand forever is determined…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Murat Özer

In this study, cosmological models are considered, where dark matter and dark energy are coupled and may exchange energy through non-gravitational interactions with one other. These interacting dark energy (IDE) models have previously been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-23 Marcel A. van der Westhuizen , Amare Abebe

We present constraints on decaying-particle models in which an enhanced relativistic density allows an $\Omega=1$ Cold Dark Matter universe to be reconciled with acceptable values for the Hubble constant. Such models may contain extra…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. J. McNally , J. A. Peacock

Several models have been proposed to explain the dark energy that is causing universe expansion to accelerate. Here the acceleration predicted by the Holographic Dark Information Energy (HDIE) model is compared to the acceleration that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Michael Paul Gough

We classify the future of the universe for general cosmological models including matter and dark energy. If the equation of state of dark energy is less then -1, the age of the universe becomes finite. We compute the rest of the age of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Takeshi Chiba , Ryuichi Takahashi , Naoshi Sugiyama

An impressive amount of different astrophysical data converges towards the picture of a spatially flat universe undergoing a today phase of accelerated expansion. The nature of the dark energy dominating the energy content of the universe…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Capozziello , V. F. Cardone , M. Funaro , S. Andreon

We study a phenomenological dark energy model which is rooted in the Veneziano ghost of QCD. In this dark energy model, the energy density of dark energy is proportional to Hubble parameter and the proportional coefficient is of the order…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Rong-Gen Cai , Qiping Su , Zhong-Liang Tuo , Hong-Bo Zhang

Despite overwhelming observational evidence for dark matter, we still have no evidence of direct detection. Consequently, our knowledge about dark matter is limited, for example, we do not know if dark matter is a stable particle or if it…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-30 Earl Lester , Krzysztof Bolejko

The evolution of dark energy density is a crucial quantity in understanding the nature of dark energy. Often, the quantity is described by the so-called equation of state, that is the ratio of dark energy pressure to its density. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-14 Ahmad Mehrabi , Maryam Vazirnia

We investigate the behaviour of dark energy using the recently released supernova data of Riess et al ~(2004) and a model independent parameterization for dark energy (DE). We find that, if no priors are imposed on $\Omega_{0m}$ and $h$, DE…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ujjaini Alam , Varun Sahni , A. A. Starobinsky

In this work we investigate the spherical collapse model in flat FRW dark energy universes. We consider the Holographic Dark Energy (HDE) model as a dynamical dark energy scenario with a slowly time-varying equation-of-state (EoS) parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-01-27 Tayebe Naderi , Mohammad Malekjani , Francesco Pace

In the context of a homogeneous and isotropic universe, we consider the degeneracy condition at the background level between two scenarios in which processes out of equilibrium are possible; this consideration allows us to deviate from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-05 Gilberto Aguilar-Pérez , Ana A. Avilez-López , Miguel Cruz

Early dark energy (EDE) is one of the most promising possibilities in order to resolve the Hubble tension: the discrepancy between early and late-Universe measurements of the Hubble constant. In this paper we propose a model of a scalar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-12 Lucy Brissenden , Konstantinos Dimopoulos , Samuel Sánchez López

In the original holographic dark energy (HDE) model, the dark energy density is proposed to be $\rho_{de} = 3c^2M^2_{pl}L^{-2}$, with $c$ is a dimensionless constant characterizing the properties of the HDE. In this work, we propose the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-25 Zhenhui Zhang , Miao Li , Xiao-Dong Li , Shuang Wang , Wen-Shuai Zhang

We analyze the interaction between Dark Energy and Dark Matter from a thermodynamical perspective. By assuming they have different temperatures, we study the possibility of occurring a decay from Dark Matter into Dark Energy, characterized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-26 S. H. Pereira , J. F. Jesus

We determine the Hubble expansion and the general cosmic perturbations equations for a general system consisting of self-conserved matter and self-conserved dark energy (DE). While at the background level the two components are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-13 Adria Gomez-Valent , Elahe Karimkhani , Joan Sola

Dark energy is usually parametrized as a perfect fluid with negative pressure and a certain equation of state. Besides, it is supposed to interact very weakly with the rest of the components of the universe and, as a consequence, there is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jose Beltran Jimenez , Antonio L. Maroto