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In this work, we study a special form of Horndeski solutions, viz. quartic "square-root" Horndeski black hole immersed in a perfect-fluid dark-matter halo, by examining its thermodynamics, null geodesic shape, optical shadow, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-23 Mrinnoy M. Gohain , Kalyan Bhuyan

The growing wealth of cosmological observations places increasingly more stringent constraints on dark energy and alternative gravity models. Particularly successful in efficiently probing the vast model space has been the effective field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-28 Lucas Lombriser , Charles Dalang , Joe Kennedy , Andy Taylor

There are many kinds of models which describe the dynamics of dark energy (DE). Among all we adopt an equation of state (EoS) which varies as a function of time. We adopt Markov Chain Monte Carlo method to constrain the five parameters of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 R. Ichimasa , E. P. B. A. Thushari , M. Hashimoto

We investigate theoretical and observational aspects of a time-dependent parameterization for the dark energy equation of state (EoS) $w(z)$, which is a well behaved function of the redshift $z$ over the entire cosmological evolution, i.e.,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 E. M. Barboza , J. S. Alcaniz , B. Santos

We study spherically symmetric solutions with a scalar field in the shift-symmetric subclass of the Horndeski theory. Constructing an effective energy-momentum tensor of the scalar field based on the two-fluid model, we decompose the scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-13 Jiaming Shi , Taishi Katsuragawa , Taotao Qiu

We revisit the dark degeneracy that arises from the Einstein equations relating geometry to the total cosmic substratum but not resolving its individual components separately. We establish the explicit conditions for the dark degeneracy in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-17 Rodrigo von Marttens , Lucas Lombriser , Martin Kunz , Valerio Marra , Luciano Casarini , Jailson Alcaniz

We present an updated reconstruction of the DE equation of state (EoS), $w(a)$, employing the newly released DESI DR2 Baryon Acoustic Oscillation data. This analysis constrains the cosmological scenarios influenced by different models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 Saddam Hussain , Simran Arora , Anzhong Wang , Ben Rose

We investigate how strongly late-time inferences about DE dynamics depend on the functional prior used to represent the expansion history. Using identical late-time combinations of CC, DESI BAO measurements, the Pantheon+ SN1a sample, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 Özgür Akarsu , Maria Caruana , Konstantinos F. Dialektopoulos , Luis A. Escamilla , Emre O. Kahya , Jackson Levi Said

This paper rigorously examines the potential of the $f(T, \mathcal{T})$ theory as a promising framework for understanding the dark sector of the universe, particularly in relation to cosmic acceleration. The $f(T, \mathcal{T})$ theory…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-28 M. Koussour , O. Donmez , S. Bekov , A. Syzdykova , S. Muminov , A. I. Ashirova

This article reviews scalar-tensor theories characterized by a Lagrangian that, despite the presence of second order derivatives, contain a single scalar degree of freedom. These theories, known as Degenerate Higher-Order Scalar-Tensor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-17 David Langlois

The paper brings a novel approach to unification of dark matter and dark energy in terms of a cosmic fluid. A model is introduced in which the cosmic fluid speed of sound squared is defined as a function of its equation of state (EoS)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-06 Dalibor Perkovic , Hrvoje Stefancic

We present constraints on Horndeski gravity from a combined analysis of cosmic shear, galaxy-galaxy lensing and galaxy clustering from $450\,\mathrm{deg}^2$ of the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) and the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey.…

This paper constraints dynamic dark energy equation of state (EoS) parameters using the type Ia supernovae from Union 2.1 dataset. The paper also discusses the dependency of dynamic dark energy EoS parameters on the chosen or assumed value…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Syed Faisal ur Rahman

In present research, we construct Kaniadakis holographic dark energy (KHDE) model within a non-flat Universe by considering the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) metric with open and closed spatial geometries. We therefore investigate cosmic…

General Physics · Physics 2022-04-19 Umesh Kumar Sharma , Vipin Chandra Dubey , A. H. Ziaie , H. Moradpour

The behavior of the dark energy equation of state (EOS) is crucial in distinguishing different cosmological models. With a model independent approach, we constrain the possible evolution of the dark energy EOS. Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-20 Shi Qi , Fa-Yin Wang , Tan Lu

We have investigated dynamical evolution of electromagnetic perturbation in a scalar hairy black hole spacetime, which belongs to solutions in Horndeski theory with a logarithmic cubic term. Our results show that the parameter $\alpha$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-24 Qiong Fang , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

This work proposes a geometric-statistical reinterpretation of the dark sector, grounded in a discrete spacetime framework composed of non-material spatial units termed hodons. Unlike particle-based dark matter models, hodons are…

General Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Arkady Bolotin

We study the equations for the evolution of cosmological perturbations in $f\left(\mathcal{R}\right)$ and conclude that this modified gravity model can be expressed as a dark energy fluid at background and linearised perturbation order. By…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 R. A. Battye , B. Bolliet , J. A. Pearson

The gravitational-wave event GW170817 from a binary neutron star merger together with the electromagnetic counterpart showed that the speed of gravitational waves $c_t$ is very close to that of light for the redshift $z<0.009$. This places…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-07 Ryotaro Kase , Shinji Tsujikawa

In this paper we study the evolution of cosmological perturbations in the presence of dynamical dark energy, and revisit the issue of dark energy perturbations. For a generally parameterized equation of state (EoS) such as w_D(z) =…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Mingzhe Li , Yifu Cai , Hong Li , Robert Brandenberger , Xinmin Zhang