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The peculiar motions of galaxies are powerful cosmological probes that trace the growth of structures and the distribution of matter in the universe, providing a means to investigate the nature of dark energy and test gravity on…

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A recently proposed Asymptotically Safe cosmology provides an elegant mechanism towards understanding the nature of dark energy and its associated cosmic coincidence problem. The underlying idea is that the accelerated expansion of the…

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Remarkable development of cosmology is benefited from the increasingly improved measurements of cosmic distances including absolute distances and relative distances. In recent years, however, the emerged cosmological tensions motivate us to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-21 Jing-Zhao Qi , Wei-Hong Hu , Yu Cui , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Context. Explaining the accelerated expansion of the Universe is one of the fundamental challenges in physics today. Cosmography provides information about the evolution of the universe derived from measured distances, assuming only that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 Marek Demianski , Ester Piedipalumbo , Disha Sawant , Lorenzo Amati

Recent astronomical observations indicate that our Universe is undergoing a period of an accelerated expansion. While there are many cosmological models, which explain this phenomenon, the main question remains which is the best one in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Aleksandra Kurek , Marek Szydłowski

Late-time power law expansion has been proposed as an alternative to the standard cosmological model and shown to be consistent with some low-redshift data. We test power law expansion against the standard flat $\Lambda$CDM cosmology using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-10 Daniel L. Shafer

Strong gravitational lensing at the galaxy scale is a valuable tool for various applications in astrophysics and cosmology. The primary uses of galaxy-scale lensing are to study elliptical galaxies' mass structure and evolution, constrain…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-08 A. J. Shajib , G. Vernardos , T. E. Collett , V. Motta , D. Sluse , L. L. R. Williams , P. Saha , S. Birrer , C. Spiniello , T. Treu

In this work, we adopt a cosmological model-independent approach for the first time to test the question of whether the mass density power-law index($\gamma$) of the strong gravitational lensing system(SGLS) evolves with redshift, and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-08 Jian Hu

Analysis of strong gravitational lensing data is important in this era of precision cosmology. The objective of the present study is to directly compare the analysis of strong gravitational lens systems using different lens model software…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-05 Alan T. Lefor , Toshifumi Futamase

Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) model is recently restudied in order to analyze new consequences in gravitation, modifying appropriately the Einstein-Hilbert action. The consequences in EGB cosmology are mainly geometric, with higher order…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-02 Miguel A. García-Aspeitia , A. Hernández-Almada

The use of time-delay gravitational lenses to examine the cosmological expansion introduces a new standard ruler with which to test theoretical models. The sample suitable for this kind of work now includes 12 lens systems, which have thus…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu , Fulvio Melia

We discuss recent evidence for an accelerating Universe from measurements of type Ia supernovae at high redshift, and describe tests of various systematic effects such as extinction and evolution that could be biasing the cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Saurabh Jha , the High-Z Supernova Search Team

Whereas considerable effort has been afforded in understanding the properties of galaxies, a full physical picture, connecting their baryonic and dark-matter content, super-massive black holes, and (metric) theories of gravity, is still…

A powerful test of fundamental physics consists on probing the variability of fundamental constants in Nature. Although they have been measured on Earth laboratories and in our Solar neighbourhood with extremely high precision, it is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-27 Gabriel Rodrigues , Carlos Bengaly

This paper investigates the accelerated cosmic expansion in the late Universe by examining two dark energy models, viscous modified Chaplygin gas (VsMCG) and variable modified Chaplygin gas (VMCG), within loop quantum cosmology alongside…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-12 Rownak Kundu , Ujjal Debnath , Himanshu Chaudhary , G. Mustafa

Shafieloo ea al. firstly proposed the possibility that the current cosmic acceleration (CA) is slowing down. However, this is rather counterintuitive because a slowing down CA cannot be accommodated in most mainstream cosmological models.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-14 Shuang Wang , Yazhou Hu , Miao Li , Nan Li

Debate persists as to whether the cosmological constant $\Lambda$ can directly modify the power of a gravitational lens. With the aim of reestablishing a consensus on this issue, I conduct a comprehensive analysis of gravitational lensing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-03 Luke M. Butcher

Several kinds of astronomical observations, interpreted in the framework of the standard Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmology, have indicated that our universe is dominated by a Cosmological Constant. The dimming of distant Type Ia…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Subir Sarkar

We use higher-redshift gamma-ray burst (GRB), HII starburst galaxy (HIIG), and quasar angular size (QSO-AS) measurements to constrain six spatially flat and non-flat cosmological models. These three sets of cosmological constraints are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-15 Shulei Cao , Joseph Ryan , Narayan Khadka , Bharat Ratra

In this paper, we analyze the potential variation of the gravitational constant $G$ using data from strong gravitational lensing systems and Type Ia supernovae. Testing $G(z)$ parameterizations where $G(z) = G_0(1 + G_1z)$ and $G(z) = G_0(1…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-04 R. F. L. Holanda , M. Ferreira , Javier E. Gonzalez